Florida mom blamed baby's death on co-sleeping — then detectives noticed her jewelry



A Florida woman allegedly said her baby died when she fell asleep next to her son. However, police said the infant's autopsy — along with a piece of the mother's jewelry — tipped them off to something far more sinister.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said in a statement that deputies responded to a residence in Lakeland after receiving a report that a baby boy was unresponsive around 11:58 p.m. Sept. 6.

'I think I killed our son.'

Police said the 3-month-old was rushed to Orlando Health Medical where he was pronounced deceased shortly after.

According to the affidavit, the infant had an abrasion and bruising on his head.

The sheriff's office said:

An autopsy revealed that the baby had subdural hemorrhaging around the skull. Medical Examiner Dr. Stephen Nelson identified three separate impact injuries to the baby’s head. The impact injuries were located on the top of the forehead. Dr. Nelson also identified a 1.7 cm by 1 cm L-shaped injury to the baby’s forehead, which he stated appeared to be consistent with being caused by a square-like object.

Detectives interviewed the infant's mother, 42-year-old Jessica Vlasac.

"Vlasac told deputies that she had accidentally fallen asleep with the baby in the bed and that she did not remember anything else, and that when she woke up, she found the baby lying face down on the bed, not moving and cold to the touch," the police statement read.

According to the statement, "After the autopsy, detectives interviewed Vlasac again and observed her wearing a large, diamond-like stone ring on her ring finger that was consistent with the large, square-like shape mentioned in the autopsy."

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Detectives executed a search warrant and obtained Vlasac's devices and her ring.

Police said, "During the search, Vlasac spontaneously asked if the ring was what killed the victim."

The statement read, "In a follow-up examination, Dr. Nelson examined the ring that had been confiscated from Vlasac and advised that the victim’s injuries were consistent with being struck by the ring, as a part of the impact injuries."

The sheriff's office stated that "there was no evidence of co-sleeping causing the death."

The PCSO added that text messages retrieved from the night of the incident showed Vlasac bought alcoholic shots earlier that day, sent messages stating she killed the infant, and later asked the child's father to delete the text history, WTVT-TV reported.

According to detectives, the baby's father told them that Vlasac is someone who becomes "violent" when she consumes alcohol.

Police said the father told detectives that Vlasac sent him multiple messages saying that she had killed the infant, including one that read: "I think I killed our son."

The statement said, "The father stated that Vlasac called him a few days later and seemed unusually normal when discussing the death."

Police arrested Vlasac on Sept. 10 and booked her into the Polk County Jail, according to records from the Polk County Sheriff's Office.

Vlasac, of Lakeland, was charged with aggravated child abuse resulting in the death.

The first-degree felony charge carries a maximum prison sentence of 30 years if convicted, according to WTSP-TV.

Police said the investigation is ongoing.

Vlasac remains at the Polk County Jail without bond.

Law&Crime reported that Vlasac has a pretrial detention hearing Thursday and an arraignment hearing Oct. 13.

Records from the Polk County Sheriff's Office show Vlasac also was arrested on Aug. 2 in a separate incident. She was charged with battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting an officer with violence, and resisting an officer without violence.

Jail records show Vlasac was released Aug. 19 in connection with that arrest.

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Lindsay Clancy Juror: Most Of Us Were Able To ‘Get Over’ The Dead Children

The people defending Lindsay Clancy raise serious doubts among the public about whether women can discern right from wrong.

A growing number of women are siding with admitted killers — and the reason is darker than you realize



As thousands of women continue their support of Lindsay Clancy, and after Luigi Mangione’s guilty plea failed to stop female supporters from romanticizing him as a hero, Conservateur editor Bethany Miller has one question: “What is the state of American women today?”

This was the central question that underpinned her recent article “Lindsay Clancy, Luigi Mangione, and the State of American Women.”

On a recent episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” Miller joined the Blaze Media co-founder to unpack her theory about what’s causing a growing number of women to support confessed killers.

Miller explains that women’s disturbing advocacy surrounding people who have admitted to killing innocents is multifaceted and long-simmering.

