Crocker child murders

Elwyn Crocker Jr. and Mary Crocker were two American children whose remains were discovered buried in their family's backyard in Effingham County, Georgia in December 2018.

Elwyn Jr. disappeared in November 2016 at age 14, while his younger sister, Mary, disappeared in October 2018 at age 13. Their father, Elwyn Crocker Sr., and their stepmother, Candice Crocker, had withdrawn each child from classes at South Effingham Middle School, claiming to school officials that both siblings would be homeschooled. Neither child was ever reported to be missing, and their disappearances were only discovered after the local police department received a tip from a family relative who believed that Mary was deceased. After police officers interviewed the children's father, they searched the grounds of the family's residence in Guyton, Georgia, a small city northwest of Savannah. Human remains were discovered on the property on December 20, 2018, the date of Mary Crocker's 14th birthday.

In late October 2020, the children's stepmother pleaded guilty to murder, torture, sexual battery, and keeping both Elwyn Jr. and Mary in dog crates. In order to escape Georgia's death penalty, she agreed to testify in court against her husband, her mother, and her brother, all of whom lived in the family home. She will serve a term of life imprisonment without parole. Provided by Wikipedia