Uh, but you've had a system of abuse. You lock two little kids into a tiny closet where they don't even have room to fully lay down. And you've locked them in the closet all night while you sleep in the bed with your girlfriend. >> She's the one who suggested it. She suggested all THIS [ __ ] MAN. SHE >> listen to [ __ ] >> An 8-year-old boy was found dead in his own attic wrapped in a sleeping bag while a 100 officers searched everywhere except that door. Hello. Yes, sir. Have you seen him at all recently? >> No, sir. >> No. Thank you. >> Seen him recently? >> No. All right. Missing >> a kid. >> Yeah. Missing a kid. You seen him recently? >> Oh, he scared me. Is that the only picture? >> Yeah, that's the recent one. Have you seen him recently? Show him. >> So, we're over here looking Hamilton and 18. Any other info? >> And I was in L and I GOT THAT MOMENT AND THOUGHT HE WAS IN THERE like didn't even know his face. I TOLD HIM TO STOP. I told my son to stop hitting him. He was still hit him. I'm telling you. And I got up already deceased. And I I I didn't want my son in trouble. I try to cover it up. I put him in the bag. >> At approximately 12:00 p.m. on June 28th, 2024, Columbus police received a 911 call reporting about an 8-year-old Martonio Wilder who had gone missing. >> 911. What was the address of your emergency? >> I'm at 1044 Avenue. Please hear my 8-year-old son ran away last night. >> Okay. [clears throat] You said 10:44. >> Yes. Yes. You said he ran away last night. >> Yes, I got up. We just got up. We just got about like five minutes ago. We came looking for it. Hey, he's not in my house. He's not in my house. He Antonio look like he white. What he wear? >> He's black. He's black. I don't know what he wear. I think I think his red and black Nikes are missing. I don't know what he had on. Nobody said leave. My back door was wide open. Oh man. Oh man. >> What is your name, man? >> Land A D A Wilder. Oh my god. Where's my >> Okay. [laughter] You said he's done this before. >> Yeah. But we found him though. We found him at the park. Then we found him. He had jumped on my window before I finally went inside of my house. He just he trying to run away. I don't know why. He said he hate me. He said he hate everything he said. He don't care about being here. He keeps doing this. [clears throat] Oh my god. >> We're going to get someone out to you as soon as we can. Okay. >> Yes. >> His mother, 32-year-old Lashondaanda Wilder, claims she woke up to find him gone. Besides, she's been living with her two other sons, 9-year-old McKielle and three-year-old King. She says Martonio had run away three times before, but always returned. When officers arrive at the Mstead Avenue home, they find Lashonda waiting outside, visibly devastated. But soon, detectives will realize that this is far more than a missing child case. So, what's going on? Okay. Okay. Has he run away before? Okay. How how do you check the residence thoroughly? >> Okay. Do we have any clue where he have any friends around here? >> When was the last time you seen him? >> What time was that? >> So he went to bed. Okay. So you guys all went to bed at 9:30. >> Okay. And then you woke up. What time did you So you were the only one in the house. This morning the back door was open. >> How many times does he run away? >> Does he have any medical issues like ADHD? >> What else? Okay. All right. Hey, do you mind if I go check inside the house? >> All right, let's go in the house together. >> With Ashonda, officers begin searching the house and backyard, hoping Martonio is hiding nearby. But if he's in danger, every second counts. >> All right, the missing is going to be uh 8 years old, male, black, darkkinn, male, black with a fade. Uh black hair, brown eyes. He's short, about 75 lbs. Break. He was last seen about 9:30, 10:00 last night when they went to bed. Mom got up about 11:48. Noticed that the uh back door was open and he's run away three times before. So, if we can have you circulate some parks and areas around here. >> Let me uh let me go check out here real quick. Okay. >> Do you need a medic? Officers search every corner of the house. One area, however, goes unchecked, a locked attic. Unaware that it contained the horrifying answers they were searching for, officers ignored it at the scene. >> Does the parents have any friends that may live in the neighborhood? >> Do you have any friends that are in the neighbor? >> I moved. I walked all the way down to the grandad used to stay on the corner. >> Grandad doesn't live down there. What? >> I haven't seen nobody out when I walked around the >> All right. >> All right. >> Finding no sign of the boy, officers expand the search. >> And uh he was last seen about 9:30, 10:00 last night when everybody went to bed. Mom woke up this morning around, what time did she say? About4 till 12. Noticed that uh you know her one son was gone. the rear door on the house was open. Um, mom says he has done this several times before. Mom is hysterical and uh, son does take medicine for ADHD. Uh, didn't notice anything suspicious. I did clear the house. Didn't notice any suspicious things inside the house. No signs of forced entry. U, and I got units circulating the area right now for the juvenile. Next, the officers gather more information about Martonio's history of running away, seeking to understand why he had run away in the past and what motivated those previous incidents. Hey, Mom. The other times that he ran away, was it during daytime or overnight? >> And how so? Okay, two were at night and one was in the daytime. So, the one time he was found um down the road here at the park right around the corner and then the other time was I guess behind a lady's house right behind her house. >> Why is he kind of Why is you think he running away? >> He's a little unruly and uh there is a case worker and uh she's like he probably got mad because she doesn't give him what he wants. So, and then he kind of has a habit of doing it, I guess. Based on Lashonda's statements, officers suspectio may have run away again, possibly as a result of behaviors associated with his ADHD. But soon, investigators begin to wonder if his mother is hiding something far more sinister. An Amber Alert is issued, and's name is entered into the National Crime Information Cent's missing person's database. Meanwhile, officers begin searching nearby homes and places the 8-year-old is known to visit. >> Hello. Yes, sir. >> Have you seen him at all recently? >> No, sir. >> No. Thank you. >> What's up? You see this kid? >> Show you see him recently. No. All right. No, he ran away. >> Hey guys. >> Hi. >> You How are you? I want to see you guys see this kid. Come over here. I want to see you seen him recently. >> Huh? >> Missing a kid. >> Yeah. Missing a kid. You seen him recently? >> Oh, he scared me. Is that the only picture? >> Yeah, that's the recent one. Have you seen him recently? >> Show him. >> That's No. >> All right. >> He missed it from >> Despite their efforts, there is still no sign of the missing boy. Next, officers head to the Milo Grogan Community Center, a nearby playground in hopes of uncovering any clues about the child's whereabouts. >> These are the kids who have signed here today. You can see if you see his name. We just got back from the swim pool. So the other kids >> Do you guys have like a camp going on or something? >> Yep. >> So you would know if there was somebody that wasn't supposed to be in the camp. >> Exactly. But the center is closed right now for just the camp kids. >> Oh. >> All right. Well, if you see there's he's wearing camo pants and a black shirt. He ran away from home. So we're just trying to find him. So if you see him rolling around here, just let us know. >> All right. Thank you, ma'am. >> By that afternoon, every lead has come up empty. Officers began to fear that something terrible has happened to the child, making it more urgent to find him. So, officers returned to Landanda's home with a cadaavver dog. And that's when the case begins to indicate something deeply disturbing buried beneath the grief. But Landa's behavior suddenly changes. The mother, who had appeared desperate to find her missing son, becomes an obstacle for officers to searching the house with a cadaavver dog. Landa becomes uncooperative and abruptly leaves the scene with her other kids. Now officers are convinced she is hiding something horrific behind those closed doors. They track her and her two other sons to the Hamilton area and soon lose sight of Lashonda in the surrounding residential area. >> What was that, sir? >> So, we're over here looking uh Hamilton and 18. Any other info? >> No, we just know about approximately an hour and a half ago the mom and two children were dropped off in that area and uh just looking for them. So, that's about the time frame you have. Slow right turn. Real slow right turn. >> Keep coming around. >> With no sign of Martonio. Officers return at 6:20 p.m. with a search warrant and cadaavver dogs. The dogs lead them to the locked attic, the only area left unchecked. Inside, officers find a wrapped sleeping bag containing a trash bag. And within it lies the body of 8-year-old Martonio, bearing visible injuries, suggesting brutal torture. Now, the autopsy is about to reveal an even more horrifying truth. Officers begin searching for Lashonda, but the next day, she contacts police herself, already knowing's body has been found. During the conversation, however, she reveals a crucial detail. She hadn't been living alone. She had been sharing the home where officers found Martonio's body with her 33-year-old girlfriend, Janna Low. Both women are now at Janna's mother's house, and investigators began treating them as suspects. With arrest warrants secured, officers head there, but the arrest is about to turn violent. >> Do you want to bring your phone down with you? Is that what you have it when you get out of county? >> I don't my phone not even on. So, >> where's it at? Um, >> somewhere in the house. >> Somewhere in that house? >> Yeah. >> Do you want us to grab it? >> I know my mom's number. >> Can you Well, we need to bring it down with us. >> I don't even know where it is. Like I said, >> well, it'd be easier if