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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Dad Admits "Missing" Infant Son Strangled & Dumped in River | Crime Alert 03.20.26

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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True Crime, News

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

An Oregon father allegedly admitted on Sunday to killing his 11-month-old son after falsely reporting him missing. The suspect in the murder of a 87-year-old Alaska man found dead in the woods not far away a day later. A 92-year-old millionaire developer was found dead and decomposing in a swanky beach home in California’s Hermosa Beach last week, and a suspect was arrested after a seven-hour standoff. A California woman and her boyfriend charged with 27 counts of torture and child abuse related to their treatment of the woman’s 11-year-old niece that included dragging her around on a dog leash. Sydney Sumner reports. 

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0:08.1

I'm Sidney Sumner.

0:09.5

An Oregon father allegedly admitted on Sunday to killing his 11-month-old son after falsely

0:14.6

reporting him missing.

0:16.2

Jared Stoller, 27, called Sutherland Police, claiming he woke up and his baby was missing from a room at the Relax Inn.

0:23.3

Stoller said his son had been sleeping in a car seat in the room, which had a window pushed in.

0:28.0

However, once at the police station, Stoller admitted to lying about the suspected kidnapping.

0:33.0

He then confessed to killing his infant son days earlier and dumping his body in the south Umpqua River.

0:39.1

While Stoller initially told police that his son died during co-sleeping, he later confessed

0:43.9

to manually strangling his son. Stoller also agreed to take police to the river where they eventually

0:49.5

located the infant's body. An autopsy is pending. Stoller is charged with first-degree murder and second-degree

0:55.6

abuse of a corpse. He's due in court later today. The suspect in the murder of an 87-year-old

1:01.4

Alaska man on Saturday was found dead in the woods, not far away, a day later. Matthew Thomas Becker,

1:07.7

61, was the ex-son-in-law of the man he killed, Romaine Clark.

1:12.4

Anchorage Police believe he gunned Clark down minutes after trying to kill his ex-wife

1:17.1

as she tried to open her Anchorage hair salon.

1:20.0

The ex-wife told police that Becker had been living in Arizona since they divorced,

1:24.2

and she was unaware he had come back to Alaska.

1:27.2

She told police she thought someone

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