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Sentenced: Woman arrested after 7yo Caden found dead in Denver storage unit

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A woman has surrendered in the death of what is believed to be her 7-year-old son whose body was found in a storage unit two days before Christmas, the Denver Police Department said Thursday.

Police received information from the Aurora Police Department on Dec. 23 regarding the missing boy.

Investigating officers were led to a storage where the body was found.

The boy has not been identified by the Denver Office of the Medical Center, which said the investigation is still pending after an autopsy.

However, two sources confirmed to KDVR that the boy's name was Camden and his body had been in the storage unit for "a long time."

On Wednesday, Elisha Pankey, 43, turned herself in to Denver police. She is being held for investigation of child abuse resulting in death. She was arrested on Dec. 22 by Aurora police for heroin possession at a hotel.
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Police said Thursday that 43-year-old Elisha Pankey was being held in jail on investigation of child abuse resulting in death. She turned herself in on Wednesday.

Police found the boy Dec. 23 after getting information from police in neighboring Aurora.

The court document laying out the reasons for her arrest is sealed. Police said they wouldn't release any other information because the investigation is ongoing.

Court records show Pankey was charged with drug possession in Aurora two days before the boy was found. A call to the public defender's office representing her in that case wasn't returned.

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“When I saw the news, I balled my fist, and I cried, ‘Oh my God, how can you do this? How dare you hurt that little boy?’” said Tina Wright, Pankey’s former landlord. “He was so beautiful. So, innocent.”

Wright said she was aware of financial issues Pankey’s family was experiencing. She said she was often giving them extra time to pay their rent.

Wright also said she knew of alleged domestic disputes that took place in the apartment, and elsewhere, between Pankey and her husband. However, Wright did not expect the violence would ever place Caden as a victim.


“She changed from this outgoing person, to this hermit who just wanted to stay in her house,” Wright said.

Wright, and others at the Cherry Plaza Apartments remember when Pankey lived there. She said, before the family was evicted, she remembered Caden riding his scooter and visiting office staff often.


“He was a sweet boy. He played. He was very quiet. He would play outside with his toys. You would talk to him, he would talk to you,” Wright said. “You would give something to him, and he would say, ‘Thank you, Miss Tina.’”

“I just want justice for him,” Wright said.
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However, two sources confirmed to FOX31 that the boy's name was Caden and his body had been in the storage unit for "a long time."
Fucking seriously? Two people knew? The whole time or just found out? If they knew the whole time, fuck’em. They need to have charges.

APD said no one had contacted the department about a missing child.
Again, fucking seriously????!!! Nobody misses this child?
Mercy sakes alive....that child is beautiful. I would have taken him in a heartbeat and given him everything that heroin crackcunt didn’t.
You washed up junkie whore....you go ahead and fuck your own life up but noooo, you had to literally take him down with you. Only problem is you’re still waisting oxygen and he sat in a storage facility for god knows how long.
What i wouldn’t give for 15 min of alone time with her.
I’ll say this....these storage units need to be monitored more. There’s crazy shit people hide and do in them and this is a perfect example.
 
Olivia said:
Sounds sketchy as fuck to me and that’s exactly how I read it.


You’re probably right but then again, nobody noticed this child missing? No relatives?
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I only speculated on the "two sources". Police departments have leakers too.

As for not reporting the child missing, maybe people were ignoring the situation, but it also sounds like mom turned into a junkie recluse. Maybe she cut off contact with family or lied a lot. I'm suspicious too, but waiting for facts.
 
Muriel Schwenck said:
I only speculated on the "two sources". Police departments have leakers too.

As for not reporting the child missing, maybe people were ignoring the situation, but it also sounds like mom turned into a junkie recluse. Maybe she cut off contact with family or lied a lot. I'm suspicious too, but waiting for facts.
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Tonight’s not one of those patient nights for me...I’m playin judge, jury and executioner. Every now and then I’ll go that route...which is usually my sign to not read anymore.
 
