Prosecutors subpoena dentist’s office to obtain records of Leilani Simon accused of murdering her son

Prosecutors subpoenaed a local dentist’s office to obtain Leilani Simon’s records after she was accused of murdering her son Quinton and then dumping his body in the trash.

The state of Georgia has subpoenaed Savannah Aspen Dental to obtain 22-year-old Simon’s dental records for any treatment he received between October 1 and October 5.

Her one-year-old son Simon was reported missing by his mother on October 5 and his remains were found at the Chatham County landfill more than a month later.

Simon was allegedly high on drugs when he used an unidentified object to hit his son, causing “grave bodily injury” and leading to his death, prosecutors revealed in December. According to reports, he met with his drug dealer just before the murder.

In addition to the dental records, prosecutors also subpoenaed the alleged killer’s mother, Billie Jo Howell, as they seek Simon’s journals or similar writings. fox 28 savannah informed.

Both Aspen Dental and Howell were due to appear in Chatham County Superior Court on February 13 for a status check.

Simon previously told police his son was kidnapped by an intruder who broke into his Savannah home. Leilani was arrested in November, but investigators have not released the details that led to her arrest.

Leilani was indicted on 19 counts and faces charges including malicious murder, felony murder, concealment of death and making false statements to police about Quinton’s death.

Leilani reported her son missing from her home on Oct. 5, but the Chatham County Sheriff believed she was the suspect since the beginning of the investigation, according to foxnews.

A Chatham County grand jury returned the indictment against Leilani in December after discovering Quinton’s missing body in a Georgia landfill on November 18, three days after Leilani’s arrest.

It says that Leilani ‘maliciously caused her son, Quinton Simon, a human being and a child under the age of 18, cruel and excessive physical pain… and the defendant, in the commission of this crime, caused Quinton’s death, ‘ WJLC reports.

The indictment revealed that Leilani left her Buckhaulter home on October 4 to meet her drug dealer and left the next morning on October 5 to dispose of her body.

Quinton was last seen alive on October 5 by Leliani’s boyfriend, Daniel Youngkin, who saw him at a pack-n-play at 6 a.m.

Three hours later, Leilani reported that Quinton was missing from her home. She claimed to have woken up at 9:30 am and found the door of the house open and her son was not there.

“These are the cases that keep us up at night, these are the cases that need justice,” District Attorney Shalena Cook Jones said at a December news conference.

“We have the evidence to bring these charges thanks to the hard work of the investigators, agents and rangers who worked on this case.”

He added that the criminal investigation is ongoing and he will not reveal what evidence police found that led to Leilani’s arrest.

Leilani was seen with Billie Jo Betterton Howell, her mother, at Sting Ray’s, a beach bar near Tybee Island, drinking tequila about two weeks after Quinton’s disappearance.

DailyMail.com revealed that the two were in the bar drinking Patron shots for three hours.

Before her arrest and after weeks of media scrutiny, Leilani had checked herself into a treatment center, according to a report.

When she informed her mother that she planned to withdraw from the show, it was Howell who made the decision to inform the FBI about her daughter’s next move.

“His mother had to make one of the most difficult decisions of her life, calling FBI agents and letting them know she was going to be discharged,” said a family friend who has stayed with Howell since Quinton’s disappearance. .

The friend said that Howell, at the FBI’s request, retrieved Leilani from the treatment center and spent the latter’s last few hours off with her.

She then took her daughter to the FBI office in Savannah, where she was ultimately arrested and charged with her son’s murder.

Before Quinton died, Leilani had lost custody of Quinton’s children for an unknown reason.

Quinton was in Howell’s custody before she went missing, but she was out of town when she went missing.

Howell was also arrested in December on contempt of court charges unrelated to Quinton’s case and is now on suicide prevention watch at the Chatham County Detention Center after she claimed she “lost everything.”

Leilani’s two other children were removed from her custody a week after Quinton was reported missing.