LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police in Nevada say piecing together torn-up jailhouse letters yielded a possible confession that led to the arrest of a Florida woman on a murder warrant in the 1986 disappearance of her 3-year-old son — now presumed dead.
North Las Vegas Police Chief Pamela Ojeda said Monday the discovery came after detectives reopened the case in 2017 and tried unsuccessfully to trace the origin of a fraudulent birth certificate application in the name of the missing boy, Francillon Pierre.
A police affidavit says that in one letter, the boy's mother, Amy Elizabeth Fleming, told her then-fiance that "what happened was totally unintentional" and she was sorry.
Fleming is now 60. She was arrested Jan. 29 in Boca Raton, Florida, and is being transferred in custody to Nevada to face a murder charge.
The child's body hasn't been found.