“From the Millennial movement of the #MeToo and the therapeutic culture and ‘my truth is the only truth’ — this has been brewing for some time,” she tells Glenn.

These movements, Miller says, are the result of the divinely fashioned female psyche — with its bend toward empathy and relationality — being “weaponized” by “secular politics.”

“The left is capitalizing on [female instincts], manipulating women's lenses of empathy and of relation and using that to get them to respond empathetically in a weaponized empathy to what's happening with Lindsay Clancy,” she says.

“So instead of going, ‘Hey, what's black and white here? This woman killed her children, therefore justice must be served,’ they're saying, ‘Hey, actually, she struggled with postpartum depression, and she was anxious, and so let's blame the man,’ or, ‘I can see myself in her; therefore me condemning her is condemning myself.”’

Glenn was particularly struck by Miller’s argument in her article that women have been conditioned to allow their instinctual empathy to lead them to dark outcomes. In the piece, she wrote, “I see her becomes I understand her. I understand her becomes I cannot judge her.”

“The blurring of that line, I mean, that's what has ... women holding newborns and posting “Same, Lindsay” or pushing a stroller outside of her trial, chanting that she's innocent,” he sighs.

People must be able to tell the difference between understanding someone’s pain and agreeing with how they handle it, Glenn urges.

“Mental illness is real, and I can understand [Clancy] because my mother went through really bad mental illness ... but that doesn't mean I agree with her,” he says.

“Luigi Mangione — that is terrifying to me that they're practically throwing themselves at this [alleged] murderer because they're like, ‘Yeah, well, he's been abused by the system, and I've been abused by the system.’”

Another factor playing into this issue, says Miller, is women’s obsession with true crime and fantasy.

“This is the type of entertainment and narratives that they inherit and consume on a daily basis and that we've seen ... weaponize the way that they're thinking about these things,” she says.

Add to that social media and the dawning of the AI age, where what’s real is quickly becoming impossible to know, and it’s no wonder, says Miller, so many young people especially are struggling to differentiate between genuine reality and “digital reality.”

“Beyond just the gender wars, discernment is something we're losing as the American public,” she warns.

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Women Defending Lindsay Clancy Admit They’re Dangerous And Unaccountable

Now that the Lindsay Clancy case just ended in a mistrial and justice is, for the moment, suspended, it’s time to pay special attention to a certain kind of woman, a perfect example of which showed herself while Plymouth County, Massachusetts, District Attorney Timothy Cruz was talking to news media immediately after the trial judge […]

If You Have Mixed Feelings About Lindsay Clancy’s Guilt, You’re Too Stupid And Broken To Be On TikTok

If TikTok is what's causing people to end up not just wrong about real crimes taking place, but to flat-out side with killers, those people cannot be trusted to look at TikTok.

Why TikTok's astrology defense for Lindsay Clancy is against God's design



The Lindsay Clancy case has generated no shortage of online speculation, but a new theory gaining traction on TikTok may be among the strangest yet.

Rather than examining evidence presented in court, some social media users are using astrology and birth-chart readings to argue that Clancy's husband, Patrick, was actually responsible for the deaths of the couple's children.

“Women on TikTok are using astrology to argue that Patrick actually committed the killings. And they’re using divination. They’re using what they claim to be some connection with the divine and with the universe to try to prove their case,” BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey explains.

“So they’re using Lindsay and Patrick’s birth dates to create birth charts,” she says, noting that these women have “too much time.”


“An idle mind is the devil’s workshop. That’s what’s going on here,” she adds, before playing clips of women arguing their case on TikTok.

“Patrick Clancy did it, and you will never convince me otherwise. His sun sign is at 24 degrees of Gemini. That is a violence degree. That’s a malevolence degree and a danger of accidents degree,” one TikTok user said.

“So to all the Patrick Clancy haters, I can validate for you that he was a jackass because he was cheating on Lindsay, and I confirmed it. This is his chart,” another one said.

One TikTok user even used Lindsay’s birth chart to claim that she “likely had a very deep need to protect, nurture, and provide safety to children, her own children, and vulnerable populations.”

