Months before police found 3-year-old Evan Brewer’s body encased in concrete, a woman told a judge that a man living with the boy said he had nearly beat him to death. Four times the boy’s father and others contacted the state agency charged with protecting children, expressing concern about the boy’s safety, said Shayla Johnston, an attorney for Evan’s father. “Evan’s death was predicted … [Read more...]

FIRST OF SIX CHAPTERS HANGING THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF THE BOY IN THE BARN [...]  On Jan. 30, 1989, after dark, Joshua Sean Klaver was found in the barn’s slaughter room, hanging from a bright-orange, metal meat rail — the same one from which his father used to hang steers for butchering and pigs for scalding. A thick rope was wrapped around the boy’s neck. At the time, authorities … [Read more...]

Gina Summers and her son Jude, 5, were discovered dead Monday.  An Orono woman discovered dead with her 5-year-old son Monday left a suicide note lamenting her long-running court battle with the father over custody that ended with them having joint parenting rights, according to a search warrant filed Wednesday. Police have called the hangings of Gina Ilene Summers, 46, and her son Jude a … [Read more...]

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Two Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department detectives who helped crack the case of a South Pasadena father murdering his 5-year-old son spoke exclusively with Eyewitness News about their investigation. Ana Estevez, who called her son Piqui, made a rare smile when she talked about the two detectives who brought her son's killer to justice. "I've affectionately referred … [Read more...]

Hannah Mills was 15 when two strangers woke her in a hotel room. One waved handcuffs in her face while taunting her: “We’re not afraid to use them on children.” The two strangers, who had taken Hannah from a Shiawassee County courtroom to the motel, then drove her to the Detroit airport where they held a towel over her head and escorted her to an airplane. Hours later, she landed in … [Read more...]