you just told us where it is. >> I really don't. I really I'm I'm telling you now. >> Well, then we have Yeah. >> I I I left my phone. Um >> if you just told me it's in the house. >> If we ask you where she left last night. What kind of phone do you got? We'll ask your mom. >> iPhone. Does it have a case on it? >> Yeah. >> Who's Where's mom at? She one. >> As officers return to the house to retrieve her phone, the situation suddenly takes a shocking turn. >> I'm going your ass, bro. For real, bro. If you put your hands on me, bro, I'mma [ __ ] you up, bro. >> What are you talking about, >> man? What's up, bro? >> We're not here for you. >> WHAT'S UP, BRO? >> WHAT'S UP, BRO? >> MAN, what's up, bro? I was here for you. >> What was the problem? >> What's up, bro? >> Yeah, I do. I do. I do. >> It's quickly becoming clear that Janna's family doesn't want police anywhere near the house. So, one officer decides to speak with her mother instead. >> Whatever daughter we have, >> we need her cell phone. She on that that girl that she was with named Smoker Le. I told the detectives that >> Janna's mother tells officers her missing phone may be with Londa. But as officers move to search for it, tensions erupt and they're met with a violent confrontation. >> Hey guys, I'm still talking. What's going to happen is I need everybody to leave the house cuz we're in this house. YOU HAVE TO MEET my dick. What are >> you talking about? What are you talking? >> You can go in the car. >> My dick, bro. >> Bro, if you put your hands on me, bro. >> Get on the [ __ ] ground. >> Get on the ground. >> Every time. >> Every time, dude. >> Every [ __ ] time. >> Get off my [ __ ] >> Get the [ __ ] off me. >> No. HE AIN'T DOING THAT. >> STOP. ROLL ON YOUR STOMACH NOW. PULL OVER. >> PULL OVER. PULL OVER. >> THERE YOU GO. >> PUT YOUR [screaming] HANDS BEHIND. >> WE'LL BACK YOU DOWN, BOSS. >> You just have listened, >> man. >> Bro, you got SOMETHING ON MY FACE. >> STOP. >> Do not spit, dude. >> Do not spit. >> You do NOT GRAB SOMETHING ON OUR BACK. YO, keep spitting. Come on, bro. I'm going to get you, bro. Put my face on the ground, bro. >> I ain't [ __ ] >> Yeah, he did. >> The family members are arrested, but later released as they aren't suspected in Martonio's death. Meanwhile, police arrest both Janna and Lashonda and bring them in for questioning. Now, investigators need to know what happened to Martonio, who was responsible, and why. As officers question Janna, she starts revealing the disturbing truth about life inside the house, leaving them stunned. Now on my Patreon, watch the interrogation of a father accused of killing his baby. The detective snaps and starts hitting him on camera. See the full video at patreon.com/strangerstories. was >> she had talked to she talked to the detectives and I was asking her like, you know, what's going on? She wouldn't really tell me at first. So, when she had told me, finally came out and told me after the body was found in the house, she had told me what was going on. She said she didn't want to lose both of her sons because her 9year-old had beat her other son and death with a rock. So the police wanted to talk to me yesterday and when they came the detectives came to my mom's house. I had just walked out the house and then you know I went to go take her some water. But that's way before I knew about the body. That's way before cuz I don't know what time they have found it. >> Okay. So when um when she told me all I could do is say, "You got to you got to tell them the truth. You got to tell him that your 9-year-old killed your 8-year-old with a rock." And then she was like, "But I don't want to lose my son." I said, "Well, you already lost one. You're going to go to jail. I'm being at risk, you know, helping you out. I just need you to turn yourself in." So I convinced her. Well, it never happened. Y'all said I thought I convinced her to turn herself in [clears throat] about um I don't know maybe 11 or 12 when we split ways >> this morning. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> So I went to my mom's house and I sat there told them that I loved them and I spent a little time with my family. >> Okay. >> When I spent time with my family, I just said I was ready to come and talk to y'all. >> We appreciate that. And I mean because they were saying I was obstruction of justice. I didn't know if they was saying when they had an Amber Alert out for her if they thought I kidnapped her. But I kept telling her like it looked like I kidnapped you. So you need to talk to them please. And she was upset. I was trying to calm her down. She thought that y'all was going to kill her, >> you know, before Yeah. but you know murder you know black person. You know, >> Janna reveals a shocking claim. 9-year-old McKil struck Martonio with a rock. The case takes a disturbing turn. Yet, Janna calmly portrays herself as the one who handled it responsibly. >> It's like, please just turn yourself in and just tell him I killed did it. You know what I'm saying? He beat him to death. What a she told me. And I'm just like, well, all you got to do is just tell them exactly what happened. Just tell him. I mean, going to go to jail, but you'll still be able to support him in there. >> Did she say how Michael did it or I mean, you said a rock >> where it happened or when >> she said, well, I know Antonio always threatened to run away. So, yeah, they was locked in the closet. You know what I'm saying? and I beating in the closet with a rock. So that's all I >> You don't know anything about how much blood there was or >> I don't know if there was any blood. >> Okay. >> I don't know where the rock is. Excuse me. I don't know where the rock is. I don't know if the police found the rock yesterday. Well, they were still out investigating in front of the house today cuz it's supposed to be a candle light or something that when she called her friend and they said, but yeah. >> Okay, >> that's basically all I really know. And I was just like, "Well, babe, you got to turn yourself in. You got to the sooner you turn yourself in." I've been telling them all night so I didn't have a warrant out for my arrest. I'm like, they going to think that I kidnapped you and got you hostage thinking that I did this. >> Yeah, we don't know what to think cuz we couldn't contact you and we couldn't find it, >> right? But I had let her get my phone and it had died. Okay, but >> there's a problem. Janna can't explain what happened after the alleged attack or where the rock went. Instead, she keeps steering the conversation toward how much she cared for Lashonda's children. >> When she called you? She called me around right before she called the police. Maybe 11 in the morning. I I can't remember. >> That's That's yesterday on Friday. Correct. >> Yeah. >> So on Thursday. Um where did where did you spend the night at? >> I was at my mom's house. >> Your mom That's normally where you sleep at, right? >> That's where I live at. >> Okay. Um >> I mean I sleep at her house a lot cuz we in a relationship. So I mean I I wash her clothes. I I do a lot. I cook for the kid. I do a lot around the house when I'm not at my mom's. When I go to my mom's house and wash, you know, our clothes because I got to wash and dryer at my mom's, you know. I just >> So, you weren't over there Thursday. >> No. >> Thursday night. >> I was over there when she called me and I was there looking for her son with her before police came. And then I kept telling her, I said, "Well, call the police back because this, okay, he's a known runaway. That's not right that he's a known runaway." I was getting upset like, you know, a race thing. That's why I was getting upset like because he's black and he's a runaway cuz so many kids coming miss. You know what I'm saying? Now what what upset you >> that I was saying about the police not coming right away because they said he was a known runaway already. So they finally pulled up. It was this officer. He had glasses on, red hair or whatever. And then after he pulled up, another officer pulled up and then the sheriff with the drones had pulled up. >> Okay. >> But we were still out looking for Antonio. >> So where what did she say she did with him? She said he ran away out the back door. >> Okay. Um, so you you never saw him? >> No. >> Okay. >> I just >> As Janna gives scattered answers, investigators switch to direct questions, but they're about to discover she won't be easy to crack. >> What did she tell you she did? >> She told me that she had to hide him so her other son didn't go to jail. >> Where Where did she hide him? >> She told me Well, I found out on the news that he >> On the news. >> Yeah. Up in the attic. Like I said, I was checking >> the news said it was in the attic. >> They said they found him upstairs or something like that in uh >> What did she specifically tell you? >> She told me that she told me she had to hide the body. >> Okay. So, >> did she say where? >> She didn't tell me where. She just said she had to hide him. And that's what, like I said, I found out when I called my sister and they said they found the body. Soon as my sister said they found the body, she was like, "Bae, I gotta tell you something." When she said that, she could told me what happened. >> And you said, you said the rock, right? >> Yeah. >> Where where's the rock now? >> That's what I said. It could be in her house. The police could have got it when they came in and investigated the house. Like they said, the house was still under investigation today. I've been on looking on the news all day. I've been looking to make sure my warrant dropped, but it was it was just becoming too much for me. And I could see like when her warrant didn't never drop that she never turned herself in. So, I wanted to come and clear my name. >> So, let's let's try to narrow down your timeline here so we know exactly. You said that on Thursday night you spent the night at home. Yeah. >> Okay. And then Leanda called you when? >> In the morning time right before she called the police. like around 11:00 in the morning. Okay. >> I was I was >> And then And then you went over to her house. >> Yes. >> And then um you guys, >> she told you he was missing and you took the cats. You