Aesha Amera Muhammad, 23: 2-Year-Old Son Told Police "Mommy's Dead"

The little boy gave details of how his mother was allegedly killed.

Attendees at Liberty Temple Church in New Jersey were surprised when they heard someone banging loudly on their doors in early December 2000. When they answered, they found the two-year-old son of Aesha Amera Muhammad at their doorstep, alone. He didn't look disheveled and seemed to be quite healthy, but he did wet his pants. The mystery person who knocked was long gone.

"I’ll never forget that day because it was so unusual,” Reverand Robert Jiggetts said. "When they brought the boy to me, I thought he was a member of the congregation. I held him up near the end of the service, and I said, ‘Whose child is this?'"

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Little Amaru was crying and understandably afraid, but the church staff couldn't get much information from him. He could tell them his first name, and that's about it. Members of the church wanted to help the little boy, so they obtained diapers for him while the staff attempted to find his parents.