{"id":14415,"date":"2021-08-03T14:45:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T18:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/?p=14415"},"modified":"2021-08-03T14:45:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T18:45:39","slug":"routine-traffic-stop-reveals-two-dead-children-ages-5-and-7-found-in-trunk-of-their-aunts-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/routine-traffic-stop-reveals-two-dead-children-ages-5-and-7-found-in-trunk-of-their-aunts-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Routine traffic stop reveals two dead children, ages 5 and 7, found in trunk of their aunt\u2019s car"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"379\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Larry-D-ONeil-lll-left-and-half-sister-Joshlyn-Marie-James-Johnson.jpg\" alt=\"Ace News Today - Routine traffic stop reveals two dead children, ages 5 and 7, found in trunk of their aunt\u2019s car\" class=\"wp-image-14416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Larry-D-ONeil-lll-left-and-half-sister-Joshlyn-Marie-James-Johnson.jpg 379w, https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Larry-D-ONeil-lll-left-and-half-sister-Joshlyn-Marie-James-Johnson-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 379px) 100vw, 379px\" \/><figcaption><em>Larry D. O’Neil lll <L> and Joshlyn Marie James Johnson <R>;\u00a0 Image credits: LaQuata M. Pitts O’Neil per <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/maryland\/dundalk\/aunt-arrested-after-siblings-found-dead-car-police\" target=\"_blank\">Patch.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0A macabre and horrific case out of Essex, Maryland began with a routine traffic stop on July 28 and ended with Baltimore County Police officers finding the deceased bodies of two young siblings, ages five and seven, in the trunk of that vehicle.\u00a0 Making the story even more horrific, if that’s even possible, those children were the niece and nephew of the woman driving the car \u2013 and at least one of the kids had been dead for more than a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Baltimore County Police, just after 11 p.m. on July 28, police officers in Essex conducted a traffic stop on Eastern Boulevard near Wagners Lane. As the traffic stop evolved, officers soon discovered that the operator of that vehicle, 33-year-old Nicole M. Johnson, who lived in the 3500 block of Elmora Avenue in Baltimore, was driving without a license and also had a fake automobile registration and a fake temporary tag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>When the officer issued a citation for Johnson to appear in court and told her that her car would have to be towed, Johnson supposedly told the officer,<em> “It don’t matter, I won’t be here in five days,” and “Y’all going to see me on the news making my big debut.”<\/em><\/p><p>As soon as the officer cleared out the trunk so the car could be towed, he smelled decomposition coming from plastic bags in the trunk, according to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/crime\/bs-md-co-cr-dead-children-in-car-essex-20210729-x4ri7uocmnbh3pzgcd3x3wkfky-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Baltimore Sun<\/a>. \u00a0One body was found in a suitcase, the other inside a plastic tote bag. When the officer found the first body, Johnson tried to run. ~ <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/maryland\/dundalk\/aunt-arrested-after-siblings-found-dead-car-police\" target=\"_blank\">Patch.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BREAKING?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BREAKING<\/a>: Baltimore County Police have charged 33-year-old Nicole M. Johnson in the deaths of her 7-year-old niece and 5-year-old nephew. Their bodies were found in her trunk during a traffic stop in Essex late Wednesday night. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q5oOtDjdVN\">https:\/\/t.co\/q5oOtDjdVN<\/a><\/p>— WJZ | CBS Baltimore (@wjz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wjz\/status\/1421123173857349643?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 30, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnson eventually told the officers that the two dead children in her trunk were her niece and nephew, seven-year-old Joshlyn Johnson and five-year-old Larry O\u2019Neil. Baltimore County Police arrested Johnson and charged her in connection with the deaths of her two family members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>The children are siblings. Johnson faces multiple charges including 1st degree child abuse that resulted in the death of a child under the age of 13.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/crime\/bs-md-cr-family-remembers-kids-found-dead-in-car-20210802-ofvuxat3qnfb7jam4fore7ekoy-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Baltimore Sun<\/a> reported that, following her arrest, Johnson confessed that in May 2020, she was staying at the Regal Inn in Rosedale, Maryland, where she hit her niece several times. After one of those blows, young Joshlyn went down, striking her head on the floor. After that, Johnson placed the little girl into a suitcase and placed the suitcase in the trunk of her car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>According to charging documents shared by the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/crime\/bs-md-cr-family-remembers-kids-found-dead-in-car-20210802-ofvuxat3qnfb7jam4fore7ekoy-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sun<\/a>, Larry told Johnson he was tired, laid down to sleep and never woke up. So she put his body in a tote that she put next to his sister’s body in the trunk.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Police say that Joshlyn died after being placed in her aunt\u2019s trunk back in May 2020 with her brother Larry apparently dying one year later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnson told police that in 2019, her sister Dachelle Johnson, asked her to care for her children because she could not. CBS News in Baltimore shared Dachelle Johnson telling the police that she tried getting in touch with her sister but that her sister would never return her calls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>The Baltimore Sun noted that Dachelle Johnson hadn’t been able to find her sister or her children until police notified her of their deaths.\u00a0 ~ per <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/baltimore.cbslocal.com\/2021\/07\/30\/nicole-johnson-aunt-charged-in-death-of-2-children-whose-bodies-were-found-during-essex-traffic-stop\/\" target=\"_blank\">CBS News<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnson is being held without bond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Source and Nicole M. Johnson Booking Photo: Baltimore County Police)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Officers at traffic stop discover 2 deceased children's bodies\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aEG_CT9wqqc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Posted by Richard Webster, Ace News Today \/ Follow Richard on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/richard.webster.31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rdwebster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2 young siblings had been dead in the trunk of their aunt\u2019s car for months and months<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3537,18,66,77,2124,771,3079,52,4950,217,11,6678,4481],"tags":[8551,131,1421,260,1821,8549,8548,126,8550,1991],"class_list":["post-14415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-child-safety","category-crime-courts","category-crimes-against-children","category-domestic-violence","category-local","category-murder","category-police","category-public-health-and-safety","category-rest-in-peace","category-strange-news","category-top-news","category-video","category-violent-crimes","tag-bad-aunt","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-county","tag-child-abuse","tag-essex","tag-joshlyn-johnson","tag-larry-oneil","tag-maryland","tag-nicole-m-johnson","tag-rosedale","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14418,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14415\/revisions\/14418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}