Las Vegas Boy Found Dead In Freezer, Mother’s Boyfriend Arrested

[Sugar Cookie]

Las Vegas police are continuing to investigate the death of a child after his body was found in a freezer in a home where his mother and her boyfriend were living, officials said.

The mother’s boyfriend was arrested as a suspect and was detained on two kidnapping charges and a murder charge, after authorities searched the home and found the body of the preschool-age boy, who was last seen in Dec., Fox 5 of Las Vegas reported.

The investigation into the home started after the mother gave a note to her other child, who was instructed to give it to their elementary school teacher, officials said.

The note said the mother was being held against her will and that she has not seen her son since Dec. 11., and assumed he was dead, Fox 5 reported.

The teacher forwarded the note to Clark County School District Police Department officers, who then called Las Vegas police, officials said.

Police officers surveilled the home until they saw the couple leave at about 10 a.m. Tuesday morning, when they pulled them over for questioning, according to the report.

The mother explained to the officers that she was being abused by her boyfriend, she was discouraged from asking about the missing child, and she was instructed not to walk in or near the garage, officials said.

Homicide detectives, who took over the investigation, returned hours later with a warrant to search the home, where they found the boy in a freezer located in the garage, Fox 5 reported.

Las Vegas boy found dead in freezer, mother’s boyfriend arrested: police

Las Vegas police are continuing to investigate the death of a child after his body was found in a freezer in a home where his mother and her boyfriend were living.

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[62julietandvoid]

Both bitches need to fry. I don't believe Ole mom.

 

[Turd Fergusen]

Suspect identified:

Pre-schooler is found dead in a FREEZER

Officers from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department were contacted after a young girl arrived to school with an alarming note written by her mother shortly after 8am on Tuesday.

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[Jellyfish Brain]

Wow mom really went through steps to attempt to frame herself as a poor battered woman and lay all the blame on loser dick. There has been an influx of "Childs body found in freezer" stories. I just can't. Hope they both rot.

 

[Sevens My Charm]

 

[Sugar Cookie]

The 35-year-old man arrested in connection with the death of a 4-year-old boy whose body was found in a freezer is now facing a murder charge following his first court appearance Wednesday.

Brandon Toseland was facing two counts of kidnapping after the child's remains were found at a Las Vegas home on Tuesday.

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said the boy's mother sent a note to a local school with her daughter saying the mother was being held against her will.

The note said she hadn't seen her other child since December and she believed they were dead.

A prosecutor at Wednesday's appearance said the 4-year-old's body showed visible injuries and an autopsy would be happening later in the day.

The boy has been identified as 4-year-old as Mason Dominguez.

He is being held without bail.

Mother's boyfriend facing murder charge in 4-year-old's death

Mom loved him On Valentine's Day.

Mom's husband died a year ago.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

 

[Sevens My Charm]

Pre-K and she had his ears pierced .. Uuuggghhhhh

 

[runninfawn]

and school pics are the only one that he looks happy in and make me wonder since he hasn't been seen since dec 11 what excuses were given and by who for his absence? and how come the older child never said a word at school about her missing brother... so many questions without answers... and i know if my child was missing for heck no time at all i would be looking everywhere and if not found in the house or my yard cops would be called right away and i pity whoever would stand in my way of calling for help...

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Per KLAS, the woman reportedly told police that Toseland was her live-in boyfriend but said he had become physically abusive and been keeping her against her will for weeks. She also reportedly said that she had not seen her preschool-aged son in several weeks and that Toseland would not allow her to leave the house alone or enter certain parts of the home, specifically, the garage.

I hope they are able to prove this bitch is just as guilty as him.

Next she will say he forced her to write that shit from Valentine's Day.

She wasted no time getting with this piece of shit after the death of her husband and word is she was with him before he even died.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

I don't believe this bitch and the only person who could have told the truth was murdered and place in a freezer.

Stephen Stubbs, a lawyer representing the woman, whose name Fox News Digital will not share as she is a victim of sexual abuse, said she endured months of physical, sexual and emotional abuse and was told by Toseland that he would kill her son and her 7-year-old daughter if she ever left him.

"There was never a time when her daughter was with her that she was not locked in a room, bound or handcuffed," Stubbs said of the woman. "There was never an opportunity to take her daughter and run."

