4-year-old’s body found in Las Vegas freezer after sister slips note to teacher
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The little girl slipped her teacher a note written by her mom, which said she was being held against her will and did not know the location of her son.
A Las Vegas man has been charged after police found the body of a four-year-old boy in a freezer after his sibling passed a note to her teacher that prompted a homicide investigation.
The sister gave the note to a teacher at her elementary school the morning of Feb. 22, according to a police press release.
The note was written by the children’s mother, who said she was being held against her will by her boyfriend in her Las Vegas home and didn’t know the whereabouts of her son, police told reporters.
The mother “stated that she didn’t know where her younger child was and that she believed he was deceased,” Las Vegas homicide Lt. Ray Spencer told the Reno Gazette-Journal.
The teacher alerted local police, who immediately set up surveillance on the home. When a couple left the home later that day, police pulled their car over.
Brandon Toseland, 35, was charged with two counts of first-degree kidnapping.
Police also spoke with the mother, who told them she hadn’t seen her son since Dec. 11 of last year.