In April 2010, 44-year-old Angela, the mother of an 11-year-old boy from a previous relationship, married David Davis. The boy, a red-headed fifth-grader named Jonathan Foster, lived with his paternal grandmother. In November 2010 the child moved into the Houston, Texas duplex with his mother and new stepfather.
When he was drunk, David Davis became violent. One of his assaults sent Angela to the hospital. On December 14, 2010, after Mr. Davis slapped his stepson in the face, Angela and Jonathan moved a hundred feet away into the apartment of a woman who had befriended her.
In the early afternoon of December 24, 2010, a woman who referred to herself as Jonathan's babysitter, spoke on the telephone to one of Angela's co-workers at a meat market where she was employed as a cashier. The caller who said she was Angela's babysitter wanted to speak to the mother. The meat market co-worker passed the message on to Angela who said she didn't have a babysitter. Angela called the number left by the woman and she answered the phone. Just before the line went dead Angela heard her son's voice. She rushed home to check on her son. The boy was not in the apartment. Fearing foul play Angela Davis called 911 and reported her son missing.
Detectives with the Houston Police Department, from the beginning, treated the case as a possible kidnapping. The police, suspecting Angela's estranged husband David, questioned him closely. David Davis said he had checked on Jonathan just 25 minutes before Angela came home and found him missing. At that time the boy was playing a video game. "There's no doubt in my mind that he's been snatched," the stepfather said. "I think a pedophile took him."
As investigators questioned other members of the missing boy's family, neighbors and volunteers handed out fliers. Angela went on television and said this to the abductor: "Don't hurt my baby." On the possibility that Jonathan had been kidnapped by a stranger, detectives questioned fifty registered sex offenders in the northwest Houston area.
On December 28, 2010, four days after Jonathan went missing, a Houston Police Department's K-9 unit recovery dog detected what turned out to be the boy's badly charred remains. (Jonathan Foster had to be identified by dental records.) The body, bound with twine, had been dumped into a ditch four miles from his residence. Near the corpse detectives found a welder's torch.
Surveillance camera footage from a building near Jonathan's body showed a silver Ford pickup truck pulling up to the site at six o'clock on Christmas eve. A black woman got out of the vehicle, reached into the bed of the truck, took out what appeared to be a body and placed it into the ditch.
Detectives quickly identified the woman in the truck as 44-year-old Mona Yvette Nelson, an acquaintance of the woman who had been sharing her apartment with Angela and Jonathan. Two weeks earlier, Mona, a maintenance worker at the apartment complex, had met the boy's stepfather. According to witnesses Mona Nelson had been seen recently in the vicinity of the murdered child's apartment.
As a maintenance employee, Mona Nelson had worked with acetylene torches and various types of welding equipment. A former boxer, she had been convicted in 1984 of aggravated robbery which brought a ten-year probated sentence. Nelson had since been arrested for various drug charges and for making terroristic threats against another woman. The suspect owned a truck that looked like the silver Ford driven by the woman seen on surveillance tapes dumping the body into the ditch.
On December 30, 2011 at a press conference, a spokesperson for the Houston Police Department announced that Mona Nelson, charged with capital murder, had been arrested for Jonathan Foster's death. Having been denied bond the suspect was incarcerated in the Harris County Jail. In a search of her northwest Houston residence detectives found twine similar to the cordage found on Jonathan's body. Officers also recovered an acetylene tank used in welding. Sections of Nelson's carpet had been recently burned.
According to the police spokesperson, Nelson under police questioning admitted dumping Jonathan's body in the ditch. The suspect had not, however, confessed to murdering the boy.
The day after Mona Nelson's arrest a local television reporter interviewed her at the Harris County Jail. Nelson told the correspondent that one of Jonathan's family members on Christmas Eve had asked her to dump the contents of a garbage container. The unnamed relative paid her twenty dollars for the job. She had been drunk on vodka and had no idea what was in the plastic container. "I didn't know what was in it until they were showing me pictures in the interrogation room. I'm not a monster," she said, "I have five grandkids and I love kids."
