Mona Nelson is one of the most evil people in the United States. The killing of a young boy on Christmas Eve in 2010 is still a haunting reminder of how bad people can be.
The death of the 12-year-old boy shocked the neighbourhood and led to a thorough search for the killer.
Even with all the work that law enforcement has done, the case remains unclear and mysterious. But the investigation has been focused on one person: Mona Nelson.
Mona Nelson has been trying to clear her name ever since she was charged with killing the young boy.
Even though she is being accused, her lawyer, Allen Tanner, says there is no solid evidence linking her to the crime.
In fact, Tanner thinks it would be wrong to give Nelson a life sentence before looking at all the evidence and looking into other possible suspects.
Tanner says that there are no forensic clues or physical evidence that link Nelson to the crime. Ignoring this fact would be a huge mistake.
He quickly points out that Nelson is not the murderer just because she was near the crime scene. He thinks that other people may have been involved and that the real culprit hasn’t been caught yet.
State law says that if Mona Nelson is found guilty of the crime, she will spend the rest of her life in prison without the chance of parole.
The prosecution is not trying to get someone put to death. Investigators and prosecutors kept saying that Nelson was to blame for the death of the young boy, but Spence finally came up with a theory about why Nelson might have done it.
Spence said that after drinking that day, Nelson had gone to see a friend named Sharon Ennamorato, who worked at a restaurant in North Houston.
The apartment was temporarily shared by Ennamorato and the boy’s mother, and Nelson was told to wait there for Ennamorato to come back. Spence said that Ennamorato was supposed to call the boy whose job it was to keep people out, but she didn’t.
Spence says that when Nelson got to the boy’s apartment at 2:00 p.m., the boy wouldn’t let her in. She then took the boy a few miles away to her house, where she tied him up and killed him.
Spence told the judge that Nelson had four hours to burn the boy’s body with a cutting torch used by welders that Nelson owned.
When the boy’s burned body was found in a ditch in North Houston, security footage showed that Nelson’s truck was used to dump the body.
Nelson told the police that it was her pickup truck, but the stepfather of the boy, with whom she had broken up, was also in the car. He had asked Nelson to help him throw away a trash can. Spence said that Nelson threw away the body as if it were trash.
After looking at the security footage, which showed that the boy’s stepfather was drinking at a bar at the time he went missing, the police said he had nothing to do with the crime.
Nelson said that he talked to the boy about an hour before he went missing from the apartment he shared with his mother and a friend at 12 Oak St. in northwest Houston. Nelson said that after she talked to the boy at the door, she left the building alone.
The case of Mona Nelson and the death of the young boy is still a hard and emotional one with a lot of questions that haven’t been answered.
But it’s clear that Allen Tanner wants to fight for Nelson’s rights and make sure that justice is done right. No matter what happens, he is determined to find out the truth and make sure the right person is held responsible.
In the end, the death of the young boy is still a heartbreaking tragedy, and the search for justice goes on.
Mona Nelson is being accused of a serious crime, but her lawyer, Allen Tanner, is sure that there is no proof that she did it.
He thinks it would be a terrible mistake to send her to prison before looking into all the evidence and all the possibilities.