Crime Fix with Angenette Levy - Mummified, Murdered Girl Found Dead in Mom's Closet

Episode Date: October 19, 2025

A 911 call from a tipster who wanted to remain anonymous led police to the discovery of the mummified remains of Alivia Hobbs-Jordan, 7, on June 25, 2023. Alivia's body was strapped into a stroller and hidden inside a closet at an apartment in Dekalb County. Alivia's mother, Alondra Hobbs, pleaded guilty earlier this year to several felony charges including malice murder and felony murder in Alivia's death. Alivia had cerebral palsy and Alondra had never sought treatment for her condition. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy goes through the heartbreaking case in this episode of Crime Fix — a daily show covering the biggest stories in crime.PLEASE SUPPORT THE SHOW: If you’re ever injured in an accident, you can check out Morgan & Morgan. You can submit a claim in 8 clicks or less without having to leave your couch. To start your claim, visit: https://www.forthepeople.com/CrimeFixHost:Angenette Levy  https://twitter.com/Angenette5Producer:Jordan ChaconCRIME FIX PRODUCTION:Head of Social Media, YouTube - Bobby SzokeSocial Media Management - Vanessa BeinVideo Editing - Daniel CamachoGuest Booking - Alyssa Fisher & Diane KayeSTAY UP-TO-DATE WITH THE LAW&CRIME NETWORK:Watch Law&Crime Network on YouTubeTV: https://bit.ly/3td2e3yWhere To Watch Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3akxLK5Sign Up For Law&Crime's Daily Newsletter: https://bit.ly/LawandCrimeNewsletterRead Fascinating Articles From Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3td2IqoLAW&CRIME NETWORK SOCIAL MEDIA:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lawandcrime/Twitter: https://twitter.com/LawCrimeNetworkFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/lawandcrimeTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lawandcrimenetworkTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lawandcrimeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Wondery Plus subscribers can binge all episodes of this Law and Crimes series ad-free right now. Join Wondry Plus in the Wondery app, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. A Georgia mother walks away from her life, abandoning her special needs daughter. So when you left, when you left Olivia, you weren't planning on coming back at all. And the secrets, she's stuffed in a closet, come back to haunt her. Your Honor, Alonra Hobbs is before the court today to take responsibility. and not to run from. I have the horrific case out of Georgia

about the murder of a little girl named Olivia. Welcome to Crime Fix. I'm Ann Jeanette Levy. 29-year-old, Alondra Hobbs, was overwhelmed by life. So she pushed all of her troubles into a closet and left. But those troubles included her seven-year-old daughter, Olivia. A child with special needs for nearly four months. Olivia's mummified body remained strapped into a stroller hidden in a closet within the family's apartment.

Hobbs claimed it wasn't her fault until almost two years after the crime. Is it your decision to go forward with this plea hearing today of knowingly and voluntarily? Yes. Do you understand that you have the right to a jury trial? Yes. Do you understand that you could have a jury trial by pleading not guilty or by remaining silent and not entering a plea. Alondra Hobbs accepted a plea deal

and was convicted of two counts of malice murder, felony murder, and first-degree cruelty to children. During sentencing, the prosecutor provided some insight into the crime. I will say after doing this for 20 years, this one definitely stands out as one of the worst that I have unfortunately ever had to work on. What the facts would have shown at trial would have been that on approximately 6 p.m.

on June 25th of 2020, there was an anonymous 911 caller that reported the presence of the deceased child that was located in a closet, which is here in DeKalb County. Two hours later, that anonymous phone caller actually called again, statement no one had responded. So let's listen to those 911 calls that led to the sad start of this entire case back on June 25th, 2023. It's a dead body of a little girl and building 2815 apartment 27. Can y'all please hurry up? Okay, what's the address there? Apartment 27.

It looks like she's been there for like at least six, seven months. Big Cat 911, what is the Agnes at emergency? Ma'am, I called like two hours ago. I discovered a little girl by the stuff in the closet. They had been there and looked like it's been there for like six, seven months. And the city got clothes on. What's the phone up you calling from? I ain't got no number.

I'm going to remain anonymous. Yes, they'll offer to get some more information from you. Please. Listen, I'm telling you, that should be the most important information that you should get somebody legs moving, wheels turning. If somebody calling you and saying they have discovered a body, whether it's male or female in the closet, and I know it's a child. DeKalb County police officers were the first to respond to the Hidden Valley apartment

on June 25th, 2023, and right off the bat. There was some confusion. Duney. What's going on? What's up, man? Somebody call y'all says a dead body. They said it's a dead body to call. Have y'all been to check?

No. One of your coworkers came earlier, you said, the guy, you know, that he didn't believe it. You know, it was a dark skin, a bald head guy. He came out here, rolled around. He said, the guy's been calling, saying it was a body there. He said, but sound like he crazy or something.

