05-19-2011, 10:33 AM
WMUR
CONCORD, N.H.
A 6-year-old boy who was found dead on the side of a remote road in Maine was killed in New Hampshire the same day he was found, the New Hampshire attorney general's office said.
An arrest warrant has been issued for Camden Hughes' mother, Julianne McCrery, 42, of Irving, Texas, on a second-degree murder charge.
McCrery was in court in Massachusetts on Thursday morning on a fugitive from justice charge before facing the murder charge in New Hampshire.
McCrery's attorney, George Murphy, said he didn't know if McCrery was competent to stand trial, but he said he believes she is "aware."
"I want to be in heaven with my son," Murphy said McCrery told him. "She kept saying it over and over again that, 'I just want to die. I don't want to live.'"
"Last night I was just concerned with her. She just wanted to die," he said.
Murphy said McCrery told him she wished she was charged with first-degree murder, "So I can get the death penalty."
Murphy said he believes she will waive extradition and go back to New Hampshire for arraignment Thursday afternoon.
ABC News reported that McCrery had confessed to the killing and said she accidentally gave the boy too much cough syrup.
Hughes' body was found in a wooded area in South Berwick, Maine, on May 14. It took police four days to officially identify the boy and make an arrest.
New Hampshire State Police spent Wednesday at the Stone Gable Inn, but it's not clear what they were looking for.
The parking lot to the inn was taped off while agents conducted their search. The attorney general's office did not confirm whether the search was in relation to Camden's death.
Local motel owners in the area said detectives were asking them about the case earlier in the day.
"It was really upsetting to find out there was a little boy that he could have died here. You never know,” Hampton resident Larry Regan said.
Regan said he has lived at the motel for the past two months and that most of the people staying there have been long-term residents.
He said that's why he took notice when he saw McCrery check in. Regan said she only stayed for one night.
"She was irate. She was angry and very disheveled. Her hair was all messed up and things like that," Regan said.
He said he never saw Camden but heard McCrery yelling at him as he passed by her room last week.
"(She was) just yelling. Typical screaming of a parent that was irate," Regan said.
CONCORD, N.H.
A 6-year-old boy who was found dead on the side of a remote road in Maine was killed in New Hampshire the same day he was found, the New Hampshire attorney general's office said.
An arrest warrant has been issued for Camden Hughes' mother, Julianne McCrery, 42, of Irving, Texas, on a second-degree murder charge.
McCrery was in court in Massachusetts on Thursday morning on a fugitive from justice charge before facing the murder charge in New Hampshire.
McCrery's attorney, George Murphy, said he didn't know if McCrery was competent to stand trial, but he said he believes she is "aware."
"I want to be in heaven with my son," Murphy said McCrery told him. "She kept saying it over and over again that, 'I just want to die. I don't want to live.'"
"Last night I was just concerned with her. She just wanted to die," he said.
Murphy said McCrery told him she wished she was charged with first-degree murder, "So I can get the death penalty."
Murphy said he believes she will waive extradition and go back to New Hampshire for arraignment Thursday afternoon.
ABC News reported that McCrery had confessed to the killing and said she accidentally gave the boy too much cough syrup.
Hughes' body was found in a wooded area in South Berwick, Maine, on May 14. It took police four days to officially identify the boy and make an arrest.
New Hampshire State Police spent Wednesday at the Stone Gable Inn, but it's not clear what they were looking for.
The parking lot to the inn was taped off while agents conducted their search. The attorney general's office did not confirm whether the search was in relation to Camden's death.
Local motel owners in the area said detectives were asking them about the case earlier in the day.
"It was really upsetting to find out there was a little boy that he could have died here. You never know,” Hampton resident Larry Regan said.
Regan said he has lived at the motel for the past two months and that most of the people staying there have been long-term residents.
He said that's why he took notice when he saw McCrery check in. Regan said she only stayed for one night.
"She was irate. She was angry and very disheveled. Her hair was all messed up and things like that," Regan said.
He said he never saw Camden but heard McCrery yelling at him as he passed by her room last week.
"(She was) just yelling. Typical screaming of a parent that was irate," Regan said.