Let me start off by saying that this episode is only to update you on what’s going on in the news with this case. It’s only for true crime education and it includes my opinions. So we use the word “allegedly” for this entire story.
So on our last show, Abandoned, we told you about the case of Gloria Willaims and Brian Coulter. They’d left Gloria’s children in an apartment with one of the kids being dead. They barely fed them, see them, or generally take care of them. Neighbors were giving them food but not calling cps or the cops for a courtesy check of kids (or even just one kid) they knew were home alone. The 15 year old worked up courage and contacted the cops one day and told them that his brother had been dead in the house for a year and his mother had just left them in the apartment.
Cops came, took the children, searched for the parents, found them, questioned them and released them. Later on, they arrested them and charged them.
Brian was charged with murder and Gloria was charged with injury to a child by omission, injury to a child causing serious bodily harm, and tampering with evidence, namely a human corpse.
For the full case, go back and listen to episode #32 Abandoned for more details about this case.
And now, the update:
Brian Coulter went to court on Thursday October 28 2021. Initially, he’d actually missed his probable cause court appearance on that Wednesday because he had a mental health evaluation. Guess they found him competent to move forward. According to court documents that were read aloud during the probable cause hearing – which went on without him, it was revealed to the court that Brian beat Kendrick Lee, 8 year old boy who was brutally murdered – to death in front of his brothers. The boys said Brian hit Kendrick in the face, feet, butt, back, legs and groin and that Brian continued to kick and hit Kendrick’s body even after he had stopped moving. What in the actual……
During the Thursday hearing, Brian signed a legal consequences form and an emergency protection order. The legal consequences form says that he is not allowed to have any direct or indirect contact with any of the three surviving children. And if he were to make bond, part of that condition is that he would be required to wear an ankle monitor while under house arrest and he can’t have any contact with Gloria.
Also, both of their cases will be transferred to a new court because the initial judge in the case recused himself. I probably would too because I couldn’t be partial. If, for some reason, the jury found them not guilty, I – as the judge – would overrule them and find them guilty.
Anyway, being that the judge stepped down this will probably affect Gloria’s hearing.
As for Gloria, remember she was on a $900,000 dollar bond? Well her bond was raised Friday November 5 2021. The judge raised it to $1.5 million. The judge raised it because he called the $900,000 bond “insufficient.”
Gloria’s attorney, whose name is Neal Davis III, said that the bond “isn’t reasonable” and that he needs “to find out more information” about his client’s “mindset.” He also said that he doesn’t think that Gloria fully understands the severity of the charges she’s facing. And my question to him is “based on what?!” Where are you making this assumption that she’s not competent? That she doesn’t understand what she did? The audacity. And don’t come at me in the comments telling me that’s her lawyer and he has to say things like this. I don’t care!
Oh by the way, her attorney also said, “I don’t want her to be painted in the same light as the co-defendant.”
Now, if you’ve listened to our episode 32 – Abandoned, you would have remembered that Gloria had the apartment that the kids lived in and the one her and Brian lived in. Side note before I tell you this tidbit – the apartment her and Brian lived in was fully furnished and the one the kids lived in – on the 3rd floor – was empty. What a piece of trash. Yea, let’s find out if she’s competent shall we? Now, back to what I was saying. The way she was able to pay for everything is that she collected about $2,000 in government assistance a month for her children — including Kendrick Lee after his death. She received financial assistance for each child who had a disability, and Kendrick was believed to have been autistic, as well as one more of her children. She also continued receiving funds for her oldest daughter who – by the way- was no longer living with Gloria.
Remind me how she’s probably not competent and doesn’t understand the severity of what she did? She can’t understand murder but she can understand money?
Remember that she told investigators that she didn’t report the abuse or death because Brian told her not to? Well, she came back with another reason; she also was scared that Child Protective Services would take her children away and she would go to jail if she reported the murder. Uh yea. You let someone murder your child? Do you think you’re fit to hold the rest of them?
So, when last we spoke, we didn’t know where the kids were. Well the update on that is that Child Protective Services got emergency custody of them. Those poor kids. I really hope they go to a good family and they get the counseling they’re going to need.
Brian Coulter is set to return to court for an arraignment on December 15 2021 and Gloria Williams is scheduled for a court appearance next year. And 8 (would have been 9 year old) Kendrick Lee is dead.
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