Julissa Thaler, 28, was arrested with the body of her 6-year-old son in her car trunk.

[mdcastle]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...GG4mDr8SJg3o6E

A 6-year-old boy was found dead in the trunk of his mother's car in Minnesota, less than two weeks after she was awarded full custody of the child... Orono police said the woman and a man were arrested on suspicion of murder after the boy's body was found Friday following a report of a car with a smashed back window driving on a rim.
When officers stopped the car in Mound, Minnesota, they noticed blood inside the vehicle. Investigators later found further evidence of foul play at a nearby gas station that the car had stopped at.

Moms Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LissaBaller

Dad's Facebook with pictures of the kid: https://www.facebook.com/tory.hart.79

[Boston Babe 73]

FUCK, Man. He obviously WORSHIPPED that child. Why the fuck would they award custody to her! Not ONE photo of him and all self absorbed!

That poor Father. I can't imagine the hurt that he's going through. FFS. The boy was in a stable and wonderful place where he was loved and he was ripped away and murdered.

[of_corpse_not]

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/...9-bb7dc74685ff

She shot him 9 times with a SHOTGUN. Jesus christ ?

[Nic B]

I just can't even think of the why....was she trying to get back at her ex/the father??

[Bewitchingstorm]

That poor baby boy.

[jennafyre]

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.cbsn...body-in-trunk/

Can't post article from my phone but this one says when she was stopped by police who found blood on her and in her car, she told them it was period blood and from a dead deer. So naturally...the police just drove her home! Wtf?

Also searching for her bf at the time who was released although he was with her in the car.

[Nic B]

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.cbsn...body-in-trunk/

Can't post article from my phone but this one says when she was stopped by police who found blood on her and in her car, she told them it was period blood and from a dead deer. So naturally...the police just drove her home! Wtf?

Also searching for her bf at the time who was released although he was with her in the car.

Smart move on her part. Any time a female mentions a period to a dude, the convo stops right there.

[mdcastle]

Convicted of First Degree Murder today.

After deliberating less than two hours, a Hennepin County jury convicted a woman of first-degree murder for shooting her 6-year-old son nine times inside her car and hiding his body in the trunk, where it was later discovered by Orono police during a traffic stop. Jurors received the case Wednesday afternoon after four days of testimony in the trial of Julissa Thaler for the killing of Eli Hart on May 20, 2022. Prosecutors said Thaler, 29, six times pulled the trigger of a shotgun she bought three days earlier, reloaded it , and fired three more times. When the clerk for District Judge Jay Quam read out the guilty verdicts, Thaler made no visible reaction while Hart's family audibly wept. Quam will sentence Thaler on Feb. 16. The conviction carries an automatic life [without parole] sentence.

https://www.startribune.com/jury-del...son/600250108/

[of_corpse_not]

Minnesota woman convicted of killing her 6-year-old son just days after regaining full custody of him

A Minnesota woman who asked a store clerk for ammunition that would "blow the biggest hole" was found guilty Wednesday of fatally shooting her 6-year-old son just 10 days after regaining full custody of him, in a case that raised questions about the conduct of child welfare workers.

Jurors in Hennepin County District Court deliberated for less than two hours before finding Julissa Thaler, a 29-year-old Spring Park woman with a history of mental illness and drug abuse, guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Eli Hart.

Court officials told CBS Minnesota that due to the gravity of the case, jurors were offered crisis counselors.

The charge carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison. Sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 16.

Investigators said Eli was shot inside his mother's car in a parking lot at Lake Minnetonka Regional Park in Minnetrista. Police found the body in the trunk May 20 after pulling her over for a traffic violation.

During closing arguments, defense lawyer Bryan Leary said she participated in the boy's death but was not the one who shot him. He said no eyewitnesses, photos or videos connected her to the killing, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.

"She's not charged with the crime they have proved," Leary said. "She destroyed evidence, lied to police, ran away, but they have not proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the gun was in her hands when it was fired nine times into her son."

Thaler did not testify, and her defense called no witnesses.

Assistant Hennepin County Attorney Dan Allard said overwhelming evidence, including cellphone data linking her to all the sites involved in the death, showed Thaler killed her son, either for life insurance money, because of her mental health or after the stress of a custody battle with the boy's father.

He noted that the boy's DNA was found in Thaler's hair and on her skin and clothes. If if she didn't shoot him, Allard said, why didn't she tell police when pulled over, "Oh my God, someone shot my son - he's in the trunk!"