Houston homicide detective Mike Miller, in response to Nelson's statements to the TV reporter, pointed out that Jonathan's body had not been found in a container. In describing the murder suspect Detective Miller said, "She is a cold soulless murderer who showed an absolute lack of remorse in taking the life of Jonathan Foster. There's only been one or two people I've ever talked to that had eyes like she did. It was really cold." Detective Miller said that all of the victim's family members, including his stepfather David Davis, had solid alibis. Mona Nelson had acted on her own, he said.
On Monday, January 3, 2011 Mona Nelson appeared before a judge who asked her if she understood her rights. She said that she did. The judge appointed Nelson an attorney, informed her of the charge and sent her back to jail. A month later Harris County prosecutor Connie Spence presented the case to a grand jury that returned a true bill of capital murder.
The Nelson murder trial got underway on Monday, August 12, 2013 before district judge Jeannine Barr. The defendant had waived her right to a jury trial, putting her fate entirely in the hands of this judge. Nelson's attorney, Alan Tanner, before the opening statements and presentation of witnesses, asked Judge Barr to quash five recorded statements his client had made to detectives over a stretch of seventeen hours at her home and at the police station. According to the defense attorney the interrogators continued to question Nelson after she complained a dozen times of being ill. The officers did not address Nelson's health complaints until after the interrogation. (Detectives took her to a nearby hospital where doctors found nothing wrong with her.)
On Tuesday, August 13, 2013 Mona Nelson, pursuant to the procedural law question regarding the admissibility of her police statements, testified that her interrogators had worn her down. Although she asked to consult with an attorney a dozen times the questioning continued. Attorney Tanner argued that the interrogating officers had violated his client's Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. He also asserted that her statements had not been given voluntarily and were therefore inadmissible in court.
Judge Barr, later that afternoon, made her evidentiary ruling. She excluded the statements Nelson made after she had requested to see a lawyer. Since these requests came late in the interrogation session most of her statements were admissible.
In her opening remarks before Judge Barr, prosecutor Spence admitted that the state would not be establishing a motive for Jonathan's murder. (While prosecutors prefer to have motive evidence it is not a legal requirement for a murder conviction. All the state has to prove is criminal intent. In substantive law, the why is not legally relevant.) The prosecutor promised the judge that she would prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Mona Nelson, sometime between 2:15 and 6:08 PM on December 24, 2010 tortured and killed the 11-year-old Foster boy with a blowtorch at her home, then dumped his charred remains in a ditch. Spence said that one of the key pieces of evidence she would introduce involved Jonathan's sweat shirt found in a trash can near the defendant's house.
Defense attorney Tanner reminded the judge that just because his client had dumped the boy's body in the ditch didn't necessary mean that she had killed him. In foreshadowing the thrust of his defense, Tanner cast suspicion on the victim's stepdad, David Davis. According to the defense attorney the boy had come between Davis and his estranged wife which may have been the motive behind the murder. All Mona Nelson did was dispose of the contents of a garbage can that had been given to her.
The victim's mother took the stand as the state's first witness. She was followed by several detectives who testified about the physical evidence they had recovered from Nelson's home and how it related to the evidence found near Jonathan Foster's charred corpse. David Davis, the stepfather, took the stand and admitted that he had hit the victim's mother. He said he had never harmed the boy. Through direct examination, prosecutor Spence established the witness' whereabouts at the time of the abduction and the murder.
Lois Sims, the supervisor at the meat market who took the phone call for Angela Davis on the afternoon of December 24, 2010, described the caller as an angry foul-mouthed woman. The caller wanted the telephone number of the woman leasing the apartment where Davis and her son were staying. "If you don't get her on the phone now something's going to happen. He [Jonathan] won't be here for long."
Defense attorney Tanner pointed out that the two meat market supervisors had described the caller as a white woman.
On August 19, 2013 two Houston Police Department K-9 officers testified that three cadaver dogs had reacted strongly to a box of burned carpeting at Nelson's house. One of the witnesses said, "There was a strong odor of human remains there. An arborist (tree expert) testified that leaves at the dump site had come from oak trees. There were no such trees where Jonathan's body had been recovered, but around Nelson's house there were seven trees of this kind.