HOLY FUCK!!!
This poor little guy has likely been dead since MAY 2018.
His little body dead- encased in concrete in a storage unit for 7 MONTHS AND NOONE, NOT ONE FUCKING PERSON NOTICED HE WAS GONE?!
NOONE SAID "HEY, WHERE IS CADEN?"

7 FUCKING MONTHS and not one person said anything, or called police/ CPS when they hadn't seen him? Noone shook the fuck out of that cunt, demanding to see him or demanding to know where he was?
Beyond heartbreaking.

The body of the 7-year-old boy found dead last month in a Denver storage unit was encased in concrete, multiple sources with knowledge of the investigation told The Denver Post.

The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity, citing the ongoing investigation.

Steve Castro, spokesman for the Denver coroner’s office, declined to comment on whether Caden McWilliams’s body was found in concrete. Law enforcement officials have publicly identified the boy, but Castro said the staff in the coroner’s office was still trying to officially confirm the identity of the child two weeks after the body was found. Coroner’s investigators also have not yet been able to say whether the child was male or female, he said.

Denver police declined to comment on whether McWilliams’s body was found encased in concrete, spokesman Jay Casillas said. Police estimated that the boy had been dead since at least May.

The Denver District Attorney’s Office on Monday charged the boy’s mother, Elisha Pankey, with child abuse resulting in death and abuse of a corpse in connection with her son’s death. The abuse of corpse charge states Pankey, “treated the body or remains of a person in a way that would outrage normal family sensibilities…”

The charging documents say Pankey either knowingly or recklessly caused an injury or unreasonably placed her son in a situation that posed a threat of injury to the child resulting in his death. Pankey, 43, remained in jail Monday on a $250,000 bond. The district attorney filed formal charges against her Monday morning.

“Thanks to the tenacious work by both the Aurora and Denver police departments, we now know that young Caden was not only missing for several months, he was no longer alive. This is a terrible tragedy for the community,” Denver District Attorney Beth McCann said in a news release. “While this case will take time to resolve, it will take even longer for our community to learn and heal.”

Identifying a child’s body is more difficult than those of adults because they typically don’t have fingerprints on file, Castro said. Experts also can use dental records if they are available or DNA to confirm a person’s identity. The coroner’s office has completed an autopsy, but has not yet determined the cause of Caden’s death.

Authorities will take into account findings of a police investigation before making a determination. “We need to get the full story from police about what happened,” Castro said. “We take into account what police actually find.” A judge has sealed the case file and no other details on the death will be released, the DA’s office said.

Caden McWilliams’ body was found in a self-storage unit on East Evans Avenue in southeast Denver on Dec. 23 after Aurora police sent a tip to the Denver Police Department. Authorities have not said when Aurora police began looking for the boy or who reported him missing.

Denver police estimate Caden had been dead since late May, according to 2018 homicide data provided to The Denver Post through an open records request. Pankey turned herself in to Denver police on Wednesday.

On Dec. 22, Aurora police arrested her on suspicion of heroin possession after finding the drug in a pill bottle in her hotel room.
On Dec. 21, police arrested Leland Pankey, who is in a relationship with Elisha Pankey, on warrant for a 2017 second-degree assault. Leland Pankey was accused of strangling her, according to court records. He is being held in the Downtown Detention Center on a $25,000 bond.

