By Victor Omondi
After more than a year of suspected foul play and thorough investigation, authorities have finally determined the whereabouts of two young adopted boys – Orrin, 4, and Orson, 3. Their adoptive parents reported that they were missing in December 2020. A year and a few months later, detectives have established that these two parents, Trezell and Jacqueline West, actually killed the boys. They used the missing report as a scapegoat.
Back in December 2020, Trezell and Jacqueline reported the disappearance of their two sons. This immediately sparked a search, where the police visited their California home. The two secret killers also appeared on local media to announce their sons’ disappearance.
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After searching their home, authorities said they couldn’t see just how the two toddlers could escape from the backyard as their parents claimed. California City Police Chief John Walker told KGET.com that authorities had to place the rest of the couple’s children under protective custody after suspecting foul play.
“I cant comment on whether I think they’re alive or not,” Walker said back then. “I do suspect foul play. We haven’t been able to put together how the boys got out of the yard, or where they’ve gone.”
Trezell and Jacqueline are now facing two counts of second-degree murder charges, “willful cruelty to a child, and filing a false report,” per Kern County Superior Court records.
Kern County could be facing a legal suit for negligence in the removal of the two kids from their biological parents and placing them under the Wests’ custody. The toddlers’ biological father, Charles Pettus, is seeking to file the suit. He also expressed fear that the rest of his children could be killed just like the two and is asking to regain custody over them.