The prosecutor played a videotaped statement from Nelson in which she admitted being at the place where Jonathan's body had been dumped. She said she had emptied a garbage container at the site. She said she didn't know the contents of the plastic container.
The following day a forensic scientist from the FBI Crime Laboratory testified that a Looney Tunes sweatshirt that belonged to Jonathan, recovered from the defendants trash can, contained Nelson's blood and DNA. Two other DNA experts agreed with this analysis. The presence of this trace evidence on the sweatshirt suggested that the victim had put up a fight.
On Friday morning, August 23, 2013, the prosecution rested its case. Allen Tanner launched his client's defense with the testimony of a woman who gave Mona Nelson an alibi. Following the testimony of two other witnesses the defense rested its case. Mona Nelson did not take the stand on her own behalf.
The next day defense attorney Allen Tanner delivered his closing argument to the judge. "Mona Nelson," he said, "had absolutely no motive to kill Jonathan Foster. They searched and searched for a motive and there's no reason why she would have killed that boy." In referring to David Davis, the estranged husband, Tanner said, "He wanted to get her back and he told people at work that Jonathan is the root of all his problems...The [prosecution's] case got weaker and weaker...There are more and more unanswered questions now than there were at the beginning. The evidence is clear there could be people who committed this crime and we have no idea at this time who they are."
When it came her turn to address the judge, prosecutor Spence said, "This defendant took Jonathan Foster back to her house and killed him. We'll never know how she killed him because she burned his body to the point where you can't tell."
On Monday morning, August 26, 2013, Judge Jeannine Barr found Mona Nelson guilty as charged. The judge imposed the automatic sentence of life without parole. After hearing the verdict Nelson said, "I'm innocent and I maintain my innocence. I wouldn't harm anybody."
Defense attorney Allen Tanner told reporters he would file an appeal on the grounds of insufficient evidence. "We believe someone else kidnapped this child and someone else killed this child."
On March 19, 2015, a three-judge panel on the Fourth District Texas Court of Appeals affirmed the Mona Nelson capital murder conviction.
When he was drunk, David Davis became violent. One of his assaults sent Angela to the hospital. On December 14, 2010, after Mr. Davis slapped his stepson in the face, Angela and Jonathan moved a hundred feet away into the apartment of a woman who had befriended her.
In the early afternoon of December 24, 2010, a woman who referred to herself as Jonathan's babysitter, spoke on the telephone to one of Angela's co-workers at a meat market where she was employed as a cashier. The caller who said she was Angela's babysitter wanted to speak to the mother. The meat market co-worker passed the message on to Angela who said she didn't have a babysitter. Angela called the number left by the woman and she answered the phone. Just before the line went dead Angela heard her son's voice. She rushed home to check on her son. The boy was not in the apartment. Fearing foul play Angela Davis called 911 and reported her son missing.
Detectives with the Houston Police Department, from the beginning, treated the case as a possible kidnapping. The police, suspecting Angela's estranged husband David, questioned him closely. David Davis said he had checked on Jonathan just 25 minutes before Angela came home and found him missing. At that time the boy was playing a video game. "There's no doubt in my mind that he's been snatched," the stepfather said. "I think a pedophile took him."
As investigators questioned other members of the missing boy's family, neighbors and volunteers handed out fliers. Angela went on television and said this to the abductor: "Don't hurt my baby." On the possibility that Jonathan had been kidnapped by a stranger, detectives questioned fifty registered sex offenders in the northwest Houston area.
On December 28, 2010, four days after Jonathan went missing, a Houston Police Department's K-9 unit recovery dog detected what turned out to be the boy's badly charred remains. (Jonathan Foster had to be identified by dental records.) The body, bound with twine, had been dumped into a ditch four miles from his residence. Near the corpse detectives found a welder's torch.
