A Texas mother called 911 on October 28, 2018, and claimed her 2-year-old daughter had gone missing in a park. That call prompted a massive search party that involved more than 150 people, including police and first responders, but the search turned up nothing but a life-sized doll wearing the exact clothes the woman had described her child wearing.
According to People, the woman, Tiaundra Christon, had recently returned to College Station after visiting her boyfriend in Houston. Christon’s friends reported seeing her daughter Hazana with her, and a surveillance video from a local Walmart showed the mother pushing what appeared to be her daughter in a stroller around the store.
As investigators unraveled the mystery of the missing child, they discovered Hazana had died days earlier, and Christon and her boyfriend had dumped the child’s body in a lake.
Because the coroner was not able to determine the cause of death in this case, Tiaundra Christon received a sentence of 20 years on Monday after being convicted of tampering with a human corpse. She followed the same fate as her boyfriend Kenny Hewett, who received the same sentence in November 2019 after pleading guilty to the same charge.
