Monster? There is the possibility that her 12-year-old victim was still alive when she burned him to a crisp with a cutting torch. The lead investigator described her as a 'cold, soulless murderer who showed an absolute lack of remorse.’ Calling her a monster is an insult to monsters!
WOMAN ACCUSED OF MURDERING BOY AND BURNING HIS BODY SAYS: ‘I AM NOT A MONSTER … I LOVE KIDS’
Mail Online
January 1, 2011
Mona Nelson, the woman accused of murdering Texas boy Jonathan Foster, spoke for the first time since being arrest - proclaiming her innocence.
Nelson, 44, told reporters that she would never do anything to harm a child, and that she has five grandchildren of her own.
'I'm not a monster... I love kids,' she told a local TV station from her prison cell.
Although Nelson is adamant that she would not harm any child, it is not a view shared by police, who believe the 12-year-old Foster may not be her only victim.
The boy was reported missing from his home on Christmas Eve, after his mother claims she received a strange call at her workplace from a gruff-sounding woman.
Jonathan's mother, Angela Davis, initially told police that he was with a babysitter. But she later admitted that he was home alone.
His burned body was discovered on Tuesday in a roadside ditch in Houston, not far from where he lived.
Nelson told to local KTRK TV that a member of Jonathan’s family gave her $20 to dump a plastic container on Christmas Eve.
She claimed she was drunk on vodka and didn’t know what was inside the container.
She said she chose a random Houston ditch to dump the container in.
But police revealed that Jonathan’s burned body was not discovered in a plastic container.
Nelson insisted: 'I’m not a monster. I have five grandkids and I love kids.'
She admitted having a cutting torch, a welding instrument that police say she used to burn the body, but she said she needed it for her job as a welder.
When asked if she used it on Jonathan, she said: 'I would never do that.'
Police allege that Nelson’s truck was spotted on surveillance footage dumping something in the ditch where the body was found.
In addition, investigators say they’ve discovered evidence at Nelson’s apartment that allegedly links her to the crime, including burned carpet and twine similar to that used to bind Jonathan’s hands.
Houston Police Department Homicide Detective Mike Miller called Nelson a 'cold, soulless murderer who showed an absolute lack of remorse in taking the life of Jonathan Foster'.”
He called the boy’s death 'an absolute tragedy that can’t be put into words'.
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