Left: Anna Louise Englund and Miles Basellio (Facebook). Right: Miles Basellio (KUSA)
A 31-year-old woman in Colorado will spend several decades behind bars for killing her 2-month-old son, strangling the infant to death while in the throes of postpartum psychosis.
Boulder County District Court Judge Thomas Mulvahill on Wednesday ordered Anna Louise Englund to serve a sentence of 40 years in a state correctional facility for the 2023 slaying of young Miles Basellio, authorities confirmed to Law&Crime.
Englund had initially been charged with first-degree murder and first-degree murder of a victim under the age of 12 by someone in a position of trust, which carry mandatory minimum sentences of life in prison with the chance for parole. However, she reached a deal with prosecutors in the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office and agreed to plea to a lesser charge of second-degree murder while the more serious charges were dismissed.
The court credited Englund, who has remained in detention since her arrest in June 2023, with 423 days of time already served.