{"id":82990,"date":"2024-10-01T08:44:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T01:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/?p=82990"},"modified":"2024-10-01T08:44:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T01:44:45","slug":"father-and-missing-6-year-old-found-fatally-shot-at-remote-campsite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/father-and-missing-6-year-old-found-fatally-shot-at-remote-campsite\/","title":{"rendered":"Father and missing 6-year-old found fatally shot at remote campsite"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brandi Morey-Pols and Michael S. Winchell shared a custody of their six-year-old son, Rowan M. Morey.\n

The boy would spend time with both his mother and father, but when Winchell failed to returned the boy home to his mom after a visit on Monday, Aug. 19, Morey-Pols knew something was very wrong and alerted the authorities who checked Winchell\u2019s home. Neither he nor the boy were there so they started an extensive search.\n

Sadly, two days after the missing report was filed, Winchell and young Rowan were found dead inside a camper on East River Road in Chippewa Township.\n

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Police suspects murder-suicide. Winchell killed his own son before taking his own life.\n

\u201cI would always agonize over if he was going to come home or not; and this time, he didn\u2019t,\u201d devastated Morey-Pols said at a press conference Tuesday afternoon. She recalled moments when her son\u2019s father would shave the boy\u2019s head if she did anything to upset him.\n

Disturbed by Winchell\u2019s behavior, Morey-Pols spoke to Child Protective Services repeatedly, but said she would often be turned away.\n

\u201cA mom is never wrong when she knows there\u2019s something going on with her baby,\u201d Morey-Pols said. \u201cI knew. They just didn\u2019t help.\u201d\n

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Rowan\u2019s grandfather, Jerry Pols, said that the family court system has failed them for years concerning Winchell and his treatment of Rowan.\n

\u201cWe are not dealing with minor cracks in the system, but gaping holes that allow children like Rowan to fall through,\u201d Pols said during Tuesday\u2019s press conference. \u201cOften with catastrophic consequences.\u201d\n

We are sorry for the loss of Rowan, may he rest in peace.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brandi Morey-Pols and Michael S. Winchell shared a custody of their six-year-old son, Rowan M. Morey. The boy would spend time with both his mother and father, but when Winchell failed to returned the boy home to his mom after a visit on Monday, Aug. 19, Morey-Pols knew something was very wrong and alerted the …\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":82991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[670],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82992,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82990\/revisions\/82992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}