“Astrology is not a scientific method. It’s not thoughtful. It has its roots in ancient pagan traditions. It’s a religious belief system that Christians should have absolutely no part in whatsoever,” Stuckey says.

“But this just goes to show social media, astrology, the New Age, conspiracy, true crime, toxic empathy, all of these things are coming together in this very, what I think is dangerous and disturbing combination of the American female psyche,” she continues.

Stuckey also notes that God warns against use of divination, necromancy, mediums, magic, fortune, fortune tellers, and tarot cards.

“That’s not where we’re supposed to be seeking wisdom,” she says, “because all of that makes us vulnerable, I think, to demonic influence."

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Mom accused of helping teen son ditch his girlfriend's body after fatal stabbing — then mom makes shocking admission



A Pennsylvania mother is accused of helping her teenage son dispose of his girlfriend's body after he allegedly stabbed her to death, according to authorities.

Pennsylvania State Police said officers last week were alerted that 18-year-old Karoline Heintz could be missing.

'This is a parent’s worst nightmare.'

KDKA-TV reported that Heintz's family contacted law enforcement after Karoline failed to check in with family members when driving back to her campus housing at PennWest University in California, Pennsylvania.

Citing the criminal complaint, KDKA reported that Heintz's family utilized an Apple AirTag to track her vehicle to just outside the California Borough Library.

Shortly after midnight Thursday, local police discovered Heintz's Jeep Cherokee outside the library with "noticeable blood spatter inside and outside the vehicle," according to a Pennsylvania State Police statement.

Police said they found Heintz's body in the "rear hatch area" of the vehicle.

Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Rocco Gagliardi said the incident unfolded when Heintz met her boyfriend, 18-year-old Royce Mosher, on Wednesday to discuss the future of their relationship, according to another report by KDKA-TV.

"The investigation revealed that Karoline Heintz met with her boyfriend, Royce Mosher, outside his father's residence in North Strabane to talk," state police said.

"During the conversation, he got angry by something she said to him, but he could not remember what. He then had a 'demon take over' him and tell him to stab Karoline," Fox News reported, citing court documents.

According to the affidavit NBC News obtained, "He told her, 'Wait, I have something for you,' and went inside the residence to get a knife. He then came back outside and stabbed her in the chest."

Police said Mosher placed Heintz in the rear hatch area of the Jeep and "drove to the residence of his mother, Rachel Mosher, in Beallsville."

State police said the mother "assisted by attempting to clean the Jeep Cherokee with cleaning sprays" and gave her son latex gloves.

Investigators said the 56-year-old mother "instructed" her son to drive the Jeep and follow her car and ditch the Jeep near the library "with Karoline Heintz still inside."

Police stated that the mom used her car to drive the son back to her home, where "he cleaned his clothes and showered."

Washington County District Attorney Jason Walsh confirmed Royce was in a relationship with Heintz and said her death was "the result of a domestic situation," KDKA reported.

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Royce and Rachel were arrested last Thursday.

While police led her away in handcuffs, Rachel Mosher said, "I'm sorry," as she covered her face with her hands, WTAE-TV reported.

When a reporter asked why she was sorry, the mother replied, "That my son took a life."

Pennsylvania State Police said Royce Mosher has been charged with homicide, tampering with evidence, abuse of a corpse, conspiracy to commit tampering with evidence, conspiracy to commit abuse of a corpse, and obstruction of justice.

Rachel Mosher has been charged with hindering apprehension of a fugitive, tampering with evidence, abuse of a corpse, conspiracy to commit tampering with evidence, conspiracy to commit abuse of a corpse, and obstruction of justice.

The mother and son are being held in Washington County Prison without bail as they await preliminary hearings Monday, according to court records.

Heintz’s mother and father said, "This is a parent’s worst nightmare."

According to TribLIVE, Heintz’s parents on Friday told reporters, "It has been devastating for family, friends, and the whole community. Karoline was loved by all. She was a kind, smart, beautiful girl. We want justice for our 'sweet' Karoline."

Gagliardi noted that the knife allegedly used in the crime has been recovered, according to the Pittsburgh Patch.

