Woman who drove to Sam's Club with 4-year-old dead in her car trunk faces multiple murder charges: Police

A 36-year-old pistillate successful Georgia is facing a spate of caller charges aft authorities said they recovered the remains of a 4-year-old miss hidden successful her car trunk aft she told her begetter she had "hurt" the kid and believed she was dead.

Jessica Maria Motes is present facing charges of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated battery, and first-degree cruelty to children, authorities announced.

Motes was arrested precocious past period and initially charged with lone 1 number of concealing the decease of a child.

The further charges resulted from a associated probe spearheaded by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) with assistance from the Oakwood Police Department and the Hall County Sheriff's Office, the GBI said successful a Wednesday quality release.

As Law&Crime previously reported, Motes' begetter told constabulary that helium spotted his girl driving her Nissan sedan into the parking batch of a buying halfway successful the 3000 artifact of Mundy Mill Road successful Oakwood astatine astir 5 p.m. connected Sunday, Oct. 26.

The code belongs to a Sam's Club that is astir 45 miles northeast of Atlanta.

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Motes' begetter told constabulary that erstwhile helium spoke to his daughter, she made respective incriminating statements, according to a probable origin affidavit. Such statements allegedly included Motes saying that she "hurt" the unfortunate and past telling her father, "I deliberation she is dead."

The warrant states that Motes' begetter past drove her distant from the parking batch and that they "later encountered instrumentality enforcement."

After Motes' begetter spoke with authorities, constabulary responded to the parking lot. There, officers said they recovered "the remains" of the 4-year-old unfortunate "in the trunk of the Nissan sedan," which is allegedly registered to Motes.

Authorities did not disclose the narration betwixt Motes and the unidentified 4-year-old victim.

Atlanta NBC affiliate WXIA reported that the Oakwood Police Department was the archetypal bureau investigating the victim's death. Police past requested assistance from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) and the Hall County Sheriff's Office.

According to the GBI, upon the completion of the investigation, the lawsuit record volition beryllium turned implicit to the Northeastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office for prosecution.

Motes has remained successful custody astatine the Hall County Detention Center since her archetypal arrest.