Virginia authorities say a woman killed her teenage son and then drove around with his body in the trunk of her car for at least 10 years.
Court documents released earlier this week show Tonya Slaton, 44, has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of her son, Quincy Jamar Davis. Authorities believe Slaton killed her son sometime between July 24, 2004 and July 24, 2005 when he would have been either 14 or 15 years old.
According to the Virginian-Pilot, Davis was last seen in 2004 and never reported missing.
Slaton was arrested in June during a traffic stop when a Virginia State Trooper noticed ”a strong odor of rotting flesh” coming from the back of her Ford Mustang.
The Associated Press reports that Slaton had clothes in the trunk, and that would normally contain the bags housed in a spare tire with Davis’ remains.
No cause of death has been determined, but court records indicate she has a history of assault and battery, including a 1997 misdemeanor conviction after Davis was found with cuts and bruises when he was 6 years old.
While it may sound impossible for the odor from decomposed remains to still be present 10 years later, the Discovery Channel’s MythBusters confirmed it’s impossible to remove the smell of death from a car.
In what has been called their “most disgusting myth,” Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage bought an old Chevrolet Corvette and loaded it up with a few pigs that died of natural causes. They then put the car in a shipping container and let nature take its course.
“This was about whether a car that someone had died in and then left set to rot would be permanently infused with a stench that was not removable,” Hyneman said.
After a gag-inducing cleanup that involved tearing out much of the interior, they confirmed no amount of elbow grease could completely remove the horrific stench.
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