Surveillance camera footage from a building near Jonathan's body showed a silver Ford pickup truck pulling up to the site at six o'clock on Christmas eve. A black woman got out of the vehicle, reached into the bed of the truck, took out what appeared to be a body and placed it into the ditch.
Detectives quickly identified the woman in the truck as 44-year-old Mona Yvette Nelson, an acquaintance of the woman who had been sharing her apartment with Angela and Jonathan. Two weeks earlier, Mona, a maintenance worker at the apartment complex, had met the boy's stepfather. According to witnesses Mona Nelson had been seen recently in the vicinity of the murdered child's apartment.
As a maintenance employee, Mona Nelson had worked with acetylene torches and various types of welding equipment. A former boxer, she had been convicted in 1984 of aggravated robbery which brought a ten-year probated sentence. Nelson had since been arrested for various drug charges and for making terroristic threats against another woman. The suspect owned a truck that looked like the silver Ford driven by the woman seen on surveillance tapes dumping the body into the ditch.
On December 30, 2011 at a press conference, a spokesperson for the Houston Police Department announced that Mona Nelson, charged with capital murder, had been arrested for Jonathan Foster's death. Having been denied bond the suspect was incarcerated in the Harris County Jail. In a search of her northwest Houston residence detectives found twine similar to the cordage found on Jonathan's body. Officers also recovered an acetylene tank used in welding. Sections of Nelson's carpet had been recently burned.
According to the police spokesperson, Nelson under police questioning admitted dumping Jonathan's body in the ditch. The suspect had not, however, confessed to murdering the boy.
The day after Mona Nelson's arrest a local television reporter interviewed her at the Harris County Jail. Nelson told the correspondent that one of Jonathan's family members on Christmas Eve had asked her to dump the contents of a garbage container. The unnamed relative paid her twenty dollars for the job. She had been drunk on vodka and had no idea what was in the plastic container. "I didn't know what was in it until they were showing me pictures in the interrogation room. I'm not a monster," she said, "I have five grandkids and I love kids."
Houston homicide detective Mike Miller, in response to Nelson's statements to the TV reporter, pointed out that Jonathan's body had not been found in a container. In describing the murder suspect Detective Miller said, "She is a cold soulless murderer who showed an absolute lack of remorse in taking the life of Jonathan Foster. There's only been one or two people I've ever talked to that had eyes like she did. It was really cold." Detective Miller said that all of the victim's family members, including his stepfather David Davis, had solid alibis. Mona Nelson had acted on her own, he said.
On Monday, January 3, 2011 Mona Nelson appeared before a judge who asked her if she understood her rights. She said that she did. The judge appointed Nelson an attorney, informed her of the charge and sent her back to jail. A month later Harris County prosecutor Connie Spence presented the case to a grand jury that returned a true bill of capital murder.
The Nelson murder trial got underway on Monday, August 12, 2013 before district judge Jeannine Barr. The defendant had waived her right to a jury trial, putting her fate entirely in the hands of this judge. Nelson's attorney, Alan Tanner, before the opening statements and presentation of witnesses, asked Judge Barr to quash five recorded statements his client had made to detectives over a stretch of seventeen hours at her home and at the police station. According to the defense attorney the interrogators continued to question Nelson after she complained a dozen times of being ill. The officers did not address Nelson's health complaints until after the interrogation. (Detectives took her to a nearby hospital where doctors found nothing wrong with her.)
On Tuesday, August 13, 2013 Mona Nelson, pursuant to the procedural law question regarding the admissibility of her police statements, testified that her interrogators had worn her down. Although she asked to consult with an attorney a dozen times the questioning continued. Attorney Tanner argued that the interrogating officers had violated his client's Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. He also asserted that her statements had not been given voluntarily and were therefore inadmissible in court.
Judge Barr, later that afternoon, made her evidentiary ruling. She excluded the statements Nelson made after she had requested to see a lawyer. Since these requests came late in the interrogation session most of her statements were admissible.
