A New Hampshire mom charged in her 5-year-old son’s disappearance allegedly known as him “the following Ted Bundy” and stated “I would like him gone” simply months earlier than his stays have been discovered.

Danielle Dauphinais, 35, had complained about her son, Elijah Lewis, in a sequence of Snapchat messages she despatched a childhood buddy again in June, in accordance the Boston Globe.

“I name him the following Ted Bundy and Jeffery Dahmer,” Dauphinais allegedly wrote to her buddy Erika Wolfe. “It’s so unhappy however I’ve no reference to this youngster.”

“He’s been getting worse and worse,” the mother stated in one other message.

She added that she was protecting the boy in his room as a result of she couldn’t “belief him anymore” after complaining that Elijah was taking part in in his personal feces and urinating on garments and beds.

“I would like him gone. I can’t deal with it anymore,” Dauphinais allegedly wrote.

Dauphinais hadn’t spoken to her childhood buddy in years earlier than she abruptly replied to considered one of Wolfe’s Snapchat posts during which Wolfe spoke of her personal teenage son’s behavioral points.

Within the trade, Dauphinais stated the New Hampshire youngster welfare company was concerned however didn’t elaborate additional.

Elijah had been despatched by his father to stay with Dauphinais, who has six kids, in Might final yr, but it surely wasn’t instantly clear why.

Wolfe informed the Globe she forgot about her trade with Dauphinais till she noticed that police have been on the lookout for Elijah final month.

The little boy’s stays have been present in a wooded space in Abington, Massachusetts, late final month following a 10-day police-led search throughout 5 completely different states.

Authorities began investigating on Oct. 14 once they have been made conscious of Elijah’s disappearance. The little boy hadn’t been reported lacking previous to that date, and it stays unclear how they discovered he’d vanished.

It additionally isn’t clear when Elijah vanished.

His mom and her boyfriend, Joseph Stapf, 30, have been arrested in New York Metropolis on Oct. 18 for witness tampering and youngster endangerment.

Authorities stated the couple allegedly requested others to lie about Elijah and the place he was residing as a result of they knew youngster safety service staff have been looking for him.

No costs have been filed in relation to Elijah’s loss of life as a result of authorities say they’re ready for the outcomes of the boy’s post-mortem.