HOUSTON - Authorities have confirmed that the body found in a Jasper motel room is that of 5-year-old Samuel Olson.
According to the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences, the cause of death is homicidal violence with blunt head trauma.
The manner is homicide, officials said. An arrest affidavit obtained last week by FOX 26 stated that Olson died weeks before being discovered in a Jasper motel room following a Crime Stoppers tip.
Theresa Balboa, the girlfriend of Dalton Olson, was arrested last Wednesday in connection with tampering with Samuel's body.