In her opening remarks before Judge Barr, prosecutor Spence admitted that the state would not be establishing a motive for Jonathan's murder. (While prosecutors prefer to have motive evidence it is not a legal requirement for a murder conviction. All the state has to prove is criminal intent. In substantive law, the why is not legally relevant.) The prosecutor promised the judge that she would prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Mona Nelson, sometime between 2:15 and 6:08 PM on December 24, 2010 tortured and killed the 11-year-old Foster boy with a blowtorch at her home, then dumped his charred remains in a ditch. Spence said that one of the key pieces of evidence she would introduce involved Jonathan's sweat shirt found in a trash can near the defendant's house.
Defense attorney Tanner reminded the judge that just because his client had dumped the boy's body in the ditch didn't necessary mean that she had killed him. In foreshadowing the thrust of his defense, Tanner cast suspicion on the victim's stepdad, David Davis. According to the defense attorney the boy had come between Davis and his estranged wife which may have been the motive behind the murder. All Mona Nelson did was dispose of the contents of a garbage can that had been given to her.
The victim's mother took the stand as the state's first witness. She was followed by several detectives who testified about the physical evidence they had recovered from Nelson's home and how it related to the evidence found near Jonathan Foster's charred corpse. David Davis, the stepfather, took the stand and admitted that he had hit the victim's mother. He said he had never harmed the boy. Through direct examination, prosecutor Spence established the witness' whereabouts at the time of the abduction and the murder.
Lois Sims, the supervisor at the meat market who took the phone call for Angela Davis on the afternoon of December 24, 2010, described the caller as an angry foul-mouthed woman. The caller wanted the telephone number of the woman leasing the apartment where Davis and her son were staying. "If you don't get her on the phone now something's going to happen. He [Jonathan] won't be here for long."
Defense attorney Tanner pointed out that the two meat market supervisors had described the caller as a white woman.
On August 19, 2013 two Houston Police Department K-9 officers testified that three cadaver dogs had reacted strongly to a box of burned carpeting at Nelson's house. One of the witnesses said, "There was a strong odor of human remains there. An arborist (tree expert) testified that leaves at the dump site had come from oak trees. There were no such trees where Jonathan's body had been recovered, but around Nelson's house there were seven trees of this kind.
The prosecutor played a videotaped statement from Nelson in which she admitted being at the place where Jonathan's body had been dumped. She said she had emptied a garbage container at the site. She said she didn't know the contents of the plastic container.
The following day a forensic scientist from the FBI Crime Laboratory testified that a Looney Tunes sweatshirt that belonged to Jonathan, recovered from the defendants trash can, contained Nelson's blood and DNA. Two other DNA experts agreed with this analysis. The presence of this trace evidence on the sweatshirt suggested that the victim had put up a fight.
On Friday morning, August 23, 2013, the prosecution rested its case. Allen Tanner launched his client's defense with the testimony of a woman who gave Mona Nelson an alibi. Following the testimony of two other witnesses the defense rested its case. Mona Nelson did not take the stand on her own behalf.
The next day defense attorney Allen Tanner delivered his closing argument to the judge. "Mona Nelson," he said, "had absolutely no motive to kill Jonathan Foster. They searched and searched for a motive and there's no reason why she would have killed that boy." In referring to David Davis, the estranged husband, Tanner said, "He wanted to get her back and he told people at work that Jonathan is the root of all his problems...The [prosecution's] case got weaker and weaker...There are more and more unanswered questions now than there were at the beginning. The evidence is clear there could be people who committed this crime and we have no idea at this time who they are."
When it came her turn to address the judge, prosecutor Spence said, "This defendant took Jonathan Foster back to her house and killed him. We'll never know how she killed him because she burned his body to the point where you can't tell."
On Monday morning, August 26, 2013, Judge Jeannine Barr found Mona Nelson guilty as charged. The judge imposed the automatic sentence of life without parole. After hearing the verdict Nelson said, "I'm innocent and I maintain my innocence. I wouldn't harm anybody."
Defense attorney Allen Tanner told reporters he would file an appeal on the grounds of insufficient evidence. "We believe someone else kidnapped this child and someone else killed this child."
