Police responded to Bingham’s trailer Tuesday morning after she called 911 to report she was going to kill herself and that she’d already killed her grandson, Rilan Everett.
Responding officers found Bingham walking on the road near her home and detained her without incident. Inside her home they would find Everett decomposing on his bed “with blue and decomposing skin and fluids flowing from the facial area.”
Bingham admitted to officers that on Sept 18 she held a washcloth over Everett’s mouth and nose as he lay awake in bed after telling him “it was time to go.” She removed the washcloth once the boy stopped struggling.
She told police that her initial plan was to kill her and Everett, who was living with her after his mother abandoned him to be with a boyfriend, by turning up the gas in the trailer. When that didn’t work she chose to smother Everett.
After killing Everett, Bingham said she tried killing herself in a variety of ways – including taking pills, drinking bleach, and even hanging herself – but nothing worked. So, as the days went on, she stuffed towels around Everett’s bedroom door and burned incense to hide the smell of the boy’s decomposing body.
Bingham’s next door neighbor, Letoshia Tiggs, said she noticed Bingham and Everett had stopped coming outside and that she received a text from Bingham on Monday that read: “Don’t come in here… Rilan’s been gone now I am too… death.”
For reasons I could not find online, Tiggs did not feel this was alarming enough to contact police.
Bingham was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. She is being held at the Baylor Women’s Correctional Institution on a $1,000,000 cash bail.
Rilan Everett
As for motive, it is looking as if Bingham was about to be homeless. Two judgments against her in the amount of $1,437.53 and $1,530.83 were filed on Sept. 7. A now defunct GoFundMe page was started by Bingham in August seeking $10,000 and stating she had 10 days to come up with $3,000 or she was going to “lose everything.” The page read as follows:
“About 3 yrs ago, I was severely beaten by a guy I was dating at the time which left me with post-concussion syndrome brain injury and pstd with aggression n anxiety . I cannot work because of this and have been fighting with SSi for about a year with a lawyer . My daughter blessed me with a grandson n was helping but has since left to be with a boyfriend and left him here with me. She was suppose to help with everything . Now I only get $270. In state tan if help a month. Back in Feb. Of this year I did a rent to own with this trailer with my tax money. The landlord would not budge on the price. So I put $2,000. Dwn. Pay off in a yr. I put $2,000 into it because it was mice infested roach infested everywhere ,I had to replace the toilet n refrigerator as well as paint n sanitize cause it smelled. Now I’m gonna lose everything. Went to court yesterday n have ten days now to come up withe $3,000. Which includes weekends to be out if I don’t come up with that. The rest I need to maintain the rent to stay until Sis approves me. Now the two neighbors across got raided for heroine about last month n the landlord watched n their not being evicted. Any help is greatly appreciated and I humby thank you from my grandson and me.”
One update read: “My daughter, his mother moved out n in with a drug smoking boyfriend n his pillpopping family, so my grandson is not living there. I am fighting for guardianship that’s why it’s also important to keep my place. I seriously do not ask for help but I’m desperate.”
Her last update, which was 7 days before the fundraiser was to end, read: “Wow..no help yet and only 7 days left. Guess this is really it for us.”
This article was written by Morbid for The Dreamin Demon - the Internet's self-appointed buzzkill.
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