went to your mom's house. I know. >> I didn't just take the cats and go to my mom's house. When I arrived there before the police, I walked around to look for Maronia. >> That's what I'm saying. Okay. >> So, it's it's that's not how it just didn't hop like that. I was out there for hours with the police, the drones, everything. I didn't leave off until they said about the dogs and she told her friends to pull off and we went to my mom's. >> Yeah. What What about the dogs? What was so weird about the dogs? >> I don't know. Did >> But did she change? She >> She walked up to the house when they said cuz she signed a paper. So when she went up there, I thought she signed a paper cuz it's bushes right there where we just parked. If y'all look, it's like bushes right there. So, she walked up to the side or whatever. That's all I could see is her walking up there. Then, when she came back down, she got in the car with us. >> Okay. >> And she told Ka to take us to my mom's house. So, >> as the interview continues, she reveals why Londa was so desperate to stop the cadaavver dogs from searching the house. She had really told me that the reason she had left the house cuz it was a bunch of drugs in there. So >> in mom's house. >> Not at my mom's house. >> In her house. >> Yeah. >> Oh. So what? Why did she leave? Why? >> That's why she didn't want the dogs to stay. >> But why did she leave 18th again? >> She left 18th because >> When did she leave your mom's house? Why? Why? >> She left 18th because she's she didn't never tell me why. It was just that she had drugs in the house. That's the whole story from the beginning. Then she finally said after I called the house, like I said, cuz it's it's going it's not. So after basically after the body was found, she ended up telling me the truth. >> And where was this at? At mom's house? >> No. >> So listen, >> it was hours later when it got >> Listen to me. I'm trying to figure out when she left your mom's house. So she got you guys got dropped off by her friend. >> Yeah, she said she was hot. And could I get her something away? I got her. >> So you left and she was still there. >> I went to the store >> and she was But I need to get that part straight though, huh? She was still there. >> No. >> So >> she had said that she >> When did she leave is my question. >> That's what I'm right after. She had talked to the detectives off of my phone. She said that she had a lead off of Carl and Morris Ro >> and she immediately left. How did >> I left off and she said she was waiting on her peoples to pull up. I don't know all of her peoples even though we've been dealing with each other for years. >> So you left first. >> Yeah, I walked off to the store >> to get her water. >> No, I got the water out my mom's house. I went to go try to get credit to get my mom some cigarettes from the store. >> Was Landa's behavior really about drugs or is she hiding something darker? Investigators aren't convinced. Seeing Janna as someone trying to protect her girlfriend, they begin suddenly leading her to believe that they're accepted her story >> background. And >> and this is our point is she's lied to you multiple times, especially recently. So do you think she could have been lying about that? >> What did this? >> I mean, why would she try to help her son and protect him if you know? >> Well, if she didn't want to get in trouble for him. But why would she lie and say her son did it? >> Because he's a juvenile. >> I don't know. >> She's an adult. >> And if she did it, then there's chances she might go to prison for 20, 30, 40 years. I don't know. It's not for me to decide. So, yes, I can totally see why she'd lie about stuff. And she's been very dishonest with >> I just know that basically she told me said Antonio said he was going to hell went to sleep. is gonna pull down his pants and suck his private and word said suck his dick. And then she said just beat him with the rap to death. So if if >> didn't like I think because months ago when she was donating had got her put in jail from the plasma bank. So even when I had the kids then when she went to jail I had the kids. We was at my mom's house. Antonio tried to steal from my mom's house, too. And he got caught there. I took him to the bathroom. I hit him three times with a bell. That was it. I didn't hit him hard. He didn't cry. He didn't do nothing cuz I don't beat no kids. I My mom always taught me not to beat kids. I just hit him three times with a belt, had him go back in there and lay on the couch with my mom and go back to sleep. So, >> a darker story begins to emerge. Yet, Janna still blames Mackielle for hitting Martonio with a rock and claims Leanda was protecting him. But now, Janna's story takes an even darker turn as she begins portraying 8-year-old Martonio as a troubled child who stole food and constantly misbehaved. >> So, where did where did the rock come into play then? That's why I said I don't know where Nate was out was out. If he grabbed it from behind it. I don't know where the rock was at, how it took place. I was never told all of that. >> Mhm. >> So, I just know that the rock be in the house cuz she got it from the grave site and it it was from her cousin's grave site and she said that was the last memory she had. >> So, um when and we'll just go back real quick. When you had the kids and she was in jail. Mhm. >> And he got in trouble for stealing. What was he stealing that time again? >> He stole um a whole box of doughut sticks and left one in there. And he didn't get to eat them. You know what I'm saying? >> So he was hiding the food. >> He was hiding it on the side of the couch, but my mom just had fed them. She We had all ate lasagna. We ate um we ate lasagna, salad, and chicken. >> Okay. >> And when was that? >> That was when she went to jail. Oh, >> okay. So, >> but the explanation she gives for why Mackielle allegedly struck Mario doesn't seem to make much sense and only raises more questions. >> Get this right. Um, Antonio told >> that he was going to pull his pants down and suck his private part. >> That's what she told me. T told her >> and that's that's why he did this. Yeah, absolutely. >> And I know you said you weren't there, but my question to you is you're an adult, you're smart, and you've you've been around these kids. If if he said that he was going to do this, >> why would they lock them both? Why would she lock them both in a closet together? >> Because I don't know because that's the only way she could lock them together. >> Like I was stealing from school. He when he wasn't locked up, he was he came downstairs and she uh he was stealing chips and stuff. So he he was already getting in trouble at school for stealing. So when he came home and stuff, she finally got fed up and she's I'm like, you know, he's doing the same thing doing. What makes him better? You know what I'm saying? They should be treated the same. So >> she treat him different. I'm like at first she she was like was finessing her because he was you know he would start crying and I'm like the crying stuff just because don't cry you know he might be strong and not cry you know what I'm saying cry like he like four years old or something like that so I'm like it's not a difference so why he got to be locked up and he's going to school doing everything was doing that you told me was doing at school. Even though he graduated, he still been being sneaky, doing the same thing, too. >> Relatives and neighbors had already told investigators was treated differently from the other children. Now, believing Janna was a rehearsed story, officers confront her with evidence and watch her reaction. That's why I was asking you the question. We going to find your DNA on him where he was found dead in the house. >> Y'all might find my DNA on his body. Like I said, I interact with >> If you touch me on Tuesday, I'm not finding your DNA on my body on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday. That's not how it works. But if we find your DNA on his body or on anything that was with him, >> that means you've touched him when he went where he is, where he got hidden. >> I mean, >> where he was found dead. So that that's what he's asking you. >> The only thing I can tell y'all, like I said, she don't have plastic bags. I didn't read that or not even read. I didn't even read it. Don't let me lie and say that. Okay. The friend Randela, she got a twohour live on Facebook. I don't know her last name. >> Is that Bubbles or >> her sister Randy? >> Bubbles sister. Okay. >> Yeah, Bubbles is and Bubbles and Rocky came and picked her up, which is the mom and the sister. Randy, the one who That's what Randela is. Randy. So I I seen her whole life. I seen everything that was said that it that I even seen on the news where he was found in a halt. I don't know a a halt sack or a sleeping bag. My brother and them told me that they seen on the news and a trash bag. No, matter of fact, they that wasn't said when the police came out and talked to my mom and they said that. So, we were we were the officers that talked to them. >> Okay. So, here's the thing. >> Like, I didn't seen so much and everything is confusing me right now. >> You said your DNA is all in those trash bags. >> That's my trash bags. I wash her clothes. >> The thing of it is here. Okay. >> It came from my mom's house. I wash clothes. I take >> How do you know which bag was used? >> Only trash bags there is from my mom's house. She didn't have no trash bags. So, I'm telling y'all right now >> that her DNA is on it. That's what you >> I wash clothes. >> Okay, let me look. The thing of it is >> I mean I wash clothes and I take trash back. I take my >> Remember what I said about the DNA and finding it on him? >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> You only helped after the fact. >> I helped what? >> We know you didn't hurt him. >> We know you didn't hurt him. >> I didn't help after the fact. I'm telling y'all the any trash bags I bring trash bags with my clothes in there over all the time. I wash her clothes all the time and bring trash back. >> She can't explain herself. Instead, speaking in circles, but explaining DNA found on Martonio and throughout the scene is harder. Detectives