Just a few miles away in the city of Mansfield, there has recently been a horrifying confession that has left an entire community shaken to the core. After the police decided to take another look into a cold case from 1981, a new and more
gruesome act of cruelty hit the headlines.

37 years ago, Terry Lee Woodson told the police that his nephew Anthony Tyrone Woodson, who they called Burt, had been kidnapped from in front of a 7-11 convenience store. Woodson explained that he had left the five-year-old asleep in the back seat of his car when he went inside to make a purchase. After returning, Woodson claimed that he went home without even noticing that the child was gone. He reported the incident as a kidnapping, testifying that he saw another car pull up to his before returning to the vehicle from inside the store.

The police searched for the boy, but the investigation never yielded further evidence.
But then, in May of this year, the Mansfield police re-opened the case and decided to talk to Woodson Lee Woodson once again. After they interviewed him multiple times, he finally
confessed that Burt had not, in fact, been kidnapped. Instead, he and his wife Della Woodson had beaten the child to death with an electrical cord.

Apparently, the beating took place as a disciplinary measure. After they finished beating the boy, they left him in his room without providing medical care. Woodson admitted that if he, at that point, had gotten Burt to a doctor, he might have survived. After the boy passed away, Woodson wrapped him in blankets and drove him to a four-acre property where he left him in some bushes on the side of the road.

The police searched through the very area indicated by Woodson, both in ’81 and again after the recent interviews, but never found any remains. However, they did have enough to pin the murder to the uncle, and on August 16th, 2018, he was arrested on a murder warrant with a $200,000 bond. Police have asked anybody with any information connected to the case to please step forward.