Gagliardi said, "We're talking about an 18-year-old girl that was ready to start life, and now she no longer gets to pursue her dreams, which is really unfortunate."

The college in a statement said, "PennWest University and the California athletic department are deeply saddened by the passing of Karoline Heintz, a first-year student and member of the California women's soccer team."

PennWest University added, "With the support of PennWest California and Karoline's family, the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference will observe a moment of silence at all conference athletic events held from Thursday, August 27, through Thursday, September 3."

PennWest University Athletic Director Karen Hjerpe stated:

California Athletics is devastated by the tragic loss of our student-athlete Karoline Heintz. Karoline was a bright and kind young woman with so much ahead of her. She will always remain in our hearts. Our deepest condolences are with her family, friends, teammates, coaches, and all who knew and loved her.

A spokesperson for PennWest University said university police are "cooperating with the investigation."

Pennsylvania State Police are conducting the investigation in conjunction with the Washington County District Attorney's Office.

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Why are so many women supporting Lindsay Clancy? John Doyle blames America’s true crime obsession



The chatter surrounding the Lindsay Clancy murder trial continues to grow more convoluted and contentious by the day.

Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse from Duxbury, Massachusetts, strangled her three children — ages 5, 3, and 8 months — with exercise bands in January 2023 before attempting suicide by jumping from a second-story window, leaving her paralyzed. She has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, claiming postpartum psychosis.

Hundreds of women recently gathered in pink outside her ongoing murder trial courthouse (and online via the “Same, Lindsay” trend) to defend her, arguing the medical system failed her and that many mothers share similar postpartum mental-health struggles. Another viral theory perpetuated largely by female Clancy supporters speculates that it was actually her now ex-husband, Patrick, who killed their children and framed her for the murders.

BlazeTV host John Doyle sees beyond the disturbing Clancy support to what he believes is fueling the apologetics surrounding her: the true crime obsession that has gripped so many American women.

True crime, Doyle explains, has become so popular that it’s the subject of many podcasts, television series, and books. There’s even entire true crime conventions that attract thousands of fans.

But it’s predominately women who make up the true crime audience.

Doyle believes there’s a connection between this data and Clancy’s significant base of female supporters. He argues that many of the women who get sucked into the twisted tales of serial killers will find ways to reject the “settled science” when it’s a woman who’s the perpetrator.

To illustrate this point, he reads a tweet from friend of the show Sean Fitzgerald who attended CrimeCon:

This tendency of these true crime fans to support female defendants regardless of the evidence brought against them is what’s fueling the support for Clancy, Doyle argues.

Women, he says, have been conditioned by modern culture to be “extremely paranoid of men” — even in situations when it’s a woman who’s facing conviction.

“The true crime thing, part of what they like about it is the mystery. ... It's like who did what to whom? What's going on? Oh my gosh, what if this person was framed and it was actually the man?” says Doyle.

What these “junior psychologists” fail to realize, however, is that “most everybody who is actually at the point of going to criminal trial is guilty,” he adds. “They're in that room for a reason.”

But in addition to their general distrust of men, Doyle continues, there’s the “drama” that pulls them in. A woman being framed by a man is a far more interesting scenario than a cut-and-dry case.

“These people are only interested in drama, in entertainment, in narrative. There's no part of them that considers the merits of individual claims. This is not about truth for them,” he says.

“If you put something in front of them that contradicts what they are telling you, they will reflexively deny it basically on credit. They'll say, ‘No, this isn't true. I just have to go find why,’ and then they go digging to find some piece of information to rationalize their having reflexively denied it,” he continues.

But if pushback continues, the doubling down only intensifies.

“They will even ... amplify the drama to themselves by asserting without any evidence at all that you, by not feeding into their fantasy, are actually a part of it — but on the side that's trying to hide the truth,” says Doyle. “Ultimately though, they're going to get mad at you for basically pouring water on their fantasy.”

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‘Postpartum Depression’ Or Not, Lindsay Clancy Should Be Executed For Murder

If you can't understand that it's evil to kill children, you are a mortal danger to the innocent and therefore not fit to live in a just society.