press her further, but her next response only frustrates them more. >> Hell of bags in the house. I touch >> the You're doing so well. >> I'm just telling y'all what I'm I'm telling you, >> John. Like I said, wherever he was found, you can look and see that I didn't touch >> nothing on it that you're this far. >> Okay. I'm sorry. >> You only helped after the fact. >> I didn't help no fact. That's what I keep saying. I didn't help no fact. >> Your DNA is going to be there >> because I bring trash bags over there all the time with my clothes. >> I didn't say that. Do you >> My my attorney is going to go to court and talk. >> Y'all don't think that I don't have attorneys coming. You want to be charged with murder? >> I'm I'm not the murderer. I don't I haven't murdered nobody. She told me her son might >> be charged with it. You helped tamper evidence. >> I didn't tamper with nothing. I'm telling you. >> Are you going to tell a jury? Cuz you you could be charged. >> I bring trash bags there all the time. Y'all, >> that's what you're going to tell the jury. Do you think a juryy's going to believe that >> you were gone for you were gone for two days? Multiple bags. >> Matter. Yes. You're on it. You're done. All you got to do >> I was on a run. Where was I on the run? >> Exactly. You weren't with us. You weren't helping us. You weren't answering questions. >> Turn herself in. >> And that's But that was >> not even turnury. Talk to y'all. >> What juryy's going to believe that? >> My lawyer is going to talk. Y'all know Sam. >> While Janna continues withholding information, investigators bring Lashonda into another room for interrogation. Almost immediately, she breaks down and begins describing what happened that day. >> Just start over as slow as you can about when when you were going to sleep and when you put him in the closet. >> It was June 26th, I remember. Cuz when I found out he was dead, I looked at the phone. >> You looked at your phone. [clears throat] >> What time at night was it? >> We went to bed at like 8:30. I didn't start hearing them doing this until like 9:40 or something. I wasn't really looking at the time. I just got up mad. I turn off about to piss me the [ __ ] off. Stop hitting him. Cuz all I heard was my son like, "Mommy, he keep hitting me." So I get up and I didn't open the closet and I [snorts] stop I stopped hearing it, but I don't know how many times he hit him before I got up. And then I laid back down with my girlfriend. He banging him again. [gasps] And I swear to God, I heard myself go like this. >> I heard Antonio go. I'm sorry. >> And I was in last BREATH AND I GOT UP. WHAT WOULD IT CALL? HE WAS IN THERE LIKE DUDE HIS eyes [snorts] didn't ignore his face. I TOLD HIM TO STOP. I TOLD my son to stop hitting him. He was still hit him. I'm telling you. And I got up already deceased. And I [snorts] I didn't want my son in trouble. I tried to cover it up. I put him in the bag. [snorts] I put him in a plastic bag and I put him in a laundry bag. I tried to hide him in place. I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. I just had to do laundry. I didn't know what else to do. I didn't know how to do this. I'm telling you, this ain't my life. I only see this on TV. I didn't never say this [ __ ] to be me. What the [ __ ] my son? I can't believe I let him do this. But I told him, stop hitting him. >> How many times did you see him hit him? >> I heard him hit him over 10 times. But before we got up, we can't tell you how many times he was hitting. Before I got up, I heard my son saying, "Mommy, he ain't hitting me. My fan, my TV loud." And don't tell him how many times he >> lighting on the couch. >> No, my bedroom is in the front room. I separated their rooms. I sacrificed my room and separated them two cuz they always cute. So, it's only a two-bedroom house. So, I'm downstairs and they in a closet where I I mean, I don't feel like it's bad locking my kids in a closet. >> Both closet closet. Surprisingly, Lashonda's story almost perfectly matches Janna's. Both blame 9-year-old Mackielle forio's death, but investigators suspect they're using a child as a scapegoat. And dig deeper. >> The reason why I was suicidal trying to kill myself, why I hated my life. He felt like was the reason why I was just depressed. And he told me, he said, "You're the reason why mommy like this. I hate I hear them like I hear these words from my kids." Can I tell you stop saying that? You don't even know what the [ __ ] hate mean. How is you not thinking you know what hate me? Like I felt like both of them hated me though cuz I was punishing like I hate I ain't have no what else to do. You can't just beat the [ __ ] out of them. You can't just I'm just like I just don't know how to stay in the closet. When we leave we go together cuz I can't trust them in my house. They shouldn't be in the house by the anyway, >> right? >> I should I should have just got him and looked at that closet and [snorts] checked on my child. I didn't know he was hitting him in his head though. I didn't know where he was hitting me. I heard the hits, but I didn't know where he was hitting me. I'm telling you, I did not know he hit my son on his face like that. And he been hitting me. He been fighting my son. He been mad at my son. He mad cuz he looked just like me. Mad cuz his last name. He hates it. He [laughter] hates it. I don't know why. I don't know. I can't tell you. Landa now tries to portray Mcquille as a child who deeply resented Martonio and ultimately took a drastic step that day. But just like Janna, she cannot explain one crucial detail. What happened to the rock? >> And when you open the door, how many times was he still hitting him that you saw? >> No, he he wasn't hitting no more cuz my was just like dead. I knew he was dead. >> Where's the rock at? >> I let I I grabbed it from him and I left it. I didn't even try to hide the rock. I I only tried to cover that. I didn't >> Where's it at? Just in the car. >> It should be. No, it should be. I don't know if the police got it or not. I don't know. >> Well, we >> I didn't even get the chance to confess and tell them what happened. >> We don't know anything about rocks. What What can you describe the rock to? >> It's a white rock and it's about this big and it's like a point. It got It's got a one little point on the end. So, when I looked at my son, he had black >> like he was he was he [ __ ] my son. [snorts] Telling you I >> So, it's probably still there. >> Yeah. I did not kill my son. I would never like I'm a mom. I've been through [ __ ] I've been homeless. I've been I I can't do this. >> Like Janna, Lashonda portrays herself as a caring mother. But investigators noticed their stories are remarkably similar, suggesting they came prepared with the same version. That story is about to be shattered by a bombshell piece of evidence. >> Janna was there with you. And how often does she stay there? >> A lot. A lot. And she was um But you said you went to bed about 8:30. What time do you remember hearing them hit? >> Around 9 something. Well, 9:48 or something. I think I did. I just I don't know. It was like I just I told you I was in town. So I got up like the [ __ ] How the [ __ ] you hitting him? He on me. He's keep laying on me. I guess he said my son told me when he go to sleep he going to suck his dick. But I don't even know where we get that from. We don't even I got a girlfriend. So I don't understand why he would say that to myself about stuff like that. >> No. No. I got a girlfriend. We don't have We don't even do that. So [clears throat] for him to say that I don't know trying to get him in trouble. I don't know. He's real spiteful like that. [snorts] >> And I just >> He's a smart kid though, isn't he? >> I try to cover it up for him though. It's no That's no reason to lie to y'all. It's It's It's going to make it even worse. So that's why I brought myself. So where where did you put once he's in the trash bag and once >> I left him in the closet and then I got so scared [snorts] >> and I just wanted to cover it up so I reported him missing and I put him in the attic. >> You put him in the attic. >> How did you get in the attic? >> It's just a little pushup crawl space. >> You're not a short person but you're not that tall either. >> My house if you see my house you I haven't been >> It's real short. It's It's like a little house on Prairie. It's not. Next, investigators play a trick to Lashonda by giving one possibility in particular, that Janna may be behind everything that happened to Martonio. >> I don't I can't tell you nothing. I can't >> anything that happened in front of Janna? >> What you mean? >> Did you do anything? Did Did you see you do anything? >> I I can't just make up something. >> I'm not asking you to make up something unless >> I don't have nothing to tell y'all. cuz you you did you this is killing you inside. This hurts. And um you guys are both here um trying cuz you know it's eventually we're going to um get with you and talk to you and um but you guys are so close but he he didn't die by my didn't kill him. And >> so you're saying I killed him? I'm not saying anything about say how >> I'm not going to say that. >> I don't know. I can't tell y'all. Like >> just remember we you know we talked to to Janna. >> She I hope she told cuz I don't how did he die if it wasn't from him all the time. I don't understand. I keep I don't know. Like I said they'd be in the closet with each other the most. So I don't know. Can't tell y'all nothing. I told you. >> Despite detectives efforts to play Janna against her, Londa remains careful with her answers. So, they confront her with the autopsy findings andio's actual cause of death. >> They're saying that did not beat him to death. He did not kill him. >> I didn't. >> I didn't beat my son to death. >> You're right. >> You're right. You're absolutely right. >> I did. >> We We know you didn't beat him. >> What else did you hit him with other than the core? >> Nothing. I'm telling you to be, man. I'm telling you, I'm always there when she has them doing that. Like I She watches my kids, too. But >> I did not hit him with I'm telling you, I did not I didn't hit my son with anything. They fought I did not hit