In October of 2022, Leilani Simon beat her 20-month-old son to death with an object. She then put her son's lifeless body into a dumpster about two miles from her home. She was high on drugs when the murder occurred, but states that she had only smoked marijuana. At first, Simon claimed that she put her son into his playpen, and he went missing. The little boy's remains were found in a landfill in November and identified by DNA.