‘Screams were piercing his ears’: 4-month-old found dead in hotel drawer after parents put her inside to sleep, mom was ‘laughing’ when confronted about it, cops say

A mother and father in Texas are facing murder charges after their 4-month-old daughter was found dead inside a hotel drawer, with cops saying she was allegedly placed inside to sleep — with a towel stuffed “around the edges” to prevent her from “kicking the drawer open” — due to the baby’s “piercing” screams.

Destiny Campos, 21, and Jeremy Fancher, 38, were allegedly staying at a Days Inn & Suites in the 7100 block of Rancho Mission Drive in the Mission Bend area of Harris County when first responders were called on May 26, 2024, to try and save Brookelynn Fancher. The infant was found unresponsive inside a drawer in the parents’ room, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.

The criminal complaint outlines how a housekeeper had stumbled upon the child multiple times in the past, with Campos and Fancher allegedly “laughing” off complaints from the worker…

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