Parents starve toddler son to death, leave body in toy chest

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 15 May 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Raquel and Martiin Barreras are accused of isolating, abusing, and starving their 3-year-old son Roman. When the parents moved out of their home, a clean up crew made a gruesome discovery in an old toy chest. Nancy's Expert Panel Weighs In: Dr. William Morrone: Deputy Medical Examiner in Bay County Michigan Kenya Johnson: Atlanta prosecutor Joseph Scott Morgan: Forensics expert, and author of “Blood Beneath My Feet” Dr. Caryn Stark: Psychologist John Lemley: Crimeonline.com Investigative Reporter

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0:00.0	The remains of a three-year-old child stuffed in a toy box.
0:07.0	The remains were found in a blue, apparently toy chest.
0:12.0	That's when I saw them looking at this.
0:16.0	I don't know.
0:17.0	I believe it was like a toy box.
0:19.0	I don't know.
0:20.0	It was in that big box.
0:21.0	I don't know.
0:22.0	I don't know.
0:23.0	I don't know.
0:24.0	I don't know.
0:25.0	I don't know.
0:26.0	I don't know.
0:27.0	I don't know.
0:28.0	I don't know.
0:29.0	It was in that big.
0:30.0	The parents of that toddler are now under arrest.
0:34.0	39-year-old Raquel Bareras and 45-year-old Martín Bareras.
0:39.0	Police say three-year-old Ramón Bareras was forced to live in a structure that was attached
0:42.8	to the outside of the home when he was alive.
0:45.7	That blue toy chest where the landlord found his remains, that was inside that structure.
0:50.6	Now Ramón's mother, Raquel Bareras, is charged with first-degree murder.
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