So he was like, I'm gonna play about it. He said, okay. He said, I said, don't go on everybody's self. So I waited. And then finally, some residents, I guess they live the building I just feel like I saw him in the window just then the guy got out the car and said hey man you need to go down there apartment 27 building 28 15 I said what the problem he's just a little girl in the dead so we've been trying to contact 9-1-1 for two days

I said two days no they said you know so but they told me not to go in by myself so want to go check it out yeah this is our third time out here because I checked it myself earlier oh you heard about something like this yeah this is like the fourth call we got ain't going on enough no no but I check again just be sure because they said in the clock No, we ain't looked that good, but, I mean, it could be, up under something. He says in the closet, a little girl, so apartment 27. It said, the car said somebody was out here in the blue Honda or something like that? Yeah, that's the color of the car that pulled up on me.

There's a little blue car, you know, so all they, like I said, when he told me that, you know, huh? Right. It was in this building? Yeah, they said, it was 2815. 2815, yeah. Apartment 27. Uh, yeah. 2115, I saw the unit, so.

Yeah, 27 is on that. Those officers head over to Apartment 27 to investigate the legitimacy of these claims. I hope nobody want to leave a little girl in their dead, not say nothing. There's a reason why Morgan and Morgan is America's largest injury law firm. They're a firm with more than 1,000 lawyers because they win a lot. They've recovered more than $25 billion for more than 500,000 clients. In the last few months, a client in Florida got 12 million. after the insurance company offered just $350,000 in Pennsylvania. A client was awarded $26 million. That was 40 times the insurer's $650,000 offer. Another client in Pennsylvania received $29 million after being offered only $500,000. Can you believe that? So even if you think your case is not worth millions and millions of dollars, why not start a claim and fight for what you deserve? Morgan and Morgan makes it really, really easy. You can start a claim.

from your phone in just eight clicks. So if you're ever hurt, you can easily start a claim at for the people.com slash crime fix or by clicking the link below or scanning that QR code that you see right there on your screen. But when the officers arrived at the door, it was unlocked. They stepped inside and even though they know what they're looking for, I don't think they truly expected to find what they found. See what. Oh. Oh.

Oh. Two, three one. Mm. 3.1. 3.1. What we got? 2815. Apartment 27.

316. You have 59. Ready to 332. I'm clear. Can EMS enter to your lines? You're all right? All right? What are? She in him?

Really? Where? I don't know. I don't see it. I don't see it. That's in their black bag? No, she's on top. She's just, it's so decayed you can't tell. Oh, that's, I told me. You can see the head.

That's what it is, John. That's the arm. But that's the arm, that's the leg. That's the little girl. But that's the arm, that's the leg. But if you look in there, you can see the close. If you look in there, you can see the clothes around the body. You see her hair steel.

You can hear the concern and the shock in the officer's voices as they discussed this discovery. Something that was there for, you're about in the closet. You just can't tell because she's so decayed. You got to like really look. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know how much.

Oh, very cool. The arm area part of the left in the closet to the year old female. So I'm in the head of the head of the head. Is it a child? how it looked like. Was it any of y'all that came out here like an hour ago? Or did anybody speak to whoever called? No.

Did she ask me? No, they were disconnected cell phone and they don't want to meet. I know, we got called out here an hour ago for the same thing. But there's nobody anywhere else in here. Did they tell you it was 10-4 before you came in here? Who? No. So I met with them because the comments on a new call may sound like the person who made the call

was out in the parking lot. parking lot. But they said they just pulled up on them, told them what they did, and then hit the ground. So I thought, no, I thought maybe they had put eyes on the owner already. So I was like, some trouble and they're like, no, we haven't been in there yet. This wasn't on y'all. I was like, this person added myself. Let me just double check. So that 911 caller wanted to remain anonymous and it's honestly a really good thing that the officers validated the claims. Otherwise, no one would have discovered this young girl's body possibly for many, many more weeks. This is so shocking. First responders can't seem to grasp the severity of the

situation. Yeah, it's a little girl, bro. So when we first originally got here, I cleared that room. I went to the closet. I went to the closet. We didn't smell. Oh, you know what I went inside. Yeah, we went inside. We didn't smell anything, nothing like that. We opened up. It's just, she was wrapped up in something so we didn't see. Good, you need anything? No, I'm good. All right.

Okay, appreciate it. Thank you. Erase that image out my head. So if you can erase that image out my head. We cleared that wrong the first time was you and Taylor that went in there? Yeah. Check the closet. I went in the closet, looked in the closet.

