A probable cause hearing was held this morning for the woman charged with capital murder in the death of 12-year-old Jonathan Foster.
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The hearing revealed new details about the boy’s death, but also raised questions that someone else may be involved and failed to provide a motive in the killing.
Mona Yvette Nelson, 44, was arrested yesterday in the disappearance and death of the Durham Elementary fifth-grader on Christmas Eve.
Nelson was not present for this morning’s court hearing because of an undisclosed medical condition.
Court documents filed in the probable cause hearing revealed Nelson admitted to driving the gray-colored pickup truck caught on surveillance video dumping Nelson’s burned body in a ditch near the Hardy Toll Road. Additionally, burned pieces of carpet were among the pieces of evidence police seized from Nelson’s north Houston apartment.
Evidence presented to the court also confirmed the fact that medical examiners had positively identified the body as that of Foster.
It was also disclosed that police had located witnesses who placed both Nelson and her truck near the apartment from which Foster disappeared last Friday afternoon. Nelson was reportedly seen near the apartment about the time Foster’s mother received a mysterious telephone call from a “raspy voiced woman.”
What the court documents did not divulge was a possible motive in the killing.
Additionally, the wording of court filing spurred speculation others may be involved in Foster’s murder.
Nelson has been described as a “family acquaintance” of Foster’s mother, Angela Davis, and stepfather David Davis.
Angela Davis said he had met the woman “only once.”
