Woman Charged With Capital Murder in Texas Boy’s Death

Woman Charged With Capital Murder in Texas Boy’s Death
Samuel Olson. The Gonzalez Law Group via AP
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HOUSTON—Prosecutors on Thursday charged a woman with capital murder in the death of a 5-year-old Houston boy she had been caring for and whose body was allegedly kept in a storage unit before being discovered in an East Texas motel.

Theresa Balboa, 29, previously was arrested and charged with tampering with evidence, a human corpse, in the death of Samuel Olson, whose father Balboa was dating.