On the morning of Tuesday, February 22,
A 7-year-old elementary school girl in Las Vegas, USA, handed the teacher a "note written by her mother".
The girl's mother, sending a distress message on the note:
"I was abused and detained by my boyfriend and haven't seen my 4-year-old son since December 11 last year, fearing for his safety."
The teacher was shocked to see it and quickly handed the note to the police at about 8:30 a.m.
Subsequently, the police deployed surveillance personnel near the residence of the girl's mother.
At about 10 a.m. that day, the police saw a man driving and a woman leave the house, so they stopped the car.
At that time, the woman's mobile phone had been taken away by the man.
She was also handcuffed in the car and unable to move freely.
The woman was the mother who sent the distress message, and the man was her boyfriend, Brandon Toseland, 35.
As the woman described on the note,
She was restricted by her boyfriend, Toseland, from leaving the house or entering the garage alone, nor could she ask about her young son, Mason, whom she hadn't seen in months.
In January 2021, the biological father of two children died of illness.
A few months later, the woman was introduced to her new boyfriend, Toseland.
Not long after dating, Toseland revealed an eccentric personality, always forcing the woman to keep her distance from her family.
In the end, the woman is almost completely deprived of her personal freedom.
According to the woman,
The last time she saw her 4-year-old son was last December.
The son was sick at the time, but was locked in the master bedroom of the home by Toseland.
In the months since, the woman has not seen her son and has been asked by her boyfriend to be forbidden to ask about it.
She vaguely felt that her son was probably dead...
Upon learning of this, the police applied for a search warrant.
At about 4:30 p.m. that day, police found the body of Mason, a 4-year-old boy, in the refrigerator of the garage.
Prosecutors revealed,
The boy had obvious scars on his body, but the cause of death could not be determined until the autopsy results were available.
After the tragedy was exposed,
The man, Toseland, has been charged with murder and two counts of kidnapping and has now been arrested by police.
Toseland admitted that he knew his girlfriend's son had long since died, but it was an accident.
According to media reports, Toseland has a criminal record and was arrested for violence as early as 2005.
After a preliminary investigation, the police believed that the woman should have no relationship with the death of her 4-year-old son.
At present, the woman has returned to her mother's home with her 7-year-old daughter.
The family began crowdfunding online in hopes of raising funeral expenses to bury the deceased boy next to his father's grave.
In response to the incident, a male neighbor around the scene of the crime expressed shock:
"As far as I've seen on a daily basis, Toseland looks pretty normal..."
"I do only see Toseland pick up and drop off kids from school, though. Only my wife, the mother who has seen the child. ”
However, it is enough to see from the statement of this neighbor that
The so-called "normal person" Of Toseland is actually how abnormal...