I didn't see anything. It didn't stand out. I would imagine she'd stand out to you. I don't know. I think it was probably because maybe she was wrapped up. Was she racked up? Like, it just didn't look. She's sort of like laying on the,

like, some of me appears to be like blankets and stuff like that in the closet. Did you see all that stuff around there earlier? I don't look hard. So it was like blankets and stuff like that in the closet. it and just kind of laying on it. Well, I know I saw her arm. Yeah, so that's, yeah, that's... Maybe it was because probably it's so decayed that...

I mean, I can see how you missed it with now, but I just wanted to be clear as to, because I know they're going to ask. Yeah. I know they may ask about it, so I just want to be sure to give them an answer. I guess. It didn't look like an arm coming, but I guess now when I actually see the full thing, you can do this to a baby, bro.

Eventually, crime scene texts arrived to start documenting the scenes, starting with the area where the little girl was found. That's like left hand. That's what I for me. That's why I think she was sitting in the stroller. And then when she passed, she slumped over. But then new information But then new information halts the search.

But then new information halts the search. I need to tell you this, please don't see the messenger. Lieutenant, or I'm sorry, Major Wallace wants us to stop. He said technically these people are still under eviction, so it is still in their name. So he wants us to get a search warrant. Oh, you have one. No, because we're going to run into issues at court.

court if uh i'm clear so if they had just vacated the apartment that would have been different i was going to say thought would you wait but the problem is the manager just told us okay she just told us that she's still under eviction process yeah so we're calling kernie he's up in the office we're going to knock out one okay i'm sorry please don't be there it's okay. In investigators pause the crime scene analysis until a search warrant is obtained according to the on-site manager the tenants were and since their names are still technically on the lease, proper procedure requires law enforcement to obtain a warrant prior to searching. Four days after the body was discovered on June 29th, Alondra Hobbs was arrested at a motel she was taken into custody and then waived her Miranda rights,

agreeing to speak with the detectives. Have one more question. Please. All right, well, when we went to the scene, there was towels blocking the door. You know what I shut the door, but as far as towels, I never did pick anything in front of the door because I know I didn't want her to get air, but I never did place anything like towels or anything. You want her to get air? Because the rain door was shut, right?

No, I don't want to be out there. So I might open before we got there. You said somebody had to open it. So how did you leave? When I left out of the door, I left her and her strolling with the food or whatever. I shut the door. Not the closet door, the ring door. The bedroom door.

Yes. And I took off. I locked the door and I took off. Where's that key at now if you saw that key? No, I don't. I don't have that key at all. their key at all. That's why I haven't went back there. Did you catch that? Hobbs mentioned that she simply didn't return to the apartment because she didn't have a key. It's clear that she has no

remorse. Investigators push further and they realize this isn't exactly mother of the year material. Like I said, my brother. When he left your daughter, was there anybody else with you size? My kid, my kid, but the dude that took me to my brother's house. But like I said, my brother stole my He, he know what I said, so I don't know. I don't know. When you left the dude that took you to the brother's house, he was there when you left your daughter? He didn't know nothing about her. I didn't tell him.

He came in the apartment? Mm-hmm. Okay, so he came and got you. Mm-hmm. He called him, said, out here, and the horn. Yes, he saw me and said I was pews outside. Does he know anything about a living yet? Uh-uh.

Any guys that I did, but I never let my child around besides. So, what was his? He might have told her, but I'm... Did I say Dilla? I made them off a tag. The excuses just keep getting better. Alondra was leaving her poor baby alone that day, so she could go on a date with a man whose name she doesn't even remember

from a dating app called tag. Investigators ask more questions to pinpoint a timeline on when this happened. I say it was again. Okay. But them towels, no. No. Them towels, what y'all was talking about? What y'all telling me? No. But I did close the door. I wouldn't pick no towels because I knew I had the thermostat running. So I knew she needed some air. I wouldn't pick no towels to start anything. Was she put the therapy bad at? 65?

65. I don't know. You guys normally have an house? Uh-huh. Well, I do. Because I deal with hot slashes. I had fibroids. How many bags did you take with you? For you, I didn't take anything because I didn't plan on spending the night, so everything I had to start on first of all, I had to buy the things. Did you come back after you left that time? Mm-hmm, I didn't. Okay, so when you left, when you left the living, you weren't planning on coming back at all?

No. Because I didn't have no way, like, I tried to communicate, hey, but I didn't find out by that. Belondra spends the rest of the interrogation shifting blame to her boyfriend. I hate it, and I'm here to tell y'all the truth, but I hate this happen, but Cameron messed me up so bad. The things that he did, like, the things that he did to my daughter is the reason why I started reacting and doing things back. You see what I was deeply in love with him, so whatever he told me to do, I did it. And it will be certain times where he will fuck Olivia up so bad, not me. He'll have his mom's where he'll be up so bad.

