On October 28th, TiAundra Christon reported her two-year-old daughter, Hazana Anderson, missing in College Station, Texas.
According to investigators, Christon and her boyfriend, Kenny D’Shawn Hewett, were staying in a hotel room in Houston, Texas from October 17-20. On the 19th, Christon told investigators that Hazana left with Hewett to get food. When they returned, Hazana was crying and Hewett was upset, hitting her with a belt “causing whelps to her legs, arms, and face.”
Christon stated that Hewett told her to discipline her child, so she beat Hazana “a couple of times” with the belt before Hewett became dissatisfied with her and began hitting the girl again. The couple then realized Hazana was unconscious, but Christon told investigators she believed she had a pulse. Christon and Hewett took Hazana to the bathtub to revive her, but were not successful. They then attempted to warm the girl’s body with a hair dryer, but only caused burns to her skin.
Christon told detectives that she kept the two-year-old’s body in the back floorboard of her car for three days before wrapping Hazana’s body in a garbage bag, tying a large rock to it, and disposing of it in the lake in Texas City, where deputies found remains on Wednesday.
Five days after dumping the toddler’s body, Christon reported her missing from her stroller at Gabbard Park in College Station. Witnesses stated that they did not see or hear a child in the area.
Police found a women’s handbag in a trashcan near Christon’s car, containing a toy baby doll wearing Hazana’s clothing, which Christon could not explain. She was subsequently arrested by College Station Police for filing a false report and abandoning/endangering a child.
Christon and her boyfriend were charged with tampering with a human corpse. The two are held on a combined $1.25 million bond.
