According to Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, Rashesh Patel, came home on Thursday to discover his wife, Neha Patel, 32, and their son missing. He tried to locate her and, at one point, was contacted by a credit card company who told him his card had been used in the Ocala area. He drove to Ocala but was unsuccessful in finding his wife. He returned to his Polk County home and contacted authorities on Thursday evening. Early the next morning, the woman came home with the baby, Ishan, wrapped in a blanket. Rashesh took the blanket and saw the child's lifeless body.
Judd said she told her husband, "I killed him, and I'll be dead tomorrow." After Rashesh contacted Neha's father, she ran out of the house and drove away. Judd said officers tracked Neha Patel's vehicle to Tampa International Airport. But then she left and filled up her car at a 7-Eleven Thursday evening. Judd said the woman suffers from postpartum depression and has said in the past that she wanted to die in the Smoky Mountains.
Just before 7:30 Friday morning, Polk County officials notified airport police that Neha Patel, 32, had used her credit card at the TIA economy parking garage. Patel's vehicle was seen driving into the airport's long-term parking garage just after 1:00 p.m. The woman was apprehended and taken to an airport holding cell. Polk County detectives interviewed Patel at the airport, and she will be booked into the Hillsborough County Jail. Judd said the baby had suffered "significant trauma." He said the mother faces a first-degree murder charge. "I can't understand how anyone could murder a baby like this," Judd said.
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