my son with nothing. I'm telling you, I didn't hit my son with anything. >> So, what else did you use? >> I didn't use anything. The only thing they got with it was that cord I just told you about. This the pink stitching cord. But other than that, I didn't hit them with anything. I didn't hit the window. >> Um >> I didn't hear. >> So why did we have to Why did we have to throw the crutch away then? >> Them I was I been off the crutches though. >> Why did we have to throw the crutch away? >> Cuz I've been >> that day. No, that night >> they been. >> Why did we have to throw the crutch away? >> The crutches got thrown away >> that night. Because >> Thursday because the trash came Thursday. I'm trying. My trash comes th me to lie. Just like she was throw the ball away cuz all our stuff was >> ask a question. Not did how how >> how did you use the crutch that night? >> I didn't I'm telling you I did not hit him with this crutch. I did not kill my son. I didn't beat him to death or none of that. I'm >> How How did you use it? >> I didn't use it on my son. Matter of fact, only time the crutches was used is when she had his toes banged with the crutches, but bang his toes. So like he just took it and just bang bang bang. So it was I didn't All right. I can't wait when when this when I take the light test and prove it. I'm going be like, "Well, somebody she need to take one, too." Cuz I didn't hit him. >> She wants to take one, too. >> Yeah. >> But everybody wants to take a lie detector test. >> I didn't hit him. What all you guys have done is give us limited truth. Finally come off of something. Give us more a little bit more truth. Finally come off lie lie lie. Bring a little bit more truth and we're at this point and we're done. >> The autopsy reveals died from strangulation. With severe hemorrhaging around his neck still denies involvement, but under mounting pressure, her story is about to collapse, revealing a horrifying truth. >> I didn't beat my son to death. Tell me. No, I don't think you beat him with a rock to death. No, >> I didn't beat him with the crust to death. If I >> did not beat your son with a rock to death. >> No, we all know even yourself. You did not kill your son. >> I thought he did cuz when he he was still alive when I So he was never But y'all trying to tell me my son was dead before I put him in the closet. That wouldn't make no sense. He would have already dead if I beat him to death. He would have already been dead. That's what I'm saying. I didn't say that either. Tell us. >> No, we didn't say that. >> I didn't beat him to death. >> We didn't say that. You beat him to death. >> That's my baby. I wouldn't I wouldn't kill my kids. I don't understand why people would I didn't beat him to death. I >> I mean I I don't think I mean I wasn't there. I don't think you're like I'm going to effing kill you and you're you're doing it to kill anybody. It's just that you've had a system of um and I'm just going to say it. You might try and call it discipline. Uh but you had a system of abuse. You lock two little kids into a tiny closet where they don't even have room to fully lay down and you lock them in the closet all night while you sleep in a bed with your girlfriend. >> She the one who suggested it. She suggested all THIS [ __ ] MAN. SHE >> listen to me. >> [ __ ] >> Well, so the abuse of hitting him with cords and making him do weird things with a medicine. >> But did she tell you he she hit me too? >> She has. >> Yeah. Yeah, she did. >> She made me You need to Man, no, man. You, man. >> I tell y'all the truth. No, she No, she >> What did she do then? How did she do this? >> I want to tell [laughter] this is awful. [gasps] I didn't kill my baby. Please don't tell me I'm done. >> Who killed him? >> If you did, then who cares? >> I didn't kill me. >> Then who did? Who did? We know who killed him. >> We know who killed him. >> If I did, if me and her did, it wasn't intentional. I didn't >> We know that >> didn't kill our baby. Tell us what happened. >> Then what happened? >> We [laughter] both hit him with a crutch. >> Crutch. She said, he said, "Man, she was telling him, she was tell that's why the ball look like that, cuz she had my drop it on his head and just keep hitting. She had a She look like my son." As the interview goes on, Landa slowly begins exposing the horrific treatment endured inside the home at the hands of both women. Even so, she refuses to admit to murder. And detectives know she's still holding something back. >> What did she have you do? What did you do? >> I do not. She's hit him [laughter] with a crutch. >> Where? Where? >> On his leg and stuff. >> How did he die? >> I don't know. I I don't know. I swear to God, I don't know. I would have never just killed my child. I don't know. >> But we know, >> but he didn't kill him. kind of trying to put on him cuz he's a kid. >> No, I was not trying to put on him. He died after he got back in that closet. They was both up screaming and arguing. So, how was he dead? HOW DID HE DIE? >> Because you guys abused him over and over and OVER >> and he had no muscle tone and he had no fat because he was starving to death. >> I did. >> And you killed him. I didn't. >> Cuz you continually beat him. >> I did >> with the crutch. >> I did. >> Are you him? >> I didn't HIT HIM LIKE THAT THOUGH. SHE'S my man. >> How many times did you hit him? >> Not even five times. >> Not even five times. >> His legs to make him >> 35 lbs this 8-year-old weighs. And you hit him five times with a crutch. And that's after hitting him how many times with the pink cord? >> How many times? >> They're both the same. >> Okay. And they're different kids and they wait and they wait for the mouse. >> You don't go against the >> You took the crutch while he's standing there and you put it up against his neck. >> He did that. She told him to shut the [ __ ] up cuz she keep waking her up. >> What did she DO THEN? >> SHE I JUST TOLD HER SHE HAD IT UP AGAINST HIS neck cuz he kept waking her up. She was tired of him waking her up. [laughter] >> Where was he at when she done it? >> In [clears throat] the closet. and outside the closet. >> I'm not lie to y'all. Y'all can't I'm not >> Well, you've been like you WAS THE WHOLE TIME THIS LONG. >> I JUST I JUST I was just going to tell you how I did everything, but it wouldn't make no sense cuz she >> You're not strong enough to do it, bro. [laughter] You're not strong enough to take it for everybody. You put it on your son. [laughter and gasps] >> But he had her fight. You're a grown woman that weighs OVER 200 LB. HITTING HIM WITH THE CROSS. >> I'm sorry. >> I'm sorry FOR >> just 49 in tall and 35 lb, 8-year-old Martonio showed signs of prolonged abuse. His body revealed severe bruising, cuts, muscle loss, and a severely emaciated body. His eyes and abdomen were completely sunken, while his ribs, collar bones, pelvis, and kneecaps visibly protruded through his skin. To detectives, this wasn't one violent incident. It suggested prolonged abuse and starvation. Yet, Lashonda still denied any role in his death. >> Okay, there is a difference between manslaughter and murder. >> I didn't KILL ME. AND I I FEEL LIKE WE BOTH GOT HIM, BUT WE WASN'T TRYING TO KILL HIM. WE WANT TO TRY TO KILL YOU. WHY DON'T WE TRY TO KILL HIM? WHY? AND LOSE MY LIFE AND LOSE ALL. NO, THAT'S NOT WHAT WE INTENTIONALLY TRIED TO DO. Went too far, didn't it? She went She just beat I stopped a couple. I'm telling you. I stopped you like, "No, no, that's not fair. I'M TELLING YOU. YOU GOT TO BELIEVE ME." And then she she would do some more. AND THEN YOU NO, NO, I DIDN'T LIKE IT. I DIDN'T LIKE IT. I HATE IT. SHE WOULD MAKE ME OH, he stole. Don't feed him. He stole. Don't feed him. He don't give a [ __ ] He disrespected HIM. DON'T GIVE HIM [ __ ] DON'T GIVE HIM NO WATER. I'm telling you, I did not do this. I didn't want my baby dead. Why would I want my baby dead? Why? No, he need to say that. >> No, he didn't. >> No, he didn't. He didn't. >> She need to say she made ME JUST I WANTED I'M LIKE, I NEED TO FEED HIM. [laughter] I NEED to feed him. She like, no, he going to just turn around and steal anyway. Even though he was, but still, I told yo, she she mad at him. She [ __ ] up the walls and closet. She like, don't give him [ __ ] He don't need, you know, don't give him nothing. Well, he has nothing in the house anyway. But he said, "Don't care about this." He said, "Don't give him this." >> And he spent all day for conspiring and coming up with this plan to talk about him running away. Correct. >> Yes. >> And to blame. >> I wasn't trying to You got to understand I thought I really thought that for real. I didn't think that I DID THAT. BUT I DID NOT THINK I DID THAT. I DID NOT THINK I DID THAT. WHY WOULD I THINK I DID THAT? I DIDN'T KNOW. >> FROM Landanda's account, one thing becomes increasingly clear. Janna did not like Martonio and frequently beat him. >> Martonio just wouldn't shut up. He kept fighting. He It just went too far. You were tired. You were both tired of him up. >> I wasn't. They always I got a date. They always wake me up. She just It's just I don't know something about her. She just >> She always says she has to ask her. She says she hate kids. She'll tell you I hate kids. Like I can't tell you. I did not I did not kill my son. >> Before we walk out the doors, >> please. >> Okay. >> I did. [gasps] >> Before we walk out these doors, >> is there anything else that you think is important that we need to know? >> I didn't I didn't want this. This was not This is an accident. It was not intentional. I wasn't never trying to kill my child, man. Well, you understand it was an accident. >> Trying to kill my baby. You're never coming back. No, I don't want to live with this. [laughter] I can't. >> Meanwhile, detectives confront Janna with Londa's claims and ask her to demonstrate exactly what she witnessed that day. But Janna continues portraying Lashonda as a loving mother, insisting the cover up was only to protect McKielle from murder charges. But um she did tell us that you guys were sleeping together when they were in the closet fighting. >> Yeah, I can tell y'all the truth since she told you. >> Okay. >> Okay. The rock is at the house. It's a heart-shaped rock. >> Okay. >> When we open that closet, have beat that boy so bad in his face and he was dead. And I swear to God on my dad beat that boy to death with that rock. >> Okay. >> He beat his brother to death with that rock. He did. And then what happened afterwards? >> I was there and I can't even lie. I can't. I was there. She put him in the bag. Like I said, they the laundry bags I touch my I do laundry all the time. She put him in the bag and she put him in the closet. That's where I left Thursday or left at >> I never left at all. I never left. >> You were there that one time. When When did this happen? [sighs] Cuz it didn't happen Friday. No, >> it didn't happen. >> It happened on the 26th. >> 26th. Wednesday night. >> Wednesday. >> At night time. >> That's what she said. >> We woke up. I had beat him to death. >> Yeah. >> With that rock in his face on the corner of the rock. I haven't touched the rock. I mean, I touched it when I hammered it the the um curtain up on the thing. That's way I had got the rock and beat him in the face with the rock. Oh, you you were using the rock for something else before. >> We we used the rock to hammer cuz we don't have a hammer to hammer up the sheet. