How horror car crash exposed chilling family secret that could see mum jailed for life

A car clang claiming the lives of a dada and girl - and leaving the mum successful infirmary with superior injuries - has revealed a horrific household secret

When a car clang killed begetter Steven Collins, 40, and his girl Raleigh, 2, the calamity didn't extremity there. Mum Wendy Bailey, 22, was hospitalised aft the tragic mishap but determination was besides idiosyncratic missing from the car, which led to a full caller investigation.

For portion begetter and girl died and mum Wendy Bailey was successful a superior information successful hospital, determination was nary motion of the family's one-year-old lad Kahleb Rowan Collins.

Friends and extended household began to inquire questions astir the small boy's whereabouts and it has since emerged that helium not been seen for months.

Yet it was lone aft the car clang that killed his begetter Steven and sister Raleigh, that Kahleb was reported missing and radical started to fishy a crime whitethorn person been committed.

Steven was driving the the family's motortruck with Wendy and Raleigh arsenic passengers, adjacent their location successful Alabama, erstwhile the clang happened connected December 8. The motortruck careered disconnected the roadworthy astatine 92mph earlier colliding with a tree, according to Alabama State Troopers.

The conveyance was torn successful 2 by the unit of the interaction resulting successful the deaths of dada Steven and girl Raleigh, portion mum Wendy was rushed to infirmary wherever paramedics fought to prevention her life.

But the communicative doesn't extremity determination - arsenic radical began to inquire questions astir the whereabouts of Raleigh's member Kahleb, the section sheriff's bureau was informed helium hadn't been seen since aboriginal September, 3 months anterior to the crash.

Mum Wendy admitted to officers from her infirmary furniture that she had failed to study her missing son. She besides admitted the kid had suffered carnal injuries and had been removed from the location and taken to an chartless location.

The mum was released from infirmary connected December 30 and instantly transported to the adjacent Fayette County Jail and charged successful transportation with the deaths of some of her children.

She is accused of causing her daughter’s death, who was not wearing a seatbelt oregon successful a car spot erstwhile they crashed, failing to study maltreatment of her son, and displaying “extreme indifference” to the worth of her son’s life.

On December 11, Kahleb’s gramps John Elton Bailey, who was besides surviving with the family, was besides taken into custody for failing to study a missing child.

Investigators past filed a "corpse maltreatment complaint" which revealed the shocking details of what they present judge Kahleb endured successful the days and weeks starring up to his presumed death.

It said the parent admitted to “failing to intervene" connected "more than 2 occasions" erstwhile Khaleb was physically abused by "torturous means specified arsenic being bound with rope, physically assaulted, and being bound by a enactment from a loft with humor and bruising present.”

The parent claimed her precocious fiance Collins had sent her photographs of their babe lad that nary genitor should ever receive. These images showed the babe hanging from a enactment successful a loft, his tiny assemblage bloodied and bruised, according to the Daily Mail. 'He won't move,' Collins texted aft sending the images to Bailey, followed by different connection saying 'I'm truthful sorry.'

Soon aft Khaleb's dada messaged 'He moving,' to which Bailey replied: 'He conscionable looks wore retired and tried and wounded hopefully that's all.'

The small lad has not yet been recovered and investigators are inactive looking for clues arsenic to his whereabouts.

Wendy Pamela Jean Bailey was arrested connected December 1 and booked into the Fayette County Jail connected $100,000 bail. She faces charges of aggravated kid abuse, home violence, maltreatment of a corpse and criminally negligent homicide - which could enactment her down bars for life, according to the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office.