Updated April 30, 2012 at 12:25 PM CST: A Carthage, Missouri man found guilty of second degree murder for the death of his eight month old son has been sentenced.
Eddie Salazar Senior received a life sentence for the death of his son, Eddie Salazar Junior.
During the murder trial a pathologist said the eight month old died of blunt head trauma. Medical examiners noted bleeding from Eddie Junior's scalp, three skull fractures on the back of the head, brain swelling, and bleeding inside the head.
Updated March 14, 2012 at 5:25 PM CST by A Carthage, Missouri man is found guilty of second degree murder for the death of his eight month old son.
During today's hearing in the murder trial of Eddie Salazar Senior, a forensic pathologist was brought in from Cook County, Illinois.
The pathologist said eight month old Eddie Salazar Junior died of blunt head trauma. Medical examiners noted bleeding from Eddie Junior's scalp, three skull fractures on the back of the head, brain swelling, and bleeding inside the head.
Salazar Senior said in a taped confession that he picked up his baby and shook him to stop crying. He also says the child "slipped" out of his hands, falling to a hard ceramic tile floor, and hitting his hard "hard".
However, the forensic pathologist says it would've been a very hard fall to cause the type of injuries.
Prosecutors contend the father was mad and threw his son to the floor.
Prosecutors also say Salazar Senior lied to police four different times concerning how his baby was killed and also where he disposed of the baby.
Salazar is charged with second degree murder which carries 10 to 30 years in prison.
His defense claims Salazar never intended to kill his son, and that there was no murder.
Updated March 14, 2012 at 3:55 PM CST: A jury has found a Carthage man guilty in the murder of his eight month old son.
This afternoon a jury found Eddie Salazar Senior guilty of second degree murder in the death of Eddie Salazar Junior.
Updated March 14, 2012 at 12:15 PM CST: Testimony wrapped earlier today in the murder trial of Eddie Salazar Senior.
The defense rested this morning at 9:30. Jury deliberations began at 11:30.
Updated March 13, 2012 at 3:30 PM CST Jurors hear graphic details of the murder case surrounding an eight month old child.
The murder trial continues for Eddie Salazar, Senior, accused of killing Eddie Salazar, Junior.
Jurors first heard a taped confession from Salazar done the day after his son was reported missing in February 2010.
Salazar says his son had accidentally fallen to the ground from a couch hitting his head. Salazar then put his son in a crib and later discovered the child was not breathing.
Salazar admitted to disposing the body in Spring River about six miles outside of Carthage.
But then Salazar changed his story, adding he shook his child after the child would not stop crying.
Prosecutors are also showing evidence that Salazar Junior was abused at least once before the event leading to his death.
Updated March 12, 2012: Jury selection is completed and opening statements have begun in Jasper County for a Carthage man.
Eddie Salazar is charged with the murder of his eight-month old son, Eddie Salazar Junior.
Salazar had reported the child as kidnapped.
That prompted an Amber Alert and massive search by authorities and the boy's body was eventually found in Spring River east of Carthage.
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