Idaho Woman Charged With Murder After Infant Dies From Meth Overdose

Epoch Newsroom
2/22/2016
Updated:
2/23/2016

Salmon, Idaho (Google Maps)
Salmon, Idaho (Google Maps)

“My office responded and we believed it was SIDS,” Lemhi County Sheriff Lynn Bowerman told East Idaho News. “An autopsy was performed and it was (discovered that) a lethal dose of meth (was) in the child’s stomach.”

The fatal meth dose was likely administered three to four hours before the child died, toxicologists said.

Meanwhile, a witness told police Elam was in possession of meth on the night before the child died.

Officials also found that Elam was along with the baby between 9 a.m. and noon on the day she died, and she “was the only person that could have given (the child) a lethal dose of methamphetamine.”