"The mother was physically, sexually and emotionally abused," Stubbs said. "The children were physically and emotionally abused and separated from their mother most of the time."

According to an arrest report, Toseland said he shared with the mother that the boy was dead "and said she would not be allowed to see his body because he would lose his freedom," but did not previously share the information with law enforcement or call an ambulance.

The attorney said the woman met Toseland through her deceased husband, the father of her children, who died in January 2021. Two months later, she and her children moved in with Toseland, who "slowly and methodically" dominated the home.

Las Vegas mom of 4-year-old found in freezer says she was always handcuffed, endured abuse from suspect

A Las Vegas woman whose son was found dead in a freezer Tuesday says she endured months of abuse from her boyfriend, who has been arrested and charged with the boy’s death.

news.yahoo.com

She was fucking him before her husband even died.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

3 Action News was able to view a large, rectangular hole in the backyard of a home where a young child's body was found on Tuesday.

A neighbor, who asked not to be publicly identified, said the hole appeared over the past month but they didn't think much of it until news broke that the child's body had been discovered.

Detectives have not commented publicly on the discovery of the hole in the backyard, or what connection it might have to their investigation.

Large hole visible in backyard of home where Las Vegas police found child's body

13 Action News was able to view a large, rectangular hole in the backyard of a home where a young child's body was found on Tuesday. 35-year-old Brandon Toseland, who was dating the child's mother, is accused of the murder.

www.ktnv.com

 

[Granmaw]

Not buying "mom"s excuse. Mfker has to sleep sometime. Fry them both!!

 

[r0ckstar666]

Brandon Toseland Las Vegas man murders Mason Dominguez 4 yr old boy

Brandon Toseland Las Vegas man murders girlfriend's 4 year old son, Mason Dominguez, keeps boy's body in freezer the garage.

scallywagandvagabond.com

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Dupe

https://www.dreamindemon.com/community/threads/las-vegas-boy-found-dead-in-freezer-mother%E2%80%99s-boyfriend-arrested.129926/

 

[Keepalowprofile]

Things ain't right here.

Her husband died in February 2021
And in February 2022 she writes a sweet message to her boyfriend happy 1 year anniversary.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Amber Sterling
Aury Pastor Evidently, this money bought the house she's in, he moved in with her immediately. He (bf) is also her late husband's sister's ex husband! This whole thing is nuts! I hope they are investigating all of this and not yet reporting to gain evidence. It's like an ID show.....crazy.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A deep hole in the backyard of an east Las Vegas home likely was planned as a gravesite for the body of a 4-year-old boy who was found dead in a freezer this week, a police investigator said Thursday.

Metropolitan Police Department homicide Lt. Ray Spencer said the hole was discovered in the yard of the home where Brandon Toseland and his girlfriend lived. The woman’s son, Mason Dominguez, was found dead in a freezer on Tuesday, and Toseland now faces a murder charge.

”During the execution of the search warrant we located a very deep 8-foot hole that had been dug in the backyard,” Spencer said. “It appears to have been dug as a grave. There was also dirt located inside a U-Haul parked in the driveway.”

Spencer said police believe Toseland planned to put the child’s body in the hole and bury it.

“That is what we believe because of the depth of the hole,” he said. “The hole was layered as such that it makes us believe that was the plan.”

His public defender, Scott Coffee, said Toseland is being housed in protective custody at the Clark County Detention Center. During Thursday’s court hearing, Toseland wore the same white shirt pictured in the booking photo from his Tuesday arrest. He continues to beheld without bail.

Attorney Stephen Stubbs, who said he has been designated as the media representative for Mason’s family, said the family has reported an “unauthorized” GoFundMe page to Metro that was established Wednesday by a “distant family member.” The woman who created the online fundraiser has not responded to a request for comment.


Metro has told GoFundMe that Mason’s mother had not authorized the fundraiser, which should result in refunds for people who have donated, police spokesman Misael Parra said.

“At this point it’s not an official investigation,” he said.

Mason’s mother told police that Toseland had tied her up, handcuffed her and taken away her cellphone in the weeks following Dec. 11, when she had last seen her son, according to a Metro arrest report.

She was able to smuggle multiple “sticky notes” with her 7-year-old daughter to the girl’s elementary school, according to an emailed statement from Stubbs, to inform school officials that she was being held against her will and suspected her son had died.

