Sadie Fleming, 27, was charged with murder after Connecticut State Police said that she drowned her 1-month-old son Hudson Fleming in June. According to an arrest warrant reviewed by Law&Crime, Fleming was reportedly having troubling symptoms the night before she and Hudson went missing, including an episode during which she believed "people were after her."
An unnamed woman who was living with Fleming and her baby said that she last saw the new mother and child turning in for the night at around midnight on June 8. The next morning, they were both gone.
The woman told police that Fleming had a history of psychiatric issues and had just started a new medication the day before she and Hudson went missing. The information prompted police to issue a Silver Alert for Fleming and Hudson, and it did not take long before someone spotted a woman matching Fleming's description.
According to the warrant, an unidentified woman called 911 to report that her daughter saw someone who looked like Fleming walking alone in her neighborhood in Washington. State troopers responded to the scene and found Fleming on Blackville Road. She was reportedly "soaking wet and her mental status appeared to be altered." Fleming was asked where her baby was, and she reportedly responded, "What baby?"
Police who encountered Fleming said that she seemed to be "extremely paranoid and panicked," and "did not know her own name" or where she was. Fleming eventually calmed down, but then became "unresponsive" and was taken to the hospital.
At the same time, a search was happening nearby for Hudson, whose lifeless body was found in a "small body of water." Found near Hudson's body was an infant carrier and a vape pen, both of which were identified as belonging to Fleming. An autopsy concluded that his cause of death was drowning.
Continue readingAccording to police, Fleming told the woman while she was in the hospital that in the early hours of June 8, she purportedly hid in a closet with Hudson because she thought "people were after her." Fleming also described running through "the woods, the river, and a field" and cutting her hands on barbed wire. She also said of Hudson, "He's gone, I've lost him."
When police questioned Fleming, she told them a similar story, adding that the people who were purportedly after her were also "trying to kill her." She told police that days earlier, she began having thoughts that "Illuminati people" were trying to "get" her.
Woman spotted 'soaking wet' before her 1-month-old baby was found dead in a brook: Police
A Connecticut woman who triggered a Silver Alert after she and her 1-month-old baby went missing is now charged in the infant's murder.
