Little Jason Rimer was alone outside in the big sport utility vehicle. But no one seemed to notice.
He was a 4-year-old who still wore diapers, couldn't dress himself and had trouble walking because of a genetic disease that crippled his body and his mind.
Yet his parents and five older brothers didn't seem too worried that Jason wasn't around.
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Colleen Rimer climbed out of the Excursion and headed inside. She told police she asked her 15-year-old son, who also might be developmentally disabled, to get Jason out of the vehicle, but added he might not have heard her because she had laryngitis, the report said.
That boy gave conflicting accounts of whether he heard his mother's order, and the other boys told police they didn't hear her tell anyone to get their little brother, the report said.
Colleen Rimer, who said she was also feeling ill, went upstairs and napped, a common activity for her on Sunday afternoons, while the boys stayed downstairs and played video games.
After several hours, Colleen Rimer drove back to the church to pick up Brandon Rimer. The teenager told police she drove her husband's Dodge truck, which was unusual because she always drove the Excursion, the report said.
When she went downstairs to cook dinner, Colleen Rimer told her children to look around the house for Jason.
"When I looked, I didn't find him either. So I don't know why it slipped my mind," Colleen Rimer told police. "Then I just went and took dinner to my husband."
At bedtime, the children slept downstairs in the living room because their bedrooms don't have air conditioning, the report said. None of them noticed Jason was missing.
That night, Colleen Rimer woke up about 1 a.m. to go to the bathroom and "didn't have the right kind of feeling. You know what I mean?" she told police. She lay down and went back to sleep.
During questioning by detectives, Colleen Rimer denied that she or anyone else intentionally hurt Jason. The detectives suggested that was the case, pointing to evidence that she drove a different vehicle to pick up her oldest son from church and suggesting she intentionally asked one of her developmentally disabled sons to get Jason from the SUV in hopes he would fail.