“The mother and daughter victims are grateful that their captivity is over,” Stubbs wrote. “They are traumatized by these horrifying events, and overwhelmed with grief for the loss of their 4 year old son and brother.”

Stubbs described Toseland as an acquaintance of the mother’s husband, who died in January 2021 of an “unknown respiratory illness.”

The woman told police that Toseland cut off her contact with her son, after which she “felt she was not free to leave” the home on the 4300 block of Saddle Brook Park Drive.

Police searched the home Tuesday after Mason’s sister came to school with a note, the police report said. Mason’s body was found in a trash bag inside a garage freezer, hidden under a false cardboard bottom and multiple items of food.

Mason’s mother told police that the boy became ill on Dec. 11 and that she wanted to seek medical care, but Toseland told her she could not. Toseland, who had dated the woman for 11 months, took Mason into a bedroom and barricaded the door, preventing the woman from entering for “a considerable amount of time,” the arrest report said.


Toseland told the woman that Mason had died but he could not show her the body “because his freedom would be taken away,” the report said. She said Toseland claimed he found Mason in bed covered in vomit and not breathing. He said he attempted CPR but could not resuscitate Mason, and the report noted that Toseland did not attempt to contact police or medical personnel.

The garage freezer where Mason was found was surrounded by multiple odor absorption bags, fans and an air filtration unit, police said.

Toseland was arrested in 2019 on a warrant stemming from a domestic violence charge the year before, according to a police report.

In 2018, Toseland accused his girlfriend at the time of cheating on him and struck her twice, police said. The woman’s name was redacted from the report.

The case was dismissed after he completed community service and impulse control classes, court records show.
Toseland also was arrested on a domestic battery charge after he punched a female relative several times in the face following an argument in September 2013 in an east Las Vegas apartment, according to a police report.

The woman, whose name was redacted from the report, left the apartment with her baby and called police. Toseland was arrested on a warrant tied to the battery charge during a traffic stop in January 2014, and court records show that the case was later dismissed.

Police: Hole in backyard likely was gravesite for 4-year-old boy

A deep hole in the backyard of a Las Vegas home likely was planned as a gravesite for the body of a 4-year-old boy who was found dead in a freezer this week, police said.

www.reviewjournal.com

 

[Blizzard]

hm

some ppl are weak and the psychopaths can pick up on it and capitalize upon it.

police haven't charged her with anything it seems. I'd bet the surviving child is reporting corresponding information. Psychopaths can be very twisting and influential.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

So I wonder if mom is going to get a piece of this gofundme to set her up with the next penis?

Because I honestly think she is going to get away with protecting that child.

According to the family’s attorney, Stephen Stubbs, Mason’s mother, and her family have already paid for all the funeral arrangements but due to the emotional and financial strain funds are still needed.

Stubbs told 8 News Now on Saturday that there was a previous GoFundMe page organized by a distant and estranged family member that ended up raising over $15,000. However, according to Stubbs that family member refused to reimburse Mason’s family for funeral expenses as promised, and is not involved in funeral arrangements in any way.

The new GoFundMe page also notes the family’s struggles over the past year including the death of Mason’s mother’s husband in 2021 and a health issue with his grandmother.

(Photo Credit: Mason Dominguez GoFundMe account)

This is and will continue to be why I do not trust most gofundmes.

I want the baby to be buried but I in no way want this mother to benefit from any of the proceeds.

Even if she was a victim she is an adult and should have done everything humanly possible to get her child out of that situation.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

$7,140 raised of $40,000 goal​

Donate to Mason's Funeral Arrangements, organized by Denise Araujo

Dear family, friends, and our community, With such saddened hearts, we create… Denise Araujo needs your support for Mason's Funeral Arrangements

www.gofundme.com

I guess the family does want to ensure the worthless mama has enough money to support the next abusive dick that comes into her life.

They have alot of nerve asking for that kind of money.

The Las Vegas man accused of killing a child and concealing his body in a freezer for several months had previously faced domestic violence charges and was ordered to attend counseling, records obtained by the 8 News Now I-Team said.

Court documents indicate Toseland pleaded nolo contendere, meaning he accepted a guilty plea but did not admit guilt, to a charge of domestic battery in 2019.

he charge stems from an incident where Toseland was accused of getting into an argument with a woman and hitting her over accusations she was cheating on him in 2018, a police report said. During the argument, Toseland reportedly punched the woman in the face, police said.