State child fatality records indicate Colorado human services at some point in the past three years likely was involved with Caden’s family. A state database shows an investigation into the death of an unnamed 7-year-old boy was launched on Dec. 24, one day after Caden’s body was found. Caden had been a student at Ellis Elementary School in Denver during the 2017-2018 school year. The school released a statement Thursday saying the boy was sweet, performed well in academics and was a model student.
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court documents and police have said the boy could have died as early as last May. Police and Denver Public Schools have indicated the boy missed the last week of school in May.
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according to the former assistant principal at his school. School leaders told the Problem Solvers that in August, they received word that McWilliams would be home-schooled for the 2018-2019 school year. However, FOX31 has learned Denver police now believe McWilliams was already dead in August. The department estimated his death date as May 24.
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there is a strong suspicion Pankey never home-shooled her son. In Colorado, parents who home-school their children are required to provide 172 days of education a year, but there is no real enforcement to prove that is taking place. In order to home-school a child, a parent merely has to notify a school district in writing 14 days prior to home schooling, but it doesn't even have to be the district the family lives in. For instance, a Denver parent can notify a school district in Grand Junction to satisfy Colorado requirements.
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But i have so many questions...
At this link https://denver.cbslocal.com/2019/01...rage-unit-denver-child-abuse-abuse-of-corpse/
about halfway down the page is Leland Pankey's arrest affidavit, for the Nov 27th 2017 DV incident, it says that they had been in an intimate relationship for appx 3 years. Soooo 2014 til now would make their child appx 5 years old. Caden would be 6 or possibly 7 at the time of his death (depending on bday and date of death) ? Or am I not seeing something correctly?

How is he Caden's father? Am I missing something? Was he his father? Or was he just her husband and not Caden's dad?
 
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At this link https://denver.cbslocal.com/2019/01...rage-unit-denver-child-abuse-abuse-of-corpse/
about halfway down the page is Leland Pankey's arrest affidavit, for the Nov 27th 2017 DV incident, it says that they had been in an intimate relationship for appx 3 years. Soooo 2014 til now would make their child appx 5 years old. Caden would be 6 or possibly 7 at the time of his death (depending on bday and date of death) ? Or am I not seeing something correctly?

How is he Caden's father? Am I missing something? Was he his father? Or was he just her husband and not Caden's dad?
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I figured since Caden's last name is McWilliams, not Pankey, Leland was not his father. Which would explain why he wouldn't care about the lad because the rentadicks never do.
 
The child who was found dead and encased in concrete in a Denver storage shed in December was malnourished and had cocaine metabolite and methamphetamine in his system, according a new report from the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner. The report ruled the manner of death was homicide.

In the report, which was released Friday, a forensic pathologist found that Caden McWilliams, who was 7 years old when he died, was malnourished at the time of his death. He had numerous injuries to his head, torso and extremities, some of which were healing, according to the autopsy. Cocaine metabolite and methamphetamine were detected in his liver tissue.

It’s possible that McWilliams had complications from his injuries, like infections or sepsis. He also may have suffered from asphyxia, dehydration or hyperthermia, which could not be confirmed, according to the autopsy.

The boy’s body was brought to the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner in plastic bags bound with duct tape and encased in concrete inside an animal crate, according to the report.

Taking his injuries into account with the suspicious nature of his death, the forensic pathologist said the manner of death is a homicide. The cause of death could not be determined, the forensic pathologist said.
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Drugs found in body of boy found encased in concrete in storage unit: medical examiner

DENVER (KMGH) — The child who was found dead and encased in concrete in a Denver storage shed in December was malnourished and had cocaine metabolite and methamphetamine in his system, according a …
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The woman said Pankey told her that sometime in July they kept him in the carrier overnight despite his cries of being thirsty and hot.

Pankey said the boy was dead by morning and she believed he had suffocated, the records state.

The woman told police that Pankey said she and her husband took the boy's body — still inside the animal carrier —to the storage unit, poured concrete over him and wrapped the carrier in plastic trash bags.
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Police: Mom told details of son's death to fellow inmate

A Colorado woman charged in the death of her 7-year-old son told a fellow inmate that the boy died in July, months before his body was discovered encased in concrete inside a Denver storage unit, according to court records unsealed Tuesday.
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Real justice for this boy would be putting this bitch in the smallest animal carrier possible and locking her in a storage unit and forgetting that she ever existed.
 
