Sentenced: Vienna Mom Charged After Remains Of Missing 4YO Son Found

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A Vienna mom is now facing a murder charge after her 4-year-old son was reported missing days ago.

According to the GBI, 27-year-old Keara Cotton is facing a charge of murder and concealing the death of another, in addition to her previous charges of cruelty to children.

News of the new charges comes after investigators say they found human remains. They will be sent to the GBI's Crime Lab to be identified.

The investigation began around 12:30 p.m. Sunday when Vienna Police asked the GBI for help in finding 4-year-old Jayceion Mathis.

Family members reported him missing after not seeing him for several months. The GBI said authorities couldn’t find his mother, Keara Cotton, after the report was filed.

On Monday, she was arrested and charged with two counts of cruelty to children.

GBI: Vienna mom now charged with murder, human remains found after 4-year-old reported missing

Investigators said Tuesday they found human remains in Cordele

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Vienna police shared new information Thursday on the events leading up to the arrest of a midstate mother for the murder of her 4-year-old son.

Officials said during a press conference Thursday morning that the Department of Family and Children Services contacted Vienna police on January 20 about getting in touch with Keara Cotton and her children.

DFCS told police they had tried to make contact several times but were unsuccessful. Cotton was known to have two children -- an 8-year-old daughter and her 4-year-old son, Jayceon Mathis.

January 20 was also the day that Cotton's own family reported Jayceon as missing to the authorities after they hadn't physically seen him in several months.

After family members made that missing person's report, officials said Cotton disappeared.

Vienna police began checking up on Cotton's residence Thursday night into Friday but said they couldn't reach her.

On Friday, January 21, police said Cotton asked her mother to pick up her 8-year-old daughter from school. Cotton told her mother that she'd bring Jayceon with her later so his grandmother could see him.

Police said Cotton failed to follow through on this and officers continued to be unsuccessful in getting in touch with her.


By last Saturday, police had conducted several interviews and they said their "concerns grew that Cotton had been abusing both of her children."

This week, human remains were located in Crisp County in a woodline along E. Sixteenth St. behind Ollie's and Wendy's that officials believe are Jayceon's.

Those remains were taken to the GBI's Crime Lab in Atlanta for an autopsy that was finished on Wednesday, but authorities are still waiting for a final positive identification on them.

Police said Thursday that they believe Jayceon was killed in Dooly County. They believe his remains were left where they were later found in Crisp County because Cotton was on the run by then.

Officials are currently working through more interviews and awaiting the autopsy results.

Police believe Vienna mom accused of murder left son's remains behind shopping center

DOOLY COUNTY, Ga. (WGXA) -- Vienna police shared new information Thursday on the events leading up to the arrest of a midstate mother for the murder of her 4-year-old son. Officials said during a press conference Thursday morning that the Department of Family and Children Services contacted...

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Prosecutors say Keara Cotton, 31, admitted to her role in the death of her 4-year-old child Jayceion Mathis on Wednesday — which would have been Mathis' 9th birthday.

She pleaded guilty and was sentenced to serve 25 years in a Georgia prison.

"I can think of no better justice for Jayceion than the conviction of his murderer on his birthday," Rigby said in a statement. "The District Attorney's Office is thankful to speak for the children who have no voice and preserve justice for them."

They say Mathis died in her care and, after the death, Cotton fled her home and discarded Mathis' remains in a field behind a Cordele shopping center. The child's body was found in 2022 wrapped in a shopping bag and shower curtain, the release said.

Investigators never determined Mathis' cause of death, since the body was badly decomposed.

He says Mathis' feet were cut off, He suggests that Cotton was trying to prevent investigators from matching the child's footprints and tracing the death back to her.

"This woman took a baby and killed it," Wright said. 'What the cause of death was, I don't know, but the feet were taken off post mortem."

When a baby is born, a foot print is taken, which has the same identifying characteristics as a finger print. Eventually, DNA helped investigators identify Mathis and led them to Cotton.

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'No better justice' | Dooly County mother convicted in son's murder — on what would've been his 9th birthday

Keara Cotton's son, Jayceion Mathis, was found dead in a field behind a Cordele shopping center back in 2022. Now, she's plead guilty in his death.

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