Father, baby sought after mother found dead in refrigerator

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- There's new information in a very active investigation. Police have identified the mother who was found dead Monday, stuffed into the refrigerator of her apartment. She is Anastacia Oaikhena-Lambert, 27, and she was stabbed to death.

Her 11-month-old son, Achilles, is still missing. Houston Police say his father, Patrick Lambert, is a person of interest.

"The most important thing we don't know is the location of the child, the most frustrating is finding the child," said HPD homicide investigator Jason Robles.

On Tuesday, Eyewitness News learned that Houston police have visited the family before.

The couple moved into the complex in June. Houston police records show Anastacia called the police on September 2 to report being threatened with a knife. Another police call was made a day later, but no arrests were made either time.

Nicole Barns and her children live next door to Anastacia. However, she only moved in recently, most likely after Anastacia was already dead.

"I'm scared, because I've only been in this apartment a week," said Barns. "I have kids that live upstairs, you know, and to know that this is what my kids came home to last night, they were actually terrified."

"You have to be sick to do something like that, I mean, kill a person and put them in the refrigerator," said Michael Hamilton, who was at a nearby barber shop. The entire area surrounding the 10500 block of Fondren, where the body was found, is talking about the horrible crime.

"I haven't seen them in over 3 or 4 months," said neighbor Erica Malone. "It's been a while. I haven't heard anyone up there."

Investigators aren't sure how long Anastacia has been dead. They don't know where to start looking for the father. They say Patrick Lambert has been in the Northeast, in Florida, and has records as far away as Hawaii. What they do know is that a baby is missing, and a murderer is out there somewhere.

"She belongs to somebody," said Barns. "She's important to somebody. It may not be to the person who did it, but she's important to somebody."