Woman missing for over a year found buried beneath garage after chilling tip from suspected killer's friend: DA



The body of a Massachusetts woman who was missing for more than a year was discovered by police buried under a garage after a tipster revealed to authorities a chilling confession his friend allegedly made, the district attorney said.

Jill Kloppenburg, 47, was reported missing on Feb. 26, 2025.

'At some point, he made a jerking motion, which caused him to pull the trigger, discharging a firearm and shooting Jill in the chest.'

According to the FBI, Kloppenburg was last seen leaving her residence in Lowell on Jan. 2, 2025. The FBI said Kloppenburg was living in temporary housing with roommates.

While there had not been any promising leads regarding the location or status of the missing woman, authorities received a tip last week that broke the case wide open.

On March 10, 2026, a tipster reported a possible homicide to the Nashua Police Department in New Hampshire, according to a press release by the Middlesex County District Attorney's Office.

The Middlesex County District Attorney's Office revealed:

The reporting party told police that his friend, a man named Shawn Sullivan, had allegedly told him that he had killed a woman named “Jill” at this home in or around January 2025, and that he had allegedly shot her and buried her under the floor in the garage of the Audrey Avenue home in Tyngsborough where he was living.

On March 15, officers from the Tyngsborough Police Department, Tewksbury Police Department, and Massachusetts State Police executed a search warrant at the home.

Officers saw what appeared to be a "large, patched area in the garage," the district attorney's office said in a statement.

Investigators utilized ground-penetrating radar technology to scan the entire garage floor and confirmed an "area that appeared to be cut and patched."

WCVB-TV reported that the patched area in the garage measured approximately five feet long and three feet wide.

Police discovered human remains in a bag buried under the garage floor of the home. The DA said the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has identified the remains as Jill Kloppenburg.

The preliminary findings by the medical examiner also indicate that Kloppenburg sustained a gunshot wound.

Officers with the Tyngsborough Police Department arrested 40-year-old Shawn Sullivan on March 15.

On Tuesday, Sullivan was arraigned in Lowell District Court on charges of murder, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing serious bodily injury, and improper disposal of human remains in connection with the shooting of Kloppenburg.

Sullivan was ordered held without bail.

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Prosecutors claimed Sullivan said he shot the woman while showing her a gun in his bedroom, WCVB reported.

"The defendant said he was with Jill and holding a firearm while falling asleep. At some point, he made a jerking motion, which caused him to pull the trigger, discharging a firearm and shooting Jill in the chest," prosecutor Ceara Mahoney said.

Mahoney added, "He stated that Jill soon died, and if there was a chance for her survival, he would have called for help. Instead, the defendant kept Jill’s body in his room for a couple of days."

"He then brought Jill’s body to the garage, where he dug a hole in the concrete, placed her body in the hole, and then filled the hole," Mahoney stated.

The Boston Globe reported that Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan said in a press conference on Monday, "Police were able to learn that the last record of any communication from Ms. Kloppenburg’s cell phone was on Jan. 14, 2025.

Ryan added, "Police were able to learn that Ms. Kloppenburg was someone known to Mr. Sullivan, that she had been in his home, and that he had allegedly been with her around the time of her disappearance."

Sullivan's attorney, Ryan Sullivan, described his client's actions as "inexcusable," but said they still warranted a charge of involuntary manslaughter rather than murder.

"He's been emotional in speaking to the police and speaking with me," the attorney said. "This has been something that’s been greatly weighing on him. His decisions in the aftermath, although regretful, don’t equate to him having malice of committing any sort of act designed to do this. It’s a tragic, tragic accident."

Teresa Brink, a friend of Kloppenburg, told reporters outside the courthouse, "She didn’t deserve that, no. Absolutely not. She didn’t deserve that. Nobody does. Nobody. She's a human. She's a mother, a friend, a sister, a daughter."

Sullivan is scheduled to appear in court on April 17.

The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with any information about the case is urged to contact the Massachusetts State Police at 781-897-8300.

The Massachusetts State Police did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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