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U.S. NEWS Saturday 9 June 2018

Kansas stepmom dead after leading investigator to dead boy

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) will ever determine how smoked marijuana
— A woman who led Lucas died, because then drove the girl to a
an investigator to the of the body's decayed restaurant. This occurred
decomposing remains condition. Davidson said one day before Lucas was
of her 5-year-old stepson the investigation into Lucas' reported missing.
three months after death also is ongoing. Court documents filed in
reporting him missing was In an interview for the the endangerment case
found dead early Friday in podcast "Crime Stories with say Lucas was frequently
a Wichita home with three Nancy Grace" that aired seen with bruises and cuts,
suicide notes and a rifle at Monday, Hernandez said and once with black eyes.
her feet, police said.Officer he no longer believes or The document indicates
Charley Davidson said supports Glass and that he the state of Kansas was
during a press briefing that is "a bit confused by" her told at least twice that
officers responded around release from jail. Hernandez Lucas was being abused In this May 24, 2018, file booking photo, provided by the
1:40 a.m. after Jonathan also told Grace that Glass and details the boy's Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office in Wichita, Kan., shows Emily
Glass, of Wichita, after her arrest and booking into the Sedgwick
Hernandez called to told the private investigator dysfunctional and violent County jail after a body that is believed to be her stepson, Lucas
report finding his former she had panicked after she family life.q Hernandez, was found in a nearby county.
girlfriend, Emily Glass, dead found Lucas dead in his bed Associated Press
of a gunshot wound at his one evening or morning.
Wichita home. The podcast included part
Hernandez said in a of a recording captured by Bungalow explodes at camp,
statement that Glass killed Marshburn in which Glass
herself. said in a shaky voice: "I did sending 4 students to hospitals
Davidson said the official Lucas so wrong. I did him
cause of death will wrong."
be determined by the The Wichita Eagle reports
coroner's office and that that Hernandez and Lucas' described several injuries
he didn't know whether mother, Jamie Taylor- as serious. The hospitalized
Glass was living at the Orr, said in a statement teens' conditions were not
home or who owned the released Friday that Glass immediately available
rifle. Davidson did not say "chose to end her own life." Friday.
to whom the three suicide "This is not the ending we Eight other students with
notes were addressed. would have chosen for minor injuries returned
Glass, 27, reported Emily. home with the rest of the
Hernandez' son, Lucas, She was the only person on class, Brennan said.
missing on Feb. 17. She told this earth who could tell us Orange County Emergency
police she last saw Lucas what the last moments of officials say it took about 40
playing in his bedroom our child's life were like," minutes to extinguish the
before she took a shower the statement said. "We flames. They were trying to
and fell asleep. wanted answers and we confirm whether gas is to
On May 24, Glass led still want justice. Our hope In this photo provided by Mark Lieb, firefighters work to put out a blame for the explosion.
David Marshburn, a is that the truth will still fire in a bungalow in Monroe, N.Y., Friday, June 8, 2018. "This area does not have fire
private investigator hired come out, that there will Associated Press hydrants, so they had to set
by Lucas' father, to the be answers to the many up a remote water supply,"
boy's decaying remains. questions we have." MONROE, N.Y. (AP) — A Yeshivas Novominsk Vini Tankasali, the county's
The boy's body had been Hernandez was not bungalow suddenly burst had just arrived at the deputy commissioner
hidden under a culvert at home when Lucas into flames at a camp in bungalow for a weekend for fire services, told the
bridge about 20 miles (32 disappeared. Glass cared upstate New York, sending graduation trip, said Rabbi Times Herald-Record of
kilometers) north of Wichita for her daughter and Lucas four 18-year-old students Lipa Brennan, the school's Middletown.
and was covered with while Hernandez worked from a Brooklyn yeshiva to executive director The upstate fire happened
debris. out of state for weeks at a the hospital with burns, a "They were literally walking hours after a school bus
Police arrested Glass time. Taylor-Orr didn't live school official said Friday. into the bungalow. They from another Brooklyn
on suspicion of lying to in the Wichita area when Firefighters from eight smelled a gas leak or some yeshiva overturned on
authorities, but she was Lucas disappeared. departments battled the gas, and a second later it a ramp near a bridge
freed. Prosecutors never Glass was earlier acquitted blaze that broke out shortly just went up," Brennan said. connecting New Jersey
charged her in Lucas' of child endangerment after midnight Friday at The rabbi said the four and New York City. Minor
death, but said she was a in an unrelated case Quaker Hill Cottages in hospitalized students injuries were reported after
person of interest. involving her then-1-year- Monroe, New York, about with various degrees bus tipped at about 4 p.m.
It's unclear if an autopsy and old daughter. 45 miles (70 kilometers) of burns are expected Thursday on the New Jersey
toxicology examination Prosecutors allege Glass north of New York City. to recover. Emergency Turnpike near the Goethals
A 12th-grade class from officials overnight had Bridge.q