CALEB WHISNAND JR.: 1-month-old murdered by father in Alabama - 10 May 2021 *GUILTY PLEA*

Caleb Whisnand Jr. was last seen about 10:45 p.m. Monday at the Circle K on Wetumpka Highway in Montgomery County. No other details surrounding the circumstances of Caleb’s disappearance are being released at this time, authorities said.

ALEA early Tuesday issued an Emergency Missing Child Alert, but not an Amber Alert.

Search underway for missing 1 month old in Montgomery County

Caleb Whisnand Jr. was last seen about 10:45 p.m. Monday at the Circle K on Wetumpka Highway in Montgomery County. No other details surrounding the circumstances of Caleb’s disappearance are being released at this time, authorities said.

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[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Judge in Case of Father Accused of Killing Infant Son Recuses Herself - WAKA 8

Alabama News Network has learned of new developments in the case against Caleb Whisnand, Sr. He's the father accused of killing his 5-week-old son, whose body was found in Lowndes County last week.

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Judge in Case of Father Accused of Killing Infant Son Recuses Herself​

Alabama News Network has learned of new developments in the case against Caleb Whisnand, Sr. He’s the father accused of killing his 5-week-old son, whose body was found in Lowndes County last week.

Montgomery County District Judge Pamela Higgins has recused herself from hearing the case.

She cites “personal reasons from hearing or deciding any and all matters to be adjudged in this action.”

District Judge Tiffany McCord has now been assigned to the case.

Whisnand is charged with capital murder.. and is being held without bond. Investigators say his son Caleb Whisnand, Jr. died in Montgomery County of blunt force trauma to the head. Previously, the father said his son was missing, prompting a search involving dozens of law enforcement officers that had lasted for days.

 

[kdg411]

Judge in Case of Father Accused of Killing Infant Son Recuses Herself - WAKA 8

Alabama News Network has learned of new developments in the case against Caleb Whisnand, Sr. He's the father accused of killing his 5-week-old son, whose body was found in Lowndes County last week.

www.alabamanews.net

Judge in Case of Father Accused of Killing Infant Son Recuses Herself​

Alabama News Network has learned of new developments in the case against Caleb Whisnand, Sr. He’s the father accused of killing his 5-week-old son, whose body was found in Lowndes County last week.

Montgomery County District Judge Pamela Higgins has recused herself from hearing the case.

She cites “personal reasons from hearing or deciding any and all matters to be adjudged in this action.”

District Judge Tiffany McCord has now been assigned to the case.

Whisnand is charged with capital murder.. and is being held without bond. Investigators say his son Caleb Whisnand, Jr. died in Montgomery County of blunt force trauma to the head. Previously, the father said his son was missing, prompting a search involving dozens of law enforcement officers that had lasted for days.

Wasn't she the Judge who released Ibraheem Yazeed who killed Aniah Blanchard?

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Judge Issues Gag Order in Capital Murder Case for Man Accused of Killing 5-Week-Old Infant - WAKA 8

A man accused of killing his five week old baby made his first appearance in front of a judge Friday. Caleb Whisnand, Sr. is charged with Capital Murder in the death of 5 week old Caleb Whisnand, Jr.

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Whisnand, Sr. had his preliminary hear Friday morning. Judge Tiffany B. McCord is the judge case. She issued a gag order in the case meaning cameras won’t be allowed in the courtroom.

Judge McCord ruled that there was enough probable cause to send the case to the Grand Jury.

Caleb Whisnand led police to murdered 5-week-old son, told baby’s mother, ‘I’m sorry,’ detective says

An investigator testified Whisnand then “looked at me and asked me to shoot him.”

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The Montgomery County man accused of killing his infant son led investigators to the shallow grave where authorities say he buried the 5-week-old after killing him by blunt force trauma.

According to that testimony, the baby’s mother, Angela Gardener, was also at the site with police. Whisnand ran to her, hugged her and said, “I’m sorry.”

“He said it was an accident, he had hit his head,” Montgomery County Sheriff’s Investigator John Shepherd testified at a preliminary hearing held before District Judge Tiffany McCord.

A short time later, Shepherd said, Whisnand “looked at me and asked me to shoot him.”



When C.J.’s body was found, Shepherd said, there were no obvious signs of foul play. Once the dirt was washed away at the medical examiner’s office, he said, there were some visible injuries.

Forensic pathologist Dr. David Rydzewski of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences testified that C.J. had a complex skull fracture to the right side of his head that was 1 ¾ to 2-inches long. He said the child also had bleeding over the entire surface of his skull, as well as subdural hemorrhaging.

There was damage to his optic nerves and a broken right tibia.

He said the only way C.J.’s death could be an accident is if the child had been in a severe car accident and he was unrestrained or he “fell from a fifth floor.” He said the death could not have occurred from an “every day accident.”

“This is an acute injury and the child died within minutes (of the injury),” Rydzewski testified.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

This dropped out of the MSM and I figured we'd never hear an update. But after 4 years...

Montgomery DA reacts after father pleads guilty to newborn’s capital murder

The case against a Montgomery area father who was accused of killing his 1-month-old son in 2021 has come to an end with his agreement to plead guilty to capital murder, according to court documents.

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Montgomery DA reacts after father pleads guilty to newborn’s capital murder​

The case against a Montgomery area father who was accused of killing his 1-month-old son in May of 2021 has come to an end with his agreement to plead guilty to capital murder, according to court documents.

Caleb Whisnand Sr., entered a guilty plea on July 29 and was sentenced the next day to life in prison without the possibility of parole.


In court documents regarding Whisnand’s plea agreement and sentencing, his counsel stated that he and his siblings grew up in an abusive home and stated that it was “a contributing factor” when, as a young adult, he suffered a severe head injury in a work site accident that led to drug use.

The counselors stated that Whisnand’s rehabilitation “led to a long history of self medication,” which then led to drug use including “meth, heroin, cocaine, crack cocaine, and marijuana.”

“When the incident occurred where the victim, Caleb Whisnand, Jr. was injured, Caleb Sr. took the child and fled for a period of days, sleep deprived, and reason clouded by consumption of Heroin, Cocaine and Marijuana, at some point in time during the journey, the minor child died. In a panic Caleb Sr. took the child to an isolate location in Lowndes County and buried the child. Judgement clouded by drugs led Mr. Whisnand Sr. to contact Law Enforcement and concoct a story of the child’s kidnapping. Days later when confronted with inconsistencies in the events surrounding the kidnapping, Caleb Sr. took Law enforcement to the child’s body.”
Excerpt from Caleb Whisnand sentencing memorandum

Whisnand’s counsel stated in the filings that he agreed to the plea deal in order to spare his family from the “devastation” of sitting through a trial involving the details of Caleb Whisnand Jr.’s, death, and to avoid “the possibility of the family losing another son, this one to the death penalty.”

 

[GrandmaBear]

All good I guess. I don't find his life any excuse other than maybe he should now turn it around ni prison if he means a word of it or has any remorse at all.