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Texas News Weapon being tested to see if it was used to kill Texas boy Investigators have recovered a weapon that may have been used to kill a 5-year-old Houston boy whose body was allegedly kept in a storage unit before being discovered in an East Texas motel. by Associated Press Jun. 25 2021 @ 10:19pm HOUSTON — Investigators have recovered a weapon that may have been used to kill a 5-year-old Houston boy whose body was allegedly kept in a storage unit before being discovered in an East Texa...

A Coldspring man has been arrested and is currently being held in the Jasper County Jail in connection with his alleged role in the transport of a dead childs body

Benjamin Rivera, the roommate of Theresa Balboa, was freed on $100,000 bail Thursday. A prosecutor said the weapon used to kill Samuel Olson may have been found.

KTRK in Houston reports that 27 year old Benjamin D. Rivera, the roommate of Theresa Balboa, turned himself in to the Harris County Jail this morning and has now been charged in connection with the death of 5 year old Samuel Olson. Bond was set at $100,000. The body of the child was found in a room at the Best Western Motel on Highway 190, in Jasper, where Balboa was staying on June 1st. Rivera, is charged with Tampering/Fabricating Evidence and is currently in the Harris County Jail. Balboa al...

According to court documents, the roommate told detectives that Samuel died on or around May 10. He said Balboa called him at work that day to tell him Samuel was dead. The roommate said when he returned home to their apartment in Webster, he saw Samuel’s bruised body lying on a bed. He said he and Balboa placed the body in a bathtub for a couple of days. The roommate told police he went to Walmart and bought a plastic bin and duct tape. The receipt was found during the investigation. He said...

The mother of a five-year-old boy who was found dead in a Texas motel on June 1 spoke for the first time on Tuesday, and insisted that the boys father, Dalton Olson, had to have been involved.

Mother of Samuel Olson speaks out about sons killing HOUSTON – Two weeks after 5-year-old Samuel Olson’s body was found in a motel room in Jasper, Texas, the boy’s mother spoke out for the first time on Tuesday. “I’m holding up. It’s hard,” Samuel’s mother, Sarah Olson, said on Tuesday. “I’m taking it day-by-day. No one ever expects anything like this to happen. I’m trying to understand things.” Sarah’s attorney, Marco González, said this is the first time the mother...

Sarah Olson, the mother of Samuel Olson, had been trying to regain custody of her son for months before his remains were found stuffed in a plastic bin, her attorney said. The girlfriend of his father has been charged in connection with the case.

Remains found inside bin at Texas motel officially identified as 5-year-old Samuel Olson Jessica Schladebeck The body of a young boy discovered inside a Texas motel has officially been identified as Samuel Olson, a 5-year-old from Jasper who was reported missing just ahead of his sixth birthday. An autopsy released late Wednesday by officials in Harris County also revealed the young boy’s cause of death to be homicide by blunt force trauma to the head, according to Click2Houst...

The body of a young boy discovered inside a Texas motel has officially been identified as Samuel Olson, a 5-year-old from Jasper who was reported missing just ahead of his sixth birthday.