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A woman is under arrest after police say a six-year-old child found dead in a motel room is believed to be a boy reported missing from Houston, Texas.

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Theresa Balboa, Samuel Olson's father's girlfriend, gave contradictory statements to authorities about the little boy's disappearance, police said. She has been arrested in connection with his apparent death.

After helping with the search for Samuel Olson on Monday—and sharing her anxiety about finding the missing 6-year-old with reporters—Theresa Balboa quietly slipped away with a friend. Court documents first obtained by ABC13 state that Balboa went to a storage unit in Webster, Texas, with a friend and lugged a large plastic container into her car. The next day, the friend drove her and the container to a local Best Western about two hours away....

The body of Samuel Olson was allegedly moved to a Texas motel inside a plastic bin sealed by zip-ties that smelled so bad it alerted the police. When police arrived at the motel in Jasper, they found the six-year-old inside wrapped in black plastic and duct tape and Theresa Balboa, the girlfriend of his father, in the hotel room’s bathroom, according to local broadcaster KHOU11. The network first reported details from the court records that said...