Hearing today for case of dead son found in mother's trunk - The Virginian-Pilot
A 44-year-old woman charged with concealing her son's body in the trunk of her car is scheduled for a preliminary hearing this afternoon in Hampton General District Court. State police said the boy's whereabouts cannot be accounted for in the 11 years since he was a middle school student in Virginia Beach. Slaton of Richmond was arrested June 6 after a state trooper pulled her over on Interstate 64 in Hampton for expired state tags. Slaton's black Ford Mustang wasn't registered in Virginia, and the license plates weren't on file with the Department of Motor Vehicles. So the trooper confiscated the tags and searched the car, according to a search warrant affidavit filed in Hampton Circuit Court. The trooper noticed a "strong odor of rotting flesh" permeating from a plastic trash bag in the trunk. The bag was under a spare tire and a pile of clothes, according to court documents. Slaton reached in the trunk and tossed clothing on top of the bag. She said there were more clothes in the bag, according to court documents. But the trooper had found a decomposing body, in two plastic trash bags and wrapped with duct tape, according to a criminal complaint filed in Hampton General District Court. Davis was enrolled at Virginia Beach Middle School from Sept. Source: hamptonroads.com