Toseland reportedly left the residence after the incident, but returned about an hour later, police said. He then hit the woman again, grabbed her phone and called 911, police said.

Toseland then left. Police noted in the report they did not know his current address.

In September 2019, a Metro police officer stopped Toseland for failing to yield to pedestrians in a sidewalk, police wrote in a report. While running his name, the officer found the warrant for the domestic battery charge.

Toseland was then taken to the Clark County Detention Center. He waived his right to a jury trial and was ordered to attend an 8-hour impulse control class, records showed.

A judge also ordered Toseland to complete 48 hours of community service and pay a fine, records showed.

Court records indicate Toseland completed impulse control counseling in December 2019.

A judge eventually sentenced Toseland to 90 days in jail, which was suspended.

Accused killer of Las Vegas boy was ordered to attend impulse control counseling

The Las Vegas man accused of killing a child and concealing his body in a freezer for several months had previously faced domestic violence charges and was ordered to attend counseling, records obt…

www.8newsnow.com

 

[Sugar Cookie]

The death penalty will be considered in the case of a Las Vegas man accused of kidnapping and killing a 4-year-old boy and hiding the body in a freezer while keeping the boy’s mother captive, a prosecutor told a judge during a brief schedule-setting hearing on Friday.

Clark County District Court Judge Tierra Jones postponed Brandon Lee Toseland’s arraignment until at least April 15 on 10 charges including murder, kidnapping and child abuse in the death of the boy and felony domestic battery alleging that he choked the child’s mother.

Toseland appeared by video hookup from the Clark County Detention Center, where he has been held without bail since his arrest Feb. 22. Defense attorney Augustus Claus said outside court Friday that Toseland, 35, will plead not guilty to all charges.

An indictment that added four counts against Toseland was filed Thursday, moving the case from local to state court for trial.

Claus said Friday that he had not received a medical examiner’s report and autopsy on the child, who according to the indictment died of internal injuries.

Prosecutors Michelle Fleck and Christopher Hamner declined outside court to comment.

The Clark County coroner’s office said rulings on a cause and manner of the child’s death were pending.

“We plan on defending the case vigorously,” Claus said in a brief interview. “There’s an entire alternate version of events that hasn’t been given a voice. We plan on being that voice.”

The mother’s lawyer, Stephen Stubbs, alleges she was physically, sexually and emotionally abused by Toseland and that her children were physically and emotionally abused and kept apart from her most of the time.


The Associated Press is not naming the mother or children to avoid identifying a victim who alleges sexual abuse. Stubbs has said the mother does not want her name made public.

The boy’s father died in January 2021 of a respiratory illness. Stubbs said the mother and her two children moved into Toseland’s home last March.

Another woman, Marylee Ruiz, who said she had two children with Toseland before ending her relationship with him about five years ago, watched in court on Friday. Ruiz said she was concerned about what her children, now ages 7 and 5, experienced while living in the house.

Death penalty possible in Vegas boy’s body-in-freezer case

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The death penalty will be considered in the case of a Las Vegas man accused of kidnapping and killing a 4-year-old boy and hiding the body in a freezer while keeping the boy’s mother captive, a prosecutor told a judge during a brief schedule-setting hearing on Friday.

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[thuumpr]

Are people SO desperate that they will 'hook up' with people that will kill their loved ones?

Granted they may not see it happening but that's clearly not true in most cases.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

The Associated Press is not naming the mother or children to avoid identifying a victim who alleges sexual abuse. Stubbs has said the mother does not want her name made public.

Waiting for mom to hook with another friend of her dead husband or even one from the baby murdering prick she looked pretty happy with after he slaughtered her child.

Keep protecting this bitch and another child will probably end up hurt or dead.

 

[Sejanus]

GoFundMe...or...How Make a Profit Off a Murder Victim.

This is far too common.

 

[Turd Fergusen]

the joint determination at that time that they would preserve Mason

What a GoFundMe.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Mom is a rancid bitch - I guess she wants a new house and someone has to pay for it.

In court documents filed this week, a man accused of holding his girlfriend captive and killing her 4-year-old son claimed the woman helped him hide the boy’s body.

