The remains of a one-year-old girl, presumed to be Oaklee Mae Snow from Oklahoma, have been found in a drawer in an abandoned house, approximately 30 miles from where she was last seen.
Court documents reveal that the girl’s mother, 22-year-old Madison Marshall, accused her boyfriend, 25-year-old Roan Waters, of killing the child and hiding her body in a drawer in the empty Indiana house.
The discovered remains, thought to be of a blonde-haired girl, were severely decomposed, with the medical examiner working on identification.
A witness saw the parents leaving an Indianapolis drug house with “what looked like a child wrapped in a blanket,” court documents say. The witness said the child appeared lifeless.
Both Marshall and Waters were arrested last month, resulting in increased charges against Marshall, who now faces two counts of neglect of a dependent causing death and serious injury. Waters, initially arrested for unrelated charges, now faces one count of murder and two counts of neglect leading to death, among other offenses.
Investigators have revised their earlier assessments, now believing that the girl was killed a month before her second birthday. Authorities state that Oaklee Mae Snow was last seen on February 9 when her mother took her lifeless body from a residence in Indianapolis, referred to as a “crack house.”
According to investigators, Marshall abducted Oaklee and her seven-month-old brother, Coleton, from their father’s home in Cromwell, Oklahoma, in mid-January. Marshall and Waters brought the children to Indianapolis, where Waters’ family resides. Coleton was abandoned in the Indianapolis house but was eventually reunited with his father after authorities were informed.
Marshall was arrested in Harnett County, North Carolina, and extradited to Marion County, Indiana. The girl’s body was discovered last week when Marshall led investigators to the abandoned Morgantown house.
Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears stated that the allegations paint a harrowing picture of the child’s death and abandonment, denying her the dignity she deserved.
