Stan and Colleen Rimer Forgot Jason

UPDATE 7/18/08 – Today, the Clark County Coroner ruled Jason Rimer’s death a homicide with cause of death listed as “environmental heat stress.”  Stanley and Colleen Rimer are facing multiple charges in the death of their son, including second degree murder. More details at the bottom of this article.

L to R:  Stanley Rimer, Jason Rimer, Colleen Rimer

Las Vegas, NV (June 10, 2008) - Not a lot of information on this one yet, but there seems to be another dead kid who was left in a vehicle. On Monday morning, a sibling found Jason Rimer in the family SUV outside of the home, 17 hours after the family had returned from a family outing on SundaySunday reviews afternoon. Police are saying that Stan and Colleen Rimer forgot the boy, leaving him in the SUV after returning from church activities. The temperature peaked at 90 degrees at about 6 p.m. on Sunday, meaning the inside of the car would have hit 130 degrees within an hour. When I first started typing this up, I couldn’t understand why the kid couldn’t get himself out of a car and figured he may have been restrained. I then found out the boy was not in a car seat at all and that he was mentally disabled.

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