Mom, 75, charged 55 years later with killing baby after she claimed he fatally fell from crib

Source: New York Post

A Louisiana mother has been charged with murdering her baby nearly 55 years after claiming he fell out of his crib — as authorities uncovered old hateful letters detailing how she wished he was dead. Alice Rollinson Bunch Idlett, now 75, was arrested Thursday and charged with second-degree murder in the 1970 death of her 16-month-old baby, Earl Dwayne Bunch III, KPLC-TV reported. At the time, the then-20-year-old mom claimed that her son fractured his skull falling from his crib — but a cold-case investigation launched in 2022 ruled it a homicide.