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> Being [clears throat] with the corner of the rock all in his face. >> Um >> that's why I kept saying I know for killed >> killed his brother. Killed killed >> because Antonio said he was gone. >> Yeah, I know. I heard what you said before. You don't say it again. Um, and you just held the bag for You didn't put him in it? >> No. >> You just held the bag and she shut him in. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> How did How did she put him in there? >> She just She picked him up and just laid him in the bag. >> Which way? I mean, you know what I'm trying to get at? I don't want to say that. I don't want to put words in. >> I mean, she she just picked She was scared. >> So, she picked him up and, you know, >> Well, kind of. >> She just did that. Yeah. Go ahead. Yeah. Can you kind of stand up? And you're >> So you you be you. >> This it. >> You have the bag there. Okay. And then >> she she picked him up cuz Martonio was small. >> Where was he at when she picked him up? >> She got him out the closet. >> Okay. All right. >> Where he died at. And then she picked him up and she put him in the bag and she said, "I can't let my son go down for this." >> Okay. >> But I was We was sleep. We woke up to him dead in the closet. What what he look like in the in the in the closet? How was he Can you >> How was Can How was When you saw him in the closet, how was he positioned or what where how was he? >> Uh when I seen him in the closet, he was like this like his arm was on the the medicine sand ball, whatever. Leaned over on the ball like this. >> Ball was still in there. >> Yeah. And and he just his eyes was open. And >> was he breathing? >> No. >> No. >> No. >> How did How How did you know he was dead? >> I just know. I just seen a drool in his eye. He didn't blink. Nothing. >> There was nothing. >> You didn't see blood. He didn't bleed. >> No. When I said Antonio, no movement, nothing. All it was he just drooled. >> Did you shake him or try and breathe into him or >> No, I didn't. [clears throat] >> You didn't try and Nobody tried to wake him up or try and make him Do you know what CPR is? >> I don't know how to do I know what it is. I don't know how to do it. But like [clears throat] I said, he was sitting in the closet like his arm was on the ball and I think one I can't exactly remember. I just know his arms was something like this and it was just drool and he was like this sitting there drooling >> and what was >> he didn't move he didn't blink nothing. Okay. So, he was like that. Now, show me when the door was open where was at. >> He said, >> "Where was he?" >> Was sitting down right there, too. He was sitting right next to him. Antonio was sitting this way. Was this way. >> So, they were feet to feet looking each other. >> Yeah. And again, I had broke that boy's nose. When I look, his nose was broke, man. I just told her, I said, "Go kill him. You need to tell he killed me. I need to You need to call the police." She like, "I can't go down. I can't like I can't lose two of my son." Like, we going to go to jail. So, you need to just call and tell them that like I'm going to go to jail. I'm like, we all going to go to jail. Like, >> but now detectives confront Janna with autopsy findings that contradict her story. She keeps pointing to the rock, insisting died from blunt force trauma, but the evidence says otherwise. And Janna still blames Mackielle for his death. Like we just watched it on my phone where a 13year-old killed his oneyear-old brother or something like strolling through my Facebook killed his oneyear-old I can't even remember. I know he killed him and a boy did juvie something to life but it was already the boy had broke his brother's legs and the mom tried to cover up it and I'm like it's not no way you could cover up. I don't care how young your son is. [clears throat] He killed him. Yeah. >> Was there what all was in the closet that you saw >> that that medicine ball and the uh rock? >> Where was the rock at? >> Came out and gave it to his mom when she opened the closet and you killed him. He came out and gave the rock to his mom. So it and it's blood on the corner of the rock. It's a heart-shaped rock. I don't know where it is. It could be on a mental piece. >> I I I think we've got the rock. So, uh, you know, he went to the Frank County corner's office and the doctors examined his body to look for all the kinds of uh injuries that he had and what could have killed him. Like if he had a bullet wound, they they tracked the direction it goes. Stab wounds, how deep it is, how big the knife could be, you know what I mean? And those they're basically scientists. They're doctors, right? Okay. >> Much smarter than we are. Yeah. >> Um and they tell us what's um what caused the death, whether he has poisons in him or they use drugs, fentanyl in the house. There's no >> So what caused the death? Blood trauma? >> No, ma'am. No way. >> Um so well, let me ask you this. Um again, you guys, you're doing awesome, but is there something that was wrapped around him that when you when he was placed in the bag, there's nothing else in the bag, right? >> Right. So, is there something else that's going to have his DNA on that was wrapped around him? >> No, nothing. The only thing that was was the cords that was connected to the Martonio was not wrapped up at all. >> So, that cord wasn't wrapped around him. >> No cord was wrapped around Martonio. >> Okay. >> Not nothing. No cord was wrapped around Martonia. >> Not in the closet or anything? >> No. >> Nobody wrapped the cord around. >> No. Only thing I'm telling y'all, this sand ball was in the closet. Said he was hitting with the sand ball and a rock and he said he was beating more than his chest and his face and then his knees. And he said in his anything he could hit on, he was beating his his feet, anything. Cuz he said Antonio was sitting on him in the closet. But like I said, she did say, "Stop [ __ ] hitting him. >> Stop beating on him. Stop doing that to him." >> Where did she say that from? >> We was laying in the bed. >> Laying in the bed, >> but we was still half sleep. But we could still hear hollering and saying, "Can't nobody hear you?" And I said, "Stop doing that shit." And by the time we open the closet cuz we didn't hear Martonia no more even we didn't hear him hitting nothing no more. By the time we open the door was dead in the closet. >> And and like we said the the doctors are much smarter than us. >> Yeah. [snorts] >> And they're the ones who testify in court. >> Yeah. >> And tell the jury, the judge, the defense, the prosecution. >> There was nothing wrong how how someone dies. Mhm. >> And he did not die from being hit in the head. >> But it y'all seen the body, right? >> Oh, we did not. No. Again, we have different >> When I seen him, >> when I seen him, >> I couldn't really see. But when she brought him out that closet, it was so many ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding. His face. He said, "I beat him all in his chest. I beat him in his knees, in his face. His nose was broke." >> I could see his nose was like this big. Oh god. >> And then she was like, "I I can't lose two of my sons." That's what she kept saying. >> Your brother was dead. >> He knew. We told him. We we when we open that door >> and seen him, >> you killed him. >> You killed this boy. >> And what did he say and do to his mom like this? >> I swear to God. Like it was something like But I mean, we couldn't be hard on him. You know what I'm saying? We didn't want to scare him, but he beat that boy with that rock. And I don't know, the sand ball was in there. Like I said, Martoni, it was under his arm and he died with his eyes open. >> Okay. >> But unlike Landa, Janna portrays herself as someone who loved Martonio and opposed the way he was being treated. But what she reveals next about Lashonda paints a clear picture of her evil intentions. >> She She >> What What else did she do with the cord? >> She She put She I don't I can't even remember everything. >> I know. Before I had to stop her though from choking out. >> Yeah, >> that's what we're talking about. >> That's what we're talking about. >> That's not this day. Not at all this day. Not at all. I swear not at all this day. She didn't choke him with that cord. >> Well, when did she had choked him? Me and her got into it and I even left the house cuz I'm like >> you treat better than Antonio. Like I told y'all and they do the same thing. >> I like know I said harsh things through text. Yeah. >> I'm like, well, well, to be honest, I don't even like Martonio is my favorite. I don't even like, you know what I'm saying? I'm like manipulate you and at least do it out in the open, you know? >> Yeah. So, you So, you've seen her choke before with a cord. >> Yeah. Around his neck. >> Yeah. It was way months ago, though. I had pushed her into the wall and she had >> it's happened more recent than that. >> I I didn't see her choke him with that. >> So, the thing