Sixteen pages of court documents released Tuesday reveal new details about Elisha Pankey, the mother accused of killing her 7-year-old son whose body was found encased in concrete in a southeast Denver storage unit in December. The documents also include new information about Elisha’s husband Leland Pankey.

Elisha, 43, was charged with child abuse resulting in death and abuse of a corpse in connection to the death of her son Caden McWilliams and is due back in Denver County Court on April 2.

Caden’s body was found in a storage unit on Dec. 23, 2018. Elisha surrendered to the Denver Police Department.

Elisha’s arrest affidavit was one of the main documents released Tuesday by the Denver District Attorney’s Office. It details the events that led to her being charged in her son’s death, including being allegedly abused by Leland at an Extended Stay hotel in Aurora. Leland also allegedly threatened to kill Elisha.

On Dec. 21, 2018, Aurora and Denver police coordinated to monitor the TownePlace Suites at Marriott hotel where Leland was reportedly staying. When officers saw Leland enter the lobby, he was arrested by uniformed Denver Police Department officers.

An officer asked Leland where his daughter and Caden were. Leland said his daughter was at an Aurora daycare center, but changed the subject when asked about Caden.

DPD officers checked Leland’s hotel room for Caden but could not locate the boy.

Officers then went to a daycare center, while they found Leland’s daughter, they could not locate Caden. At this point, officers went to speak with Elisha.

Elisha told an officer that she had driven a BMW X5 to another Extended Stay hotel in Greenwood Village in the Denver Tech Center. Officers found the SUV in the hotel’s parking lot and saw a number of large plastic totes in the back seat and saw an air freshener.

“Officers became suspicious that this vehicle, and the totes may contain evidence related to Caden’s disappearance,” the affidavit states.

The vehicle was secured by the Aurora Police Department and towed to the Aurora Vehicle Impound Lot.

Then, Denver officers returned to the Marriott to conduct a more thorough search of the hotel room for Caden. They were unable to find Caden. However, they did find approximately $40,000 in cash.

A detective later went to the daycare center and spoke with staff. The detective learned that on Nov. 29, 2018, during the enrollment process, Leland said he wanted his daughter to be social with other kids because she had lost her brother.

A daycare employee said Leland said something similar to, “He was sick and we couldn’t help him,” and something along the lines of, “He had died,” in reference to Caden.

While searching the Extended Stay room in which Elisha was living, officers found heroin. Elisha was charged with possession of a controlled substance and booked.

According to the affidavit, investigators learned that the principal of Caden’s school said the boy last attended the school on May 24, 2018. On Aug. 24, 2018, Elisha went to the school and said she intended to home-school Caden.

Additionally, the affidavit states that a detective contacted Leland’s mother, who lives in Virginia. The woman stated that Leland told her Caden had died earlier in 2018. She also said her son mentioned wanting to get rid of items in a storage unit.

While searching Elisha’s Extended Stay room, officers found a business card for Public Storage. On Dec. 23, 2018, Aurora police got a search warrant and cut the lock on the storage unit belonging to the Pankeys.

“Detectives discovered a large object sealed in numerous layers of plastic. Detectives removed a few layers of the plastic, at which time they could smell the distinct odor of a decomposed body,” the affidavit states. Cadaver dogs were brought to the storage unit and alerted officers to the object covered in plastic.

The DPD homicide unit was contacted and investigators began processing the crime scene after getting another search warrant. They found empty bags of Quikrete and a number of plastic water bottles.

“It appeared that the large item covered in plastic that the cadaver dogs alerted on contained cement,” the affidavit states.

After photographing and measuring evidence, the DPD crime lab began removing the plastic from the large object. A large plastic animal cage was found inside, and there was a large chunk of cement inside the animal cage.

A DPD bomb technician took X-rays of the object, but the results were inconclusive.

The animal crate was taken to the Denver Coroner’s Office. On Dec. 24, 2018, a child’s body was found inside the concrete.

