Mom Charged With Murder Of Son

Andrea Michelle Goodwin has been charged with second-degree murder and five counts of felony child abuse for the Oct. 5 death of her 26-month-old son in Challis.

Goodwin, of Challis, was being held Thursday at the Custer County Jail after appearing before Magistrate Charles Roos. He set her bail at $500,000 and scheduled a preliminary hearing for Dec. 18.

An autopsy found that her son, Matthew, choked to death on his own vomit. He also had a broken left arm that was never treated and had received three blows to the head, probably from a large perforated spoon.

Matthew and his 4-year-old brother, Austin, were briefly removed from Goodwin’s home earlier this year while they were living in Elko, Nev.