of it is >> I just seen her smack him in the back. I don't know when >> Janna claims Landa had previously choked with a cord, but insists it didn't happen this time. Detectives spot the contradiction. She's implicating Londa while distancing herself. Then the interview takes an unexpected turn. >> Did you do it? >> I swear to God, no. I didn't even know he was choked. Martonio was still >> He did. >> Nobody. That's what I'm saying. >> Well, what do you The doctor The reason we're asking is because of the doctor's evidence, >> right? But I'm saying to y'all, Antonio, he was still alive. It after >> what? >> When >> when he had went in the closet, she whooped him with the stitch cord. I don't know about her choking him with no stitch cord. I swear I was like I said I was in the front room on the bed. Her and him went outside. They came back in. She hit him. I could hear her hitting him with the stitchy cord. >> How many times? like it was she didn't want to hit him a lot because he already had a lot of you know bruises on him. They had to go to court re coming up court date coming up. So she didn't hit him a lot. >> What's a lot to you? >> She hit him at least four I mean uh five to six times cuz he already had a a lot of um scars on him. >> And and and I will tell you I would I would caution trying to protect her. I'm I'm not I'm not >> because I'm not >> She's not protecting you. >> The doctor knows that a 9-year-old did not kill him. >> I didn't I I I haven't I don't >> I don't even hit I hit him at my mom's house. That's all I did. >> We're not saying you >> We're not saying that you did. All I'm saying is when you go to court >> that day, I didn't see her >> I didn't see her choking with a cord. Well, >> what did you see her choking with? [sighs] I've seen her put crutches her crutch. >> Janna claims Leanda had previously choked with a cord, but insists it didn't happen this time. Detectives spot the contradiction. She's implicating Lashonda while distancing herself. Then the interview takes an unexpected turn. >> Yeah, now you're kidding. But >> they put her fresh water on >> like Antonio was she put like I said she put him in the closet. >> Uhhuh. >> Mar Antonio was still everything. So it wasn't like it touch it didn't never touch his neck cuz you see how skinny his neck is. >> Her crutches for her is big. >> Uhhuh. >> So she just stuck it. She said that if you don't shut up, I'mma beat you. >> Okay. >> That's all she did. >> So So where did she put the crotch? >> Um >> you were holding your neck. >> Yeah, you hold it. >> Yeah. No, I'm I'm I'm going I in the trash. >> No, no, no. On him. What did she >> That's what I said. The crutch like on her tummy. >> Okay. >> And she stuck it like his neck is skinny. So like the crutch like it touched the corner of the wall. That's what I said. It never touched his neck. So >> you I'll here I'll be okay. >> Yeah. >> And then you show me what you saw. >> The crutch is you know how the crutch and then it never touched his neck. >> How do you know? >> I can see from the bed from where he stayed in the clo. >> Okay. So, so he's here and what did he what did you see her do again? What's the crush? So, so >> one hand, two hand show. >> Yeah, just the crush. >> And then look at me. Look at me. Lengthwise this but it wasn't straight on my wall. It was he was in the corner. >> So she had the part that goes under her arm was here against up here. >> Yeah. >> And she was holding it. >> No. Yeah. She just And she said, "If you don't be quiet, I'mma beat your ass." Antonio could still breathe. He even said okay. But it is one thing I forgot to say. I do remember saying I was choking him and everything. I swear. >> Why is the crutch Why is the crutch in the trash? >> Because um >> because that's what was used. >> No, the crutch is in the trash. >> No, listen. the crutch is in the trash cuz she was already hidden with the crutch before that he even came up dead or anything. >> We're trying to hide the evidence. >> And I'm not trying to hide no evidence. >> Well, you're you're it took us a long time to get to this point and that's why >> I forgot all about >> We're trying to get you out of the trouble. >> Yeah, that's the thing. We were trying >> I forgot all about that >> and she's trying to put everything on you. But that's because you guys discussed it and you guys did not discuss the crush because the crutch wasn't supposed to come into play with your stories. >> The cr you could >> that's why neither one of you talked about the crutch. That's why she's not going to bring up the crutch. >> Well, you trust and believe tr >> that DNA on that crutch is is obviously on Martonia >> and of course her. And I I know you don't want to say it. I know it hurts you to say that, >> but I'm I'm telling you, >> but if you look at me, and this is what he's been trying to tell you. No, please. Just listen. Please listen. You know, I'm not yelling at you. I'm not screaming at you. >> I'm trying to help you, but when you don't say it, and you keep sticking with this story that's not true, the courts are going to say you're as guilty as she is, and you're going to get a murder charge. We don't want to write that charge. I I I'm telling y'all it was that's the only thing I seen was the >> But that's my point though. You saw enough. But you cannot keep saying that he's the one that caused this cuz you watched her do it >> and then you're going to go to jail for murder. >> He did. He was not dead after she did that. Crutch him cuz he was still saying we tried. We tried. We tried. I'm not lying. I swear to God y'all could give me a test. I could take a lie detector test. Antonio was not dead after she did the crutch. He was not dead. He was in the closet. Was beating him with the rock. He said he had choked him. He had before they even beating with the sand ball. Threw the sand ball on his chest. He was kicking him in his neck in his head. All type of man. >> I know. Hey, we do appreciate it. However, Janna never fully reveals what happened inside that house. In the end, on the basis of evidence, both she and Lashonda are charged with the murder of 8-year-old Martonio Wilder. Later, during trials, both women plead guilty to murder and gross abuse of a corpse. In separate hearings during the summer of 2025, they are each sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 15 years. today. Both remained behind bars, >> dead and closed. >> What What he look like in the in the in the closet? How was he >> How was How was When you saw him in the closet, how was he positioned or what where How was he? >> Uh when I seen him in the closet, he was like this, like his arm was on the the medicine sand ball, whatever. Leaned over on the ball like this. ball was still in there. >> Yeah. And and he just his eyes was open. And >> was he breathing then? >> No. >> No. >> No. >> How did How How did you know he was dead? >> I just know. I just seen a drool. And it's He didn't blink. Nothing. >> There was You didn't see He didn't bleed. >> No. When I said Antonio, no movement, nothing. All it was he just drooled. >> Did you shake him or try and breathe into him or >> No, I didn't. >> You didn't try No, nobody tried to wake him up or try and make him Do you know what CPR is? >> I don't know how to do I know what it is. I don't know how to do it. But like I said, he was sitting in the closet like his arm was on the ball and I think one I can't exactly remember. I just know his arms was something like this and it was just drool and he was like this sitting there drool >> and what was >> he didn't move he didn't nothing >> okay so he was like that now show me when the door was open where uh was at >> he said >> where was he sitting down right there too he was sitting right next to him was sitting this way over to this way. >> So they were feet to feet >> looking each other. >> Yeah. And again I had broke that boy's nose. When I look his nose was broke, man. I just told her I said kill him. You need to tell he killed me. I need to You need to call the police. She like I can't go down. I can't like I can't lose two of my sons. like we going to go to jail so you need to just call and tell them that like I'm going to go to jail. I'm like we all going to go to jail like >> but now detectives confront Janna with autopsy findings that contradict her story. She keeps pointing to the rock insisting died from blunt force trauma but the evidence says otherwise. And Janna still blames for his death. Like we just watched it on my phone where a 13-year-old killed his one-year-old brother or something like strolling through my Facebook killed his one-year-old I can't even remember. I know he killed him and a boy did Julie something to life but it was already the boy had broke his brother's legs and the mom tried to cover up it and I'm like it's not no way you could cover up it. I don't care how young your son is. He killed him. Yeah. >> Was there what all was in the closet that you saw >> that that medicine ball and the uh rock? >> Where was the rock at? >> Came out and gave it to his mom when she opened the closet and you kill him. He came out and gave the rock to his mom. So it and it's blood on the corner of the rock. It's a heart-shaped rock. I don't know where it is. It could be on a mental piece. >> I I I think we've got the rock. So, uh, you know, he went to the Frank County corner's office and the doctors examined his body to look for all the kinds of, uh, injuries that he had and what could have killed him. Like if he had a bullet wound, they they tracked the direction it goes. Stab wounds, how deep it is, how big the knife could be, you know what I mean? And there's they're basically scientists. They're doctors, right? Okay. >> Much smarter than we are. Yeah. Um, and they tell us what's um, what caused the death, whether he has poisons in him or they use drugs. He had fentanyl in the house. There's no >> So, what caused the death? Blood trauma? >> No, ma'am. No way. >> Um, so, well, let me ask you this. Um, again, you guys, you're doing awesome, but is there something that was wrapped around him that when you when he was placed in the bag, there's nothing else in the bag, right? >> Right. So, is there something else that's