On March 19, 2015, a three-judge panel on the Fourth District Texas Court of Appeals affirmed the Mona Nelson capital murder conviction.
"Just like us" indeed.
ReplyDeleteI also believe that Mona Nelson is innocent. What is the motive ? Who paid her $20 to empty the trash ? Why isn't that part of the court room hearings. I think the step father did it...or something more sinister happened.
ReplyDeleteGood!! Let her sit behind bars! This makes me sick! Poor little boy. And on Christmas eve! People are heartless.
DeleteAmazing how whenever a woman is on trial, if they can divert blame on a man they will. And Maags comment proves people will buy it.
DeleteIt said their was no trash can on the tape.
DeleteI don't think she was trying to get ransom money, the mother worked at a meat market. However add ess probably on some type of drugs and lost her mind. However if she didn't do this she clearly participated.
DeleteI can hardly stand to think of what this boy may have gone though before he died. It's unimaginable. How can any human being be so cruel?
DeleteYes, it haunts me to this day to think about it. He was, by all description, a kind and sweet soul who only wanted to be with his mother after all these years. He sat in the living room on Christmas eve with all his presents under the tree so excited for his mom to come home from work and to have his first Christmas with her....it was to be a dream come true. I question God here. This is a cruelty and a tragedy of unspeakable proportion against the most innocent of victims. Perhaps he was your lamb?
DeleteMona guilty. It was do much evidence found in her home. The torch she used the twine was all found in her home. The burn marks etc. I lived in Houston when all this happen I was in jail with Mona. Mona guilty as charged n deserved the death peantly
DeleteMona guilty. It was do much evidence found in her home. The torch she used the twine was all found in her home. The burn marks etc. I lived in Houston when all this happen I was in jail with Mona. Mona guilty as charged n deserved the death peantly
DeleteI agree with Maags. Who gave Mona the $20? There is a vicious killer on the loose right now.
DeleteOak leaves? Seriously? There are iak trees everywhere.
DeleteThe motive was Jealousy... Mona Nelson had her sights on the woman that Angela and Jonathan had just moved in with. Mona had some plans of her own to move in with that woman. When she found out Angela was living there with Jonathan, that ruined her plans. She was trying to hurt Angela, by killing Jonathan, because she felt Angela was moving in on her territory.....
DeleteHere's what's REALLY funny. I lost my virginity to Mona. Her name was Preston when we were growing up. I have always thought she was angry because she didn't really fit in and especially angry with men & even though she was older than me I continue to feel that I contributed to her anger & even later what she did to that boy.
DeleteAnd that is FUNNY, WHY EXACTLY??
DeleteThe death sentence should have been invoked on this case .
ReplyDeleteWe the people should not have to pay for trash like this to live in jail for the rest of her life .
Actually, it will cost less to incarcerate this criminal for the rest of her life than to go through the numerous appeals on the way to the death chamber. This is saving you money.
DeleteNot even a little true. The appeals will all still be put through, and since she's using a state appointed attorney, they will take just as long and cost the taxpayers just as much as if she had been sentenced to death. It costs tens of thousands of dollars per year to house an inmate. It costs about $84 for the drugs to kill them.
DeleteFewer appeals are required by law for prisoners who are incarcerated for life because so long as they live a mistake might eventually be corrected. Death row inmates get many more because a mistake might be corrected too late (something you'd probably be appreciative of if you were ever falsely convicted and it does happen).
DeleteThe studies have been done, and it's pretty clear that life incarceration is way more cost effective in the long run. Also, if your goal is retributory (which is a terrible thing if you actually want justice served, btw) then it's far more punishing to have someone live the rest of their life knowing that they're trapped in a box than to just kill them. That actually seems like an easy way out.
More nonsense.
DeleteWhat's most cost effective is for Nelson to get stabbed by some other prisoner who resembles a human being enough to be offended by her actions.
The only alternative to a good healthy shanking, is serious prison reform so that subhumans like her who should ride the lightning, ride the lightning as soon as possible, without any bullshit appeals.
