Background: Brittany Gosney being interrogated on Feb. 28, 2021 (Middleton Division of Police). Inset: Gosney’s prison mug shot (Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections).
An Ohio mother broke down when an investigator pressed her on how her young son died when she tried abandoning him and his siblings on behalf of her boyfriend.
“I’m trying not to get pissed off at you, but you’re bulls—-ing me,” he said. “And it’s not going to be good for you. Meaning that you’re f–ing yourself over by not telling me the whole truth here. You know what the f— happened to your boy. I know you know. Tell me what happened to your boy.”
Eventually, Brittany Gosney, 33, answered, while growing visibly emotional, “It feels like you guys are not believing me.”
“I don’t believe you,” he said. “You’re lying.”
Gosney eventually admitted that she and her boyfriend, James Hamilton, 46, tossed her son, James Robert Hutchinson, 6, off a bridge into the Ohio River near Lawrenceburg, Indiana.
“You’re not bulls—-ing me when it comes that’s the spot?” the investigator asked her in 2021.
“Yes, that is the spot,” Gosney said.
The Middletown Division of Police did not immediately respond to a Law&Crime regarding whether authorities ever managed to find young James.
His mother, Gosney, is currently serving a sentence of 21 years to life in prison for murder. Hamilton was sentenced to 15 to 19 years for helping toss the body. Gosney in footage said she tried to abandon her children at her boyfriend’s behest.
“I’m sick of kids,” he said, according to her.
That tragically culminated on Feb. 27, 2021, when Gosney drove her children to the Rush Run Wildlife Preserve in Preble County, where she tried to abandon them. James managed to free himself from his restraints and grabbed the door of the 2005 Dodge Grand Caravan, holding on as Gosney sped away.
“Brittany slammed the gas trying to leave the kids and [dragged] Hutchinson possibly running him over,” court documents stated. “Brittany turned the vehicle around to check on Hutchinson and he was dead.”
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