Social workers began looking for the toddler in July 2008, when ManyWhiteHorses was arrested and charged with drunken driving after she crashed her car. The vehicle was towed, but police did not search the trunk, and ManyWhiteHorses didn't retrieve the car even after she got out of jail and was free to do so, authorities said.
Welfare officials filed a missing person's report Sept. 4. The next day, police contacted ManyWhiteHorses, who told them her son's remains were in the trunk.
Autopsy results showed the boy suffered a fracture to the head and other injuries.
ManyWhiteHorses told detectives that her son fell from a high chair on the night of May 28 while she was watching television in another room. She said she thought her son was alive after the fall and laid him down next to her on the couch. But the next morning he wasn't breathing.
She said she eventually wrapped her son's body in a blanket and placed it in her car trunk.
Prosecutors said ManyWhiteHorses drove around the state with her 11-year-old daughter for nearly two months, paying for food, gas, hotel rooms and alcohol with government checks meant to help take care of the boy, who was autistic.
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