To the point, if it's church time or we've got to step out, we've got to lie to his family and say, oh, we're not coming. Because she's fucked up and he wanted to give it a healing process to heal. It's plenty of times what that happened. Do you have any pictures of injuries? It would be in the phones that were stolen. Did you ever send anybody in your pictures? Does there any proof of what you're saying?

that we can find for you. I mean, because if we can get proof, it's going to help you, but you're not telling me anything that I can prove. Besides some iPhones, everything is in the iPhones that Alonso sold. And I have a case for that, so, y'all can't get into stuff like that, right? No, we can't just find this in phone out of nowhere. But do you have an I-Cloud account or Google Photos account?

Hey, Alontera 76.g.m.com. So can you pull the photos on this one? I can't. That phone? That phone is not even on. Okay. So in order to be on, like to work it, Wi-Fi. You can't do anything.

Just be clear, you left the door locked. Let the door to your apartment is locked. You shut the bedroom door and you said you locked it and you said you locked the key. Yeah. Well, my brother stole my key, my ID, my food stamp card, my David card, both of my iPhone. What about the sliding door? that lock? Let's slide the door.

I always stay locked. Okay. Yeah. Just glad to know I always stay locked. Cameron, who is dating Alondra for some time, was ruled out as a suspect. Although he helped raise Olivia, he was not her biological father. Cameron's mother, however, provided useful information to investigators that prosecutors then mentioned to the judge at sentencing.

Cameron's mother, Jernigan Hobbs, was also interviewed by the police, and she stated that she kept in touch with Alondra, even after her son. son left. She stated she was very clear that Elin would beat the kids and that they were injured and dirty all the time. She stated that she would take them to her house to feed and bathe them. However, she said the last time that she saw Olivia alive was October 15th of 2022, so approximately four months prior to being abandoned by her mother. She advised our office that Olivia and Cameron would strap Olivia in her stroller when they wanted to control her for what she was acting up.

She also indicated that Olivia was not able to get herself out of the stroller. Your Honor, Olivia, she suffered from cerebral palsy all for life. Court documents also revealed that the defendant did not once seek out treatment for Olivia's cerebral palsy her entire life. The prosecutor gives the judge more reasons why she isn't actually remorseful. She admitted that she knew it was wrong and said that she was overwhelmed and just couldn't do it anymore. She stated that she left Olivia with a bottle of water in a sandwich-side Ziploc bag that was filled with chips and cookies. And that's all she left her with.

When asked if she wanted Olivia to have a funeral, her response to law enforcement was that she did not want one because no one had ever really helped her with Olivia. She also stated that she was either going to do what she did to Olivia or she was going to kill herself. And so she made the choice to kill her daughter. Her demeanor during the interview, she frequently cried. She regret the questions and she blamed the camera quite a bit.

She showed no emotional reaction when told about the condition of her body that her daughter was found mummified. Then Hobbs' defense attorney takes time to address the court, but not to make more excuses for the defendant. Your Honor, Alondra Hobbs is before the court today to take responsibility and not to run from it. In meeting with her several times, she has made her wishes to me very clear. She does not want me to make excuses for what she's done.

She does not want to trial. She wants to take responsibility. It's something that she has not done in certain moments of this investigation, to detectives and before. It is something she wishes to do now. And in a case like this, they are not... that I think ultimately would matter. There's not mitigation that makes this okay. There are not any circumstances in someone's life

that would be a worthy justification. A person who confesses, a person with remorse, a person who begs for mercy should find some in our system. We are asking that the court sentenced her to a sentence of life with the possibility of poll, a sentence that there is some hope, some mercy, and some dignity.

Alandra Hobbs wishes to atone and wishes to take responsibility, and she resents herself to the court, and thanks for that much. Judge Latisha Jackson accepted Hobbs' guilty plea and took a moment to address her prior to sentencing. I've been doing this for a while. On this very rare cases where I have a other case that does not involve a weapon, a physical weapon. And even sometimes hands aren't a physical weapon. And it's difficult of how do you process that? How do you process someone who says, I want to take responsibility. I understand what I did was not right. And I do not want to go forward with the trial because I am taking responsibility and I'm not making excuses. And you balance that against what the victim went through.

And there's different types of punishment. There's some that are deterrents so they would never do it again. There's some that's rehabilitation, which does not apply here. There's some that's restribution. And there's some that's punitive that sends a message. more so to not only the offender but to the community and I have to balance all of those of what is best for this case and having said that what I'm going to do is I'm going to impose a sentence of a whole sentence of total sentence for the entire case to life without the possibility of parole

you be given credit for the 660 days that you have served which is credit from the time that you were in custody Hobbs will spend the rest of her life behind bars in prison. And that's it for this episode of Crime Fix. I'm Ann Jeanette Levy. Thanks so much for being with me. I'll see you back here next time.