Her ex-boyfriend, Tory Hart, a bait and tackle shop manager from Chetek, Wisconsin, has filed a lawsuit alleging that child welfare workers ignored warning signs before his son's death. He had filed a petition seeking custody shortly before the killing and at trial told jurors his son was "everything to me."

Hart's lawsuit and other documents obtained by the Star Tribune spell out a string of issues.

Among other things, police responded to Thaler's Farmington home 21 times in 10 months, she was arrested for stealing drugs from a health clinic and had to find a new drug-testing facility because of "bizarre behavior."

Thaler lost custody of Eli twice, first in October 2020 and then for most of 2021.

Robert Pikkarainen, another ex-boyfriend of Thaler, testified at trial that she and Eli had an argument the night before he died because he didn't want to go to bed.

She left the apartment and put a recently purchased shotgun in the car, grabbed her son and went downstairs, he said.

Pikkarainen, who was not charged, said he fell asleep and asked where she had gone when he woke up the next morning.

"She was kind of like, 'I had to go do something,'" Pikkarainen said.

Later that day Thaler was stopped while driving with one tire completely gone, the rim scraping the road and the back windshield blown out.

Officers escorted her home before they continued searching her vehicle. Eli's body was in the trunk wrapped in a blanket.

A judge determined that Thaler was mentally competent to stand trial and can assist with her own defense. She was offered a plea deal soon after, but rejected the offer to plead guilty to the second-degree murder charge and serve 40 years in prison. In Minnesota, it's a formality that if you're found guilty of first-degree murder, you spend the rest of your life in prison without parole.

CBS Minnesota reported that Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty released a statement soon after the verdict was announced, saying in part: "Eli's brutal murder is one of the most horrific cases I have encountered in 30 years working in the criminal legal system. Nothing will ever fill the emptiness Eli's father and other loved ones now live with every day, but I'm hopeful this verdict will make it just a bit easier to remember Eli as the toothless, happy, smiling little boy we have seen in photos."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/julissa...art-minnesota/

[Boston Babe 73]

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/...9-bb7dc74685ff

She shot him 9 times with a SHOTGUN. Jesus christ ?

There couldn't have been anything left of him after that.

WHY. JUST FUCKING WHY.

[of_corpse_not]

This biiitttch omg here?s a tik tok of her in court
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRtvJDgV/

For anyone who can?t watch it when the judge asks her if she would like to say anything she says ?fuck you all you?re all garbage?

And while the judge is telling her what her sentencing is she says with attitude ?I can?t hear you over your stomach growling?

Absolutely no remorse and acting like she?s the class clown in high school.

[Boston Babe 73]

Here is the video of when the cops discovered Eli's body:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRo6MbE6/

[of_corpse_not]

Here is the video of when the cops discovered Eli's body:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRo6MbE6/

Omg this bitch is just as evil as Lori vallow if not worse

[Boston Babe 73]

Omg this bitch is just as evil as Lori vallow if not worse

AGREED

She's fucking diabolical.

Hey there! CPS. FUCK. YOU.

I work somewhat related to this system in Ireland and get to see the differences in the systems.

It isn't that difficult to do it right if a government that CLAIMS to give a fucking shit about children actually DOES.

[raisedbywolves]

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/1...wsuit-eli-hart

Dakota County has approved a payment of more than $2 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a 6-year-old boy.

Eli Hart was fatally shot in May 2022 by his mother, Julissa Thaler, who was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder and is now serving a life sentence.

The boy’s father, Tory Hart, filed a lawsuit against the county, accusing it of negligence. The lawsuit claimed that county social workers pushed to move Eli from foster care to his mother’s custody, despite concerns about her mental health and substance abuse.

“Defendants knew or should have known that Eli would not be safe in Thaler’s care but endorsed giving her sole custody over Eli in bad faith and in total failure to exercise due care,” the lawsuit claimed.

The terms of the settlement call for the county to pay $2.25 million, of which about $1.3 million will go to the boy’s father and other family members. The rest will go toward attorneys’ fees.

[Boston Babe 73]

GOOD! JFC I still don't know what the fuck they were thinking.

[pinkhair4me]

I really hope the family uses some of that million, and pays another inmate to make Julissa’s life extremely uncomfortable.

Hey, a girl can dream right?