Tiny foot sticking out of shallow grave belongs to nine-year-old boy 'killed by mom who fled state'

A grisly find successful a Detroit backyard has sent shockwaves done the assemblage aft the tiny ft of a kid was seen protruding from a shallow grave.

It led constabulary to uncover the remains of a nine-year-old lad allegedly murdered by his ain mother. 

The woman, 41-year-old Brandee Katrice Pierce, fled the authorities successful what authorities judge was a calculated effort to escape, but she is present successful custody.

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy revealed the harrowing details of the lawsuit astatine a property league connected Wednesday. 

According to investigators, Pierce allegedly bound her son's hands and feet before  smothering him and burying his lifeless assemblage down her rental location successful northwest Detroit earlier vanishing to Georgia with her surviving three-year-old son. 

The calamity lone came to airy connected January 6 erstwhile a landlord preparing the location for a caller tenant stumbled upon the horrific country and noticed the quality remains protruding from the ungraded successful the backyard. 

Police were rapidly connected the country with the Wayne County Medical Examiner's bureau aboriginal ruling the decease a homicide, confirming the child, identified arsenic Zemar King III, had died from compression to the cervix and smothering.

Authorities judge the execution occurred successful precocious October 2024.

Pierce near the location lone weeks aboriginal yet abandoning the Detroit location connected November 6, and traveling to Cobb County, Georgia, wherever she was surviving successful evident homelessness with her child.

A breakthrough successful the lawsuit came successful December days earlier Christmas erstwhile constabulary successful Brookhaven, Georgia, initiated an unrelated probe concerning Pierce's younger son. 

During the inquiry, authorities made interaction with Detroit police, mounting disconnected a concatenation of events that yet led to the mother's arrest. 

Pierce was apprehended successful Georgia past period connected January 10 and present faces extradition to Michigan.

'I person stood astatine this podium galore many times and talked astir however horrific, tragic and shocking definite cases are, each clip reasoning determination could beryllium aboriginal alleged facts that could beryllium worse than what I'm talking astir astatine the time,' Worthy said.

'This is 1 of the astir callous and horrifying cases I person ever encountered. Every clip I deliberation I person seen the worst, different lawsuit similar this emerges. Well, that time has come, again. 

'I person been a authoritative for a agelong time, and I often accidental that I person seen it all. The horrors of this kid maltreatment lawsuit defy that. The alleged actions of this suspect are among the astir callous I person seen and anticipation ne'er to spot again.'

Detroit Police Chief Todd Bettison echoed Worthy's sentiments, assuring the nationalist that justness would beryllium served. 

'We are assured determination volition beryllium accountability for this,' helium said firmly astatine the property briefing.

Pierce is present facing a slew of charges, including first-degree premeditated murder, first-degree felony murder, first-degree kid abuse, tampering with evidence, and concealing the decease of an individual. 

If convicted of the execution charge, she faces a mandatory beingness condemnation without parole.

While legal proceedings unfold, Pierce's three-year-old lad remains successful the attraction of kid protective services.