A third suspect arrested in connection with the death of young Samuel Olson
A Coldspring man has been arrested and is currently being held in the Jasper County Jail in connection with his alleged role in the transport of a dead child's body that was recently found in a Jasper motel room.
The arrest of Dylan Ray Walker, 27, came following an indictment which was handed down on Thursday morning by a Jasper County Grand Jury after hearing evidence in the case submitted by District Attorney Anne Pickle and her staff.
The indictment charges Walker with Tamper/Fabricate Physical Evidence with Intent to Impair. Specifically, Walker is accused of helping Theresa Raye Balboa, of Houston, to transport the body of 5-year-old Samuel Olson. Bond on Walker was set at $125,000.00 by District Judge Delinda Gibbs Walker.
It now appears that shortly after the indictment was handed down, the document was handed over to the Texas Rangers who were already in San Jacinto County and within a short time they had taken Walker into custody and immediately transported him to the Jasper County Jail.
The arrest of Walker follows the arrest of Balboa, 29, and her roommate, twenty-seven year old Benjamin Rivera, who are charged with the same crime and remain in jail in Harris County. Bond on Balboa has been set at $600,000.00 and bond on Rivera been set at $100,000.00.
Officers close to the investigation now believe that shortly after young Olson died, his body was first kept in a bed at Balboa's apartment, but later moved to a bathtub where it stayed for at least two days before being moved to a storage building in Webster. It is believed that the remains of the child, who had by that time already been dead for almost two weeks, were then brought to Jasper where it was discovered in a room at the Best Western Motel in the 200 block of West Gibson Street on June 1st.
An autopsy has revealed that the child died of blunt trauma to his head. However, who killed the boy and why still remains a mystery.
Investigators have said that Balboa was dating the child's father when the boy went missing.