Lol people have tried to fight her but none in her wing stupid enough to try. Idk as ive seen her in prison i dont see how she could even do this. I was an officer in there and almost passed out from dehydration and she broke her cell door just to get me a bottle of water. I wish they could do a retrial and do it again to make sure nothing was missed.
DeleteAnnon what you said is basically the Mona that I know. I have been in there with her and she is not one that would take life. She is a very good hearted person and when we talked about ber case she told me everything and never left out anything. I think that somewhere in there some evidence is missing. She even told me about the shirt they are saying had her blood on it, but the only thing wrong with the shirt was that it was too small to fit the child in question.
DeleteI would love for someone to burn her with a blow torch, its so sad how sick people are. That poor chil probably suffered so bad, I just hope he wasn't alive while she was burning him!1
ReplyDeleteThere is a sad sickness to your comment that you would wish the same ill on this criminal. The higher road would be to wish remorse and even redemption, as I pray for both of you.
DeleteThe fact that you exist is a symbol that this society is sick.
DeleteYou shouldn't be allowed to vote, and if you continue to do so and in doing so enable predators like Nelson, you should be burnt with a blow torch for enabling them.
According to forensic reports, there was no soot in his lungs which means he was likely already dead when she used the blow torch. She also stunned him with a stun gun. He must have wondered where God was.
DeleteYou know if people claim to be so innocent why don't they just take a lie detector test and prove it.
ReplyDeleteB/c lie detector tests are inadmissible in most courtrooms. Der.
DeleteLie detector tests don't necessarily prove anything, seeing as how they monitor your hearts reactions. .. If you're just nervous or unnervingly calm, it can be tricked.
ReplyDeleteRogie that.
DeleteEspecially in the case of sociopaths like Nelson, and her enablers.
If this were my child I would want the same done to this useless waste of flesh and oxygen. I would want her burned and kept alive to live incarcerated in as much misery as humanly possible... With the knowledge that she would eventually burn in hell as well... I don't care what any of you jackasses say. Put in that position you would want retribution as well...
ReplyDeleteHow can you write such a detailed article and never mention that the little boy was white and the killer white? How can you never mention that the little boy was tortured by being slowly burned to death with a welders blowtorch? If the races were reversed this would hav been and still be headline news.
ReplyDeleteUmm I don't know if you're color blind but Nelson is NOT white. It clearly states she's black. "A black woman got out of the vehicle, reached into the bed, took out what appeared to be a body, and placed it into the ditch." So I really don't get where you're getting that she's white from that clear statement.
DeleteJeez, it's pretty obvious saying she was white was a mistake on their part if you bothered to think.
DeleteWhere did you get the information that he was slowly tortured to death with a blow torch?
DeleteAt age 44 the convicted murderess who is likely a bona fide psychopath [someone genetically lacking emotional capacity other than fits of anger/rage when frustrated, a condition that entails a predatory, intra-special predator, mendacious and highly manipulative personality] must have left a history with a trail of her victims of abuse of some kind in her past that would be greater than any criminal record there may be. I have seen nothing about her past; of her family, her parents and siblings,her marriages & children; her education & employment history. Psychopaths can readily pass lie-detector questioning as lie-detectors rely on emotional reactions from the subjects, albeit imperceptible to viewers but with a physiological internal dynamic that the lie-detector picks up as electrical activity variations. Clearly, Mona Nelson, if that is her real name, is a low-hanging fruit even now for some ambitious investigative journalist or other researcher as there is likely an untold tale waiting to be discovered about the life of the woman called "Mona Nelson".
ReplyDeleteI knew mona. Yes she has in the past been aggressive, abusive, struggled with drugs, and been mentally instable. I would honestly not be surprised if she is guilty. However, Im not sold on her guilt in this case simply because when this story broke i found a picture on the internet of her walking along side i believe it was the mayor of houston. Its possible she did some dirty work for someone and then was framed...but all that aside, this is one sad tragedy.
