A 19-year-old mother of a four-week-old baby in Arizona, US has been charged with first-degree murder after the infant’s lifeless body was discovered in a duffel bag at her home earlier this week. The teen mother, identified as Jenna Folwell, has been accused of drowning her infant son in the bathtub on Wednesday. 

As per reports, Folwell later admitted to having killed her son in this manner as she ‘did not want to hear her son cry.’ Police released shocking details about how the 19-year-old mother had planned the baby’s murder. Investigators searched her cell phone with a warrant that brought to the fore startling revelations, reports wgntv.com.

The search history on Folwell’s phone revealed that prior to the killing, she had searched for  ‘ways to die instantly’, ‘missing babies cases’, ‘how long it takes babies to drown’ and ‘reasons parents kill their babies’ on the internet.  There were 100 different types of searches on the topic, Chandler Police said, as per Fox43.com.

On Wednesday afternoon, the 19-year-old had called the police at Brooks Crossing Park near Alma School and Warner roads, alleging that her one-month-old baby had been abducted. The police searched Folwell’s house where she lived with her father even as other investigators spoke to her, the report stated. The cops said they discovered a black duffel bag with the baby’s corpse inside it, covered with blankets, according to the local media reports.

Upon interrogation, Folwell reportedly admitted that she had entered the bathtub with her baby and then let him go as she ‘did not want to hear her son cry.’ As per the report, the accused told the police that after her baby was in the bathtub for nearly a minute, she regretted her decision and retrieved him from the water. She even attempted CPR to save his life but wasn’t successful and thus decided to put him in a duffel bag, she told the cops. Following this, she went to the park and called police to report about the ‘kidnapping’.

Folwell has been charged with first-degree murder and a judge has set a $1 million cash-only bond for her release.