'Symptoms go away': Mother's phone has 58 missing texts after she found her 4-month-old boy shaking, cops say

A parent and begetter successful Wyoming abused their 4-month-old lad astir the aforesaid clip idiosyncratic searched connected the woman's phone, "Shaken babe syndromes symptoms spell away," authorities say.

Juliette Martinez, 23, and Joseph Hanson, 24, some look charges of first-degree murder and aggravated kid abuse, the Cheyenne Police Department announced successful a property release. They are some booked successful the Laramie County Detention Center, tribunal records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

On Aug. 8, 2025, astatine astir 5:45 p.m., infirmary unit astatine Cheyenne Regional Medical Center successful Cheyenne, Wyoming, reported that a 4-month-old babe — aboriginal identified successful documents arsenic TH — was brought successful by Martinez and Hanson, according to the property release. "Following an assessment, it was determined the babe required precocious aesculapian attraction astatine Denver Children's Hospital" and that required him to beryllium airlifted, but the infirmary was not capable to get successful interaction with the parents.

A Cheyenne constabulary serviceman responded to the infirmary and past went to the parents' location connected the 100 artifact of Miami Circle successful the metropolis "to link them with infirmary personnel." The kid was airlifted to the infirmary successful Denver, Colorado, and aesculapian tests determination showed "extensive injuries."

The lad had "fractures and life-threatening encephalon trauma, which appeared to beryllium the effect of carnal abuse," constabulary said. He was placed connected beingness support, and connected Sept. 8, 2025, helium was removed from beingness enactment and pronounced dead.

The circumstances of the child's decease were investigated. According to an affidavit of probable origin obtained by Cowboy State Daily, Hanson had told a caregiver that Martinez had "twin resentment," and that TH had a duplicate and an 18-month-old sister.

Officers interviewed some parents. Martinez reportedly said that earlier TH's archetypal infirmary visit, she and Hanson "both agreed TH's 'breathing was off.'" When they picked him up, they noticed the lad was shaking.

They are said to person brought him to the infirmary astir 45 minutes later.

Martinez allegedly revealed much successful her discussions with officers. She said that connected that aforesaid time of the archetypal infirmary sojourn — Aug. 8, 2025 — she slept until astir 11:20 a.m. When she woke up and noticed TH's breathing, she said she recorded a video and sent it to Hanson's mother, who told them to instrumentality him to the hospital.

Hanson said helium was awake the erstwhile nighttime with TH successful the surviving room, per the affidavit. He recounted that helium near the location astatine astir 7:30 a.m. to spell to enactment and near the kid successful Martinez's care.

Investigators besides searched some parents' cellphones. When they did so, they seemingly had questions concerning Martinez's story.

For example, though she claimed she was dormant astatine the time, the hunt recovered that her telephone was progressive connected Snapchat and TikTok betwixt 8:03 and 9:29 that morning, according to the section newspaper. Her telephone besides had "58 missing substance messages betwixt 6:42 a.m. and 11:45 [a.m.]," the affidavit stated.

Her phone's net hunt past besides allegedly showed respective searches having been made aft the parents said they saw their lad shaking, including: "Shaken babe syndrome symptoms," "Shaken babe syndromes symptoms spell away," "Signs begetter gave babe shaken babe syndrome," and "Seizures successful 5 period aged babe longer than 5 minutes."

Detectives received the completed autopsy for TH connected March 20, Cheyenne constabulary said, noting the main coroner progressive "determined the origin and mode of decease to beryllium homicide." The parents were arrested connected April 8, 2026.

Martinez and Hanson appeared successful tribunal connected Thursday and are acceptable to instrumentality connected April 17.