DeleteThis was a terrible case... I just turned 20yo and I followed this case when it was shown on Casey B Anthony show.... I cried my freaking eyes out
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure where you got some of your information on this story but being I am his aunt that raised him for 4 years of his life and had to live this nightmare let me clear a few things up for you. First off his mother Angela is not 44, she is not even 40 yet. David Davis was never his step father, Jonathan lived in his house for 3 weeks before he hit him. He was a man his mother just so happened to marry, one of the lets see like 7 men she has married. A k-9 is not who found Jonathan, a passerby was the one who spotted something suspicious in the culvert. Also Jonathan was 12 when he was murdered, he would now be 18 as of 2 days ago.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing this information. I couldn't breathe when I heard about his murder. It upset me so. I thought I read that there was little to no soot in his lungs and therefore he was likely dead before she burned him. Do you know if that's true? I am praying he didn't suffer that final torture.
DeleteBlack Lives Matter will really be up in arms about this one. Or maybe not. All Lives Matter!
ReplyDeleteWhat does this tragic murder have to do with the Black Lives Matter movement? Or the ALS ice bucket challenge? Or any other movement?
DeleteI want to just say to the family of Jonathan I am deeply sorry for your loss and I know that it has had to be the hardest thing to deal with. Secondly, I know that with all the media that was surrounding this case things may have been construed and out of place blowing certain things out of proportion as well as changing some things that might have happened on the way to this tragic incident. I would like to say that I have been in prison with Mona for the last 2 1/2 years. And yes, she does have some anger issues I will admit to that, and I will say that she has gone as far as to lash out on people for hurting someone that she is close too. I have seen many sides of her and I know that a 12-year old could not have done something that drastic to her for her to kill him. I read everyone's comments and I understand both sides of what all are saying. I can say she always made sure that I was ok and she watched over me the entire time I was in prison. I was jumped on (playing) and she came and pulled them off of me. THAT is how I know that she will fight behind someone she cares about. And the fact that the torch was just LEFT by the body.... NOBODY thinks that's weird at all?? I mean if she killed and burned him at the house why would the torch be out there by the body?? To me that sounds like a total setup but that's just me. And the process of burning a body with a welding torch.... Lets really think about that. What was the accelerant? And did any of her neighbors smell burning flesh? Did the police smell it when searching her house? Because that is not a smell to easily get rid of. I am just asking the questions that are evidently not asked. Again it is a tragedy because I myself have four kids, but if a person is innocent I don't want the wrong person sitting while another is on the loose with the mindset to do this again.
ReplyDeleteYes, the smell of burnt flesh was detected at her home by canines. Also there were burns on her carpet where the scent was detected along with twine that had bound his hands. What do you have to say now Unknown?
DeleteI want to just say to the family of Jonathan I am deeply sorry for your loss and I know that it has had to be the hardest thing to deal with. Secondly, I know that with all the media that was surrounding this case things may have been construed and out of place blowing certain things out of proportion as well as changing some things that might have happened on the way to this tragic incident. I would like to say that I have been in prison with Mona for the last 2 1/2 years. And yes, she does have some anger issues I will admit to that, and I will say that she has gone as far as to lash out on people for hurting someone that she is close too. I have seen many sides of her and I know that a 12-year old could not have done something that drastic to her for her to kill him. I read everyone's comments and I understand both sides of what all are saying. I can say she always made sure that I was ok and she watched over me the entire time I was in prison. I was jumped on (playing) and she came and pulled them off of me. THAT is how I know that she will fight behind someone she cares about. And the fact that the torch was just LEFT by the body.... NOBODY thinks that's weird at all?? I mean if she killed and burned him at the house why would the torch be out there by the body?? To me that sounds like a total setup but that's just me. And the process of burning a body with a welding torch.... Lets really think about that. What was the accelerant? And did any of her neighbors smell burning flesh? Did the police smell it when searching her house? Because that is not a smell to easily get rid of. I am just asking the questions that are evidently not asked. Again it is a tragedy because I myself have four kids, but if a person is innocent I don't want the wrong person sitting while another is on the loose with the mindset to do this again.
DeleteThe torch was not left by the body. It was found in Mona's house.
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