While speaking with a fellow jail inmate, Elisha said Leland forced Caden to go into the animal carrier. Elisha said she would also make Caden go into the animal carrier when she took showers. According to the affidavit, some time in July, Elisha found Caden dead in the animal carrier. Elisha told the inmate that she and Leland then took the animal carrier to the storage unit, filled it with concrete and covered it in industrial-strength trash bags.

Autopsy results released earlier this month showed Caden had evidence of cocaine and methamphetamine in his liver.

Caden was malnourished and had signs of abuse including injuries on his head and body, according to the coroner’s report.

The coroner could not determine the cause of death.

The report says he may have also suffered from dehydration, asphyxiation and hypothermia but those results could not be confirmed.

Leland appeared in court in December 2018 for an assault charge stemming from an incident that allegedly occurred between him and Elisha in 2017.
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Court documents reveal new details about death of 7-year-old boy found in Denver storage unit

DENVER — Sixteen pages of court documents released Tuesday reveal new details about Elisha Pankey, the mother accused of killing her 7-year-old son whose body was found encased in concrete in…
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This little boy's life must have been filled with pain and loneliness.

It breaks my heart to think that he was put in a cage while alive and that it became his coffin.

The mom is going to use the battered crack head excuse- but she needs to be put in a cage like she did to her son and stay there until she rots.
 
Ripley said:
Males, don’t use your partner & kids as punching bags. Also, be better fathers so your daughters don’t pick losers like this guy
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Agreed, 100%. The only reason I chided women first, is that they have the awesome privilege of conceiving, bearing, and caring for the child before anyone else. Even in nature, the mother protects the child, even giving her life for them. Males, ALWAYS, kill offspring of another male. And since people in today's society have reverted to the bestial, I thought of that example first.
 
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Colorado prosecutors on Thursday charged the father of a 7-year-old boy whose body was found encased in concrete inside a Denver storage unit with murder.

The Denver district attorney's office also charged Leland Pankey, 39, with child abuse resulting in death and tampering with a dead body. He is serving a state prison sentence on unrelated charges.

Court records also released Thursday indicate that the boy's mother cooperated with investigators as she faces charges of child abuse resulting in death and abuse of a corpse in his death. The records say Pankey and her attorneys met with investigators in March, about two months after she was charged.

The records says Elisha Pankey told police that the family moved into a hotel at the end of May 2018 and she knew her husband physically abused Caden and was not feeding the boy. Elisha Pankey also told police that her husband kept their son in a dog kennel "a few days" before he died in mid-July.

Previously released court records said Elisha Pankey told a fellow inmate that they kept the boy in the carrier overnight despite his cries of being thirsty and hot. Pankey said the boy was dead one morning and she believed he had suffocated, those records state.

The woman, who is not identified in the court records, told police that Pankey said she and her husband took the boy's body — still inside the animal carrier —to the storage unit, poured concrete over him and wrapped the carrier in plastic trash bags.

Authorities did not find McWilliams' body until December as they investigated Elisha Pankey's allegations of domestic violence against Leland Pankey. An autopsy found signs that McWilliams was severely emaciated and evidence of injuries to his head, chest and limbs, some of which showed signs of healing.
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Dad of boy found in Denver storage unit charged with murder

A Colorado man was charged with murder Thursday after prosecutors say he’s responsible for the death of his 7-year-old son whose body was found encased in concrete in a Denver storage unit last year.
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The mother of a 7-year-old boy whose body was found in a Denver storage unit two days before Christmas entered a guilty plea in court on Thursday morning.

Elisha Pankey, 43, plead guilty to child abuse resulting in the death of her 7-year-old son Caden McWilliams.

Pankey faces 16-32 years in the Department of Corrections.
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Mother of 7-year-old boy found encased in concrete in Denver storage unit pleads guilty to abuse

DENVER — A mother pleaded guilty Thursday to child abuse resulting in the death of her 7-year-old son whose body was found in a Denver storage unit, in a deal requiring her cooperation with p…
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