Brandon Toseland, 35, was indicted this month on murder and child abuse charges in the death of Mason Dominguez, whose body was found Feb. 22 in a freezer at Toseland’s northeast valley home. Mason’s mother, 28-year-old Dahsia Maldonado, told a grand jury in March that Toseland physically abused her and held her captive for months until she was able to sneak a note to school officials with her 7-year-old daughter, Rylie.

In March, Maldonado filed a wrongful death and negligence lawsuit against Toseland. On Wednesday, Toseland filed a counterclaim in the suit, alleging that Mason’s mother was aware that the boy had died in December, and that the two “made the joint determination at that time that they would preserve Mason until … they could accumulate the funds to bury him,” according to court documents.

Attorney Lisa Rasmussen, who is representing Maldonado and her family, said in a statement that Toseland’s counterclaim “demonstrates his ongoing campaign of abuse against my client,” and that Mason’s mother denies the “fantastical claims made by Toseland.”

“We can have confidence in law enforcement and prosecutors that they have accurately evaluated all of the evidence and that they have sought criminal charges against the person they believe, as do we, is responsible for Mason’s death,” Rasmussen said.

Maldonado has not faced charges in connection with Mason’s death.

Toseland’s counterclaim was filed by defense attorney Craig Mueller, who is also representing him in the criminal case.

Mueller wrote that after Mason’s death, Maldonado and Toseland “continued their daily pattern” and that Toseland’s two children, whom he had joint custody of, “were apparently unaware that either Rylie or Dahsia were allegedly confined separately or, for that matter, confined in the home at all.”

The counterclaim also included an affidavit from Toseland’s sister, Adrian Reyes, who claimed that in mid-December, Maldonado told her that Mason was staying with another family member, according to court documents.

Maldonado testified to a grand jury that she moved in with Toseland in March 2021 after her husband, Elijah Dominguez, had recently died. Court records show that the mother of Toseland’s children was Elijah Dominguez’s sister.

Maldonado said Toseland started to become possessive, controlling how she spent her money, restricting where she went, and randomly taking her phone, according to grand jury transcripts. She also said he would “get physical,” shoving her and placing her in chokeholds.

On Dec. 10, Mason said he wasn’t feeling well, and Toseland took the child into a bedroom and locked the door, according to court documents.

Maldonado said she was then confined to a bedroom and was often handcuffed when she and Toseland left the house.

Man accused of killing 4-year-old says boy’s mother helped him hide the body

In court documents filed last week, a man accused of holding his girlfriend captive and killing her 4-year-old son claimed the woman helped him hide the boy’s body.

www.reviewjournal.com

 

[Sugar Cookie]

The Clark County Office of the Coroner/Medical Examiner released the cause and manner of death on Wednesday of Mason Dominguez, a 4-year-old who was killed in December 2021.

The Coroner ruled the cause of death as blunt force injuries and the manner as homicide.

Clark County Coroner releases cause and manner of death for 4-year-old killed and kept in freezer

The Clark County Office of the Coroner/Medical Examiner released the cause and manner of death on Wednesday of Mason Dominguez, a 4-year-old who was killed in December 2021.

www.fox5vegas.com

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A grand jury reviewed a heartbreaking piece of evidence in the case against Brandon Lee Toseland, a Las Vegas man accused of murdering his girlfriend's son and hiding the 4-year-old's body in a freezer.

A new exhibit in the case is a drawing by the boy's now 7-year-old sister that appears to show Toseland "choking" her.

The girl drew two figures, a man and a girl. Arrows label the man as "Brandon" and the girl as "me." "Brandon," frowning, has his arms wrapped around the girl's neck and appears to be lifting her off the ground. At the top, the child captioned the drawing, "He is choking me!"

Toseland, 35, was already facing at least 10 felony charges in connection with the murder of 4-year-old Mason Dominguez and allegations that he kidnapped Mason's mother and held her against her will.

According to the indictment obtained by KTNV, Toseland is accused of choking the girl, identified by her initials, on two separate occasions. In one instance, prosecutors allege Toseland choked the girl with a vacuum cord. In the other instance, they say he used his arm.

Man accused of killing 4-year-old faces new charges after child's drawing shows him 'choking' her

A child's drawing and testimony before a grand jury were used as evidence to charge Brandon Toseland, 35, with two additional counts of felony child abuse this month.

www.ktnv.com

 

[Satanica]

The sister would've been next.