Colo. mom pleads guilty to strangling infant son, driving around with his body for 'several hours'

BOULDER, Colo. (TCN) -- A woman will spend the next several decades in prison after she pleaded guilty to killing her infant son and driving around with his body.

The Boulder County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday, Aug. 7, that Anna Englund entered the plea for second-degree murder and was subsequently sentenced to 40 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections.

According to the district attorney’s office, on June 10, 2023, the father of Englund’s 2-month-old child called the Boulder Police Department said he was "concerned for the mother’s mental health" and had been ever since she gave birth to their son, Miles. The boy’s father said he "had been paying close attention to the mother and the baby." On the day of the incident, the father went to the bathroom and Englund fled with Miles.

Englund reportedly drove to another location and strangled Miles to death. She drove around with the boy’s body "for several hours while law enforcement was frantically searching for them."

Police said they located her driving toward Boulder Community Hospital at 10:20 p.m., about six hours after she fled with her infant. Police made contact with her in the parking lot and rushed the boy into the emergency room. He was pronounced deceased at 10:48 p.m.

District Attorney Michael Dougherty said in a news release, "This guilty plea and lengthy sentence is the right result in this very sad case."

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