going to have his DNA on that was wrapped around him? >> No, nothing. The only thing that was was the cords that was connected to the Martonio was not wrapped up at all. >> So, that cord wasn't wrapped around him. >> No cord was wrapped around. >> Okay. >> Not nothing. No cord was wrapped around Martonia. >> Not in the closet or anything? >> No. Nobody wrapped the cord in. >> No. Only thing I'm telling y'all, this sand ball was in the closet. Said he was hitting with a sand ball and a rock. And he said he was beating more than his chest and his face and then his knees. And he said in this anything he could hit on Antonio, he was beating his his feet, anything. Cuz he said Martonio was sitting on him in the closet. But like I said, she did say, "Stop [ __ ] hitting him. >> Stop beating on him. Stop doing that to him." >> Where did she say that from? >> We was laying in the bed. >> Laying in the bed. >> But we was still half sleep, but we could still hear holler and saying, "Can't nobody hear you?" And I said, "Stop doing that shit." And by the time we open the closet, cuz we didn't hear Martonia no more. Didn't even we didn't hear him hitting him with nothing no more. By the time we open the door, Martia was dead in the closet. >> And and like we said, the the doctors are much smarter than us. >> Yeah. >> And they're the ones who testify in court. >> Yeah. >> And tell the jury, the judge, the defense, the prosecution. >> There was nothing wrong. how how someone dies >> and he did not die from being hit in the head. >> But it y'all seen the body, right? >> Oh, we did not. No. Again, we have different >> When I seen him, >> when I seen him, I couldn't really see. But when she brought him out that closet, it was so many dink dink. His face. He said, "I beat him all in his chest. I beat him in his knees. In his face. His nose was broke. I could see his nose was like this big. >> Okay. >> And then she was like, I I can't lose two of my sons. That's what she kept saying. >> His brother was dead. >> He knew. We told him. >> We when we open that door and see him. You killed him. You killed this boy. And >> what did he say and do? to his mom like this. I swear to God. Like it was something like but I mean we couldn't be hard on him. You know what I'm saying? We didn't want to scare him. But he beat that boy with that rock. And I don't know the sand ball was in there. Like I said, Martoni, it was under his arm and he died with his eyes open. >> Okay. >> But unlike Londa, Janna portrays herself as someone who loved Martonio and opposed the way he was being treated. But what she reveals next about Lashonda paints a clear picture of her evil intentions. >> She She >> What What else did she do with the cord? >> She She put She I don't I can't even remember everything. I know before I had to stop her though from choking out. >> Yeah, >> that's that's what we're talking about. >> That's what we're talking about. >> That's not this day. Not at all this day. Not at all. I swear. Not at all this day. She didn't choke him with that cord. >> What? When did she >> She had choked him. Me and her got into it and I even left the house because I'm like, >> "You treat better than Antonio?" Like I told y'all and they do the same thing. >> I'm like, "No, I said harsh things through text." >> I'm like, "Well, well, to be honest, I don't even I was saying to her and like is my favorite. I don't even like You know what I'm saying? I'm like manipulate you and at least do it out in the open, you know. >> Yeah. So you So you've seen her choke Martonio before with a cord. >> Yeah. >> Around his neck. >> Yeah. It was way months ago though. I had pushed her into the wall and she had >> It's happened more recent than that. >> I I didn't see her choke him with that. So the thing of it is >> I just seen her smack him in the back. I don't know when claims Lashonda had previously choked Martonia with a cord, but insists it didn't happen this time. Detectives spot the contradiction. She's implicating Londa while distancing herself. Then the interview takes an unexpected turn. >> Did you do it? >> I swear to God, no. I didn't even know he was choked. Martonio was still >> Did nobody. That's what I'm saying. What? What do you The doctor The reason we're asking is because of the doctor's evidence, >> right? But I'm saying to y'all, Antonio, he was still alive. It as >> what? >> When >> when he had went in the closet, she whooped him with the stitch cord. I don't know about her choking him with no stitch cord. I swear I was, like I said, I was in the front room on the bed. her and him went outside. They came back in. She hit him. I could hear her hitting him with the stingy cord. >> How many times? >> Like it was she didn't want to hit him a lot cuz he already had a lot of, you know, bruises on him. They had to go to court re coming up, court date coming up. So, she didn't hit him a lot. >> What's a lot to you? >> She hit him at least four. Well, I mean, uh, five to six times cuz he already had a a lot of, um, scars on his neck. >> And And I will tell you, I would I would caution trying to protect her. >> I'm I'm not I'm not >> because because I'm not. >> She's she's not protecting you. >> Just the the doctor knows that a 9-year-old did not kill him. >> I didn't I I haven't I don't I don't even hit I hit him at my mom's house. That's all I did. We're not saying you >> We're not saying that you did, but all I'm saying is when you go to court >> that day, I didn't see her. >> I didn't see her choking with a cord. >> Well, what did you see her choking with? >> I seen her put crutches her crutch. >> Janna claims Landa had previously choked with a cord, but insists it didn't happen this time. Detectives spot the contradiction. She's implicating Lashonda while distancing herself. Then the interview takes an unexpected turn. >> Yeah, now you're getting it. >> But >> put on >> like Antonio was she put, like I said, she put him in the closet. >> Uhhuh. >> Maronio was still everything. So it wasn't like it touch it didn't never touch his neck cuz you see how skinny his neck is. Her crutches for her is big. >> Uhhuh. >> So she just stuck it. She said that if you don't shut up, I'mma beat you. >> Okay. >> That's all she did. >> So So where did she put the crotch? >> Um >> you were holding your neck. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. No, I'm I'm I'm going I in the trash. >> No, no, no. On him. What did she >> That's what I said. The crutch like on her tummy. >> Okay. And she stuck it like his neck is skinny. So like the crutch like it touched the corner of the wall. That's what I said. It never touched his neck. So >> you I'll here I'll be. Okay. Yeah. >> And then you show me what you saw. >> The crutch is You know how the crutch And then it never touched his neck. >> How do you know? I can see from the bed from where he stayed in the closet. >> Okay. So So he's here and what did he what did you see her do again with the crush? So So one hand, two hand. >> Yeah, just the crush. >> And then look at me. Look at me lengthwise. >> Like this, but it wasn't straight on the wall. It was He was in the corner. >> So she had the part that goes under her arm was here against up here. >> Yeah. >> And she was holding it. >> No. Yeah. She just and she said, "If you don't be quiet, I'mma beat your ass." Antonio could still breathe. He even said, "Okay, but it is one thing I forgot to say." I do remember saying I was choking him at everything. I swear. >> Why is the crutch Why is the crutch in the trash? >> Because um >> because that's what was used. >> No, the Listen, listen. The crutch is in the trash cuz she was already hidden with the crutch before that he even came up dead or anything. >> We're trying to hide the evidence. >> And I'm not trying to hide no evidence. >> Well, you're you're it took us a long time to get to this point. And that's why >> I have forgot. >> We're trying to get you out of the trouble. >> Yeah, that's the thing. We were trying forgot all about that >> and she's trying to put everything on you. But that's because you guys discussed it and you guys did not discuss the crush because the crush wasn't supposed to come into play with your stories. >> The cr you could >> that's why neither one of you talked about the crutch. That's why she's not going to bring up the crutch. >> Well, you trust and believe tr >> that DNA on that crutch is is obviously on Martonia >> and of course her. And I I know you don't want to say it. I know it hurts you to say that, >> but I'm I'm telling you, >> but if you look at me and this is what he's been trying to tell you. No, please. Just listen. Please listen. You know, I'm not yelling at you. I'm not screaming at you. >> I'm trying to help you. But >> when you don't say it and you keep sticking with this story that's not true, the courts are going to say you're as guilty as she is, and you're going to get a murder charge. We don't want to write that charge. I I I'm telling y'all it was that's the only thing I seen was the >> But that's my point though. You saw enough. But you cannot keep saying that he's the one that caused this cuz you watched her do it >> and then you're going to go to jail for murder. >> He did. He was not dead after she did that crutch cuz he was still saying >> we tried. We tried. >> I'm not lying. I swear to God. Y'all could give me a test. I could take a lie detector test. Antonio was not dead after she did the crutch. He was not dead. He was in the closet. Was beating him with the rock. He said he had choked him. He had before they even beat him with the sandball. Threw the sandball on his chest. He was kicking him in his neck in his head. All type of man. >> I know. Hey, we do appreciate it. However, Janna never fully reveals what happened inside that house. In the end, on the basis of evidence, both she and Landanda are charged with the murder of 8-year-old Martonio Wilder. Later, during trials, both women plead guilty to murder and gross abuse of a corpse. In separate hearings during the summer of 2025, they are each sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 15 years. Today, both remain behind bars. Thanks for watching. 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