A Woman Is Arrested While Driving, Covered In Blood With Her Dead 6 Year Old In Trunk, Tells Cops It's From A Tampon

A Minnesota mother has been charged with the murder of her six-year-old son after authorities say she was found covered in blood during a traffic stop, and the child’s gunshot-ridden body was later located in her trunk. Shockingly, court documents assert police drove the woman home before the body was recovered, KMSP reports.

Citing a criminal complaint, the outlet said that on May 20, at around 7:00 a.m., Orona police initiated a traffic stop of a Chevrolet Impala driving around without a tire and with a smashed rear window. The driver of the vehicle, Julissa Thaler, 28, appeared to have blood on her hands, head, and clothing and allegedly told officers it was from a tampon, the outlet reported, referencing the latest documents filed regarding the murder investigation.

Brain matter and blood were allegedly recovered from multiple locations in the investigation, according to KMSP:

A witness saw Thaler’s vehicle at the Shell gas station on Three Points Boulevard not long before the traffic stop, the complaint said. Police searched the dumpsters at the gas station, finding a backpack, blood, bone, and what looked like brain matter.

Police “followed damage done to the roads” by Thaler’s vehicle’s rim, as well as information from witnesses, leading officers to “multiple locations” where blood and brain matter were discarded, charges said. Police found a bloody child booster seat in a dumpster, noting the seat had sustained damage “consistent with a shotgun blast.”