Mom found dead in trash can after forcing teen son to eat 'prisoner food' and wear an orange jumpsuit for sneaking out of the house: Police

A 16-year-old lad successful Oklahoma is accused of readying and past executing the fatal beating of his adoptive mother, repeatedly smashing her implicit the caput with a hammer and stuffing her assemblage successful a trash bin and leaving it astatine the curb past week.

Jordan Cole Weems, who prosecutors are charging arsenic an adult, is facing 1 number each of first-degree murder, desecration of a quality corpse, and unauthorized removal of a dormant assemblage successful the slaying of 49-year-old Spring Weems, tribunal documents state.

Prosecutors laid retired the allegations against Jordan Weems successful a Friday filing seeking to person the teen detained without enslaved until his trial. The papers says Jordan Weems is liable for the "brutal bludgeoning" of his mother, who suffered "massive harm to the face" arsenic good arsenic "deforming of the caput and face."

In his connection to police, Jordan Weems allegedly confessed to "striking her initially successful the look betwixt the eyes, and aboriginal beating her to unconsciousness with his fists, past again beating her with a hammer."

After the alleged murder, prosecutors said Jordan Weems tried to screen his tracks by hiding the assemblage and inventing stories to explicate his mother's absence.

"The facts and grounds amusement that this was not a transgression of passionateness oregon an instantaneous decision. Rather, the Defendant threatened to termination his parent starring up to the crime," prosecutors wrote. "That helium planned the sidesplitting by retrieving a hammer and laying successful hold to astonishment his parent successful the mediate of the night. When his parent came upon him unsuspecting, helium attacked her viciously and brutally, striking her with the hammer and his fist successful excess of a twelve times. Finally, aft sidesplitting his mother, helium took steps to fell the body, cleanable up the scene, fabricate grounds to excuse her absence, and lied to his household astir her location."

The onslaught allegedly stemmed from Jordan Weems and 1 of his brothers getting caught sneaking retired of the location and uncovering themselves successful a concern wherever they were "running from instrumentality enforcement," Oklahoma City ABC affiliate KOCO reported.

When Spring Weems recovered out, she reportedly punished Jordan by forcing him and his member to constitute "letters to apologize to the police." She besides forced him to devour "prisoner food" (consisting of ham oregon chickenhearted with beans) and to deterioration an orangish jumpsuit, which she reportedly hoped would "show him what beingness arsenic a captive mightiness beryllium similar if helium did not commencement behaving."

During his punishment, Jordan Weems allegedly told his sibling respective times that helium was going to termination their mother, Oklahoma City CBS affiliate KWTV reported. When different sibling asked wherever their parent was, Jordan Weems allegedly said she had gone to their older sister's location to assistance with her caller baby. When she didn't instrumentality the pursuing day, 1 of the siblings called their adoptive father, Spring Weems' ex-husband, who filed a missing persons study with the Logan County Sheriff's Office.

Deputies connected Jan. 28 responded to the Weems' location aft receiving calls astir Jordan Weems warring successful the thoroughfare with 1 of his siblings. Upon arriving, deputies recovered the 2 boys. One of Jordan's brothers reportedly yelled, "He conscionable killed my mom." Deputies past discovered Spring Weems' assemblage stuffed successful a trash bin that had been rolled retired to the curb.

Prosecutors concluded their petition to withhold enslaved from Jordan Weems by pointing retired that the teen had nary genitor "willing to vouch for him and to guarantee his quality successful court."

"The facts of this crime, namely that the Defendant planned it, laid successful hold to execute it, attempted to disguise the information of the murder, and provided mendacious accusation to his household to pb them distant from the transgression and the assemblage of his victim, shows the Defendant to beryllium a information to the assemblage and evinces a tendency to fly from the consequences of his actions," the filing says.

The petition was granted and the suspect is presently being held without enslaved until his adjacent appearance, which is presently scheduled for Feb. 24.