A Las Vegas mother sent her daughter to school with a note, begging to be rescued from an abusive boyfriend, which led police to find that girl’s little brother dead in a freezer, authorities said Tuesday.
Highlights
- The mom’s desperate plea for help was read by her daughter’s elementary school teacher and then passed on to police.
- The boyfriend, later identified as 35-year-old Brandon Toseland, had been preventing the mother from leaving the house or entering the garage, police say.
- The mother told police she had not seen her son since Dec.
- He was arrested and booked on a suspected kidnapping charge, but prosecutors added a murder charge later in the day.
- The investigation is ongoing; police say they “have a lot of questions that we still don’t have the answer to,” police Lt.