A father arrested after his seven-month-old went missing told a fellow inmate he killed the baby and left his body in a waste bin at their home in California.
Jake Haro, 32, and his wife Rebecca, 41, were charged with murder after detectives allegedly found evidence contradicting their story that their son Emmanuel had been kidnapped.
Emmanuel’s body has not been found but prosecutors say they have a ‘pretty strong indication’ of where it is and how he died.
An undercover officer or informant placed in the same jail as the boy’s father reportedly spoke to the suspect after he arrived.
Sources told US outlet NewsNation that Haro admitted to the killing, although details of the method were not disclosed.
District Attorney Michael Hestrin told a press conference that reports of a ‘confes