The woman taken into custody earlier today in connection with the disappearance and apparent murder of 12-year-old Jonathan Foster had been formally arrested on capital murder charges.
Houston Police have identified the woman as 44-year-old Mona Yvette Nelson.
Nelson has been described as a “family acquaintance” of Foster’s mother, Angela Davis, and stepfather David Davis.
Angela Davis said she had met the woman “only once.”
While the police investigation initially appeared to focus on the Davises, a surveillance camera located on a building across the street from where Foster’s burned body was dumped ultimately led detectives to Nelson.
The badly-burned body was found dumped in a ditch near the Hardy Toll Road Tuesday morning. Images from a surveillance camera at the Rolled Alloys facility across the street from where the body was found led detectives to Nelson.
Although no official identification of the body has yet been announced by the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences, the capital murder charge indicates authorities are certain the body is that of Foster.
Investigators earlier said a lack burn marks on grass around where the body was found indicated it was burned elsewhere and dumped into the ditch.
The Dunham Elementary fifth-grader disappeared from his mother’s apartment last Friday afternoon.
After a weekend of attempting to reconcile apparently conflicting statements from the Davises, Houston Police issued an Amber Alert for Foster late Monday, triggering an intensive search for the boy.
Police have released no motive in the case.
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