An Ohio couple has been arrested and charged in the murder of their 8-year-old son. The child, Adam, died six years ago from blunt force trauma to the head.
Now John Snyder II and wife Katherine Snyder, Adam's adoptive parents, have been taken into custody in New York. They're to be extradited back to Hamilton County in Ohio.
The couple shared five other children, four of whom are adopted. They all showed signs of abuse and serious malnourishment.
According to court documents, the parents did not feed Adam for more than a month before he died. His death was ruled a homicide due to blunt force trauma to the head. They fought the court, pressing that he died due to sepsis, not head trauma. They even hired experts who testified that to be the case. They weren't successful in proving their case. Though no charges were filed at the time, their children were all taken from their custody.
The parents were arrested with the help the United States Marshals Service, which had a fugitive warrant for felony murder from Ohio's Springfield Police Department. They had reportedly been fighting for the custody of all their children for six years.
Their only biological daughter, Allison, told WCPO that her parents were "blindsided" by their arrest, which took place during a court-supervised visit with their other children.
It's unclear why the parents are being arrested six years after the death of their son. But it seems likely that new information had come to light in the case, given that no charges had been filed until now.
