Scott it is alleged,  covered the child’s mouth so that his grandmother would not hear the baby scream or cry.
When the couple realized Bryeon was dead, they stuffed his body into a backpack, drove to the Des Plaines river and threw it in the water.
Baker then went to the police, claiming that her son had been abducted. She even made her four-year-old son practice their cover-up story over and over in case he was questioned.
Baker claimed Bryeon was snatched from her on their way to a McDonald’s, telling reporters that she and her son were attacked and beaten by three Hispanic men.
Baker’s boyfriend, 26-year-old Michael Scott, [photo, right], has been charged with murder and the case against him is still pending. She even picked three out in a police mug book.
‘They pulled up out of the alleyway and told me, ‘Didn’t we say we didn’t want to see you here no more?’ They pulled down my hair and pulled me in the car and started beating me and all I heard was my baby just screaming,’ Baker told the local TV station at the time.
She even appeared in news reports with a swollen eye.
The report of the kidnapping prompted an Amber Alert and set off a search of abandoned buildings, trash bins and industrial areas by authorities and volunteers.
Canine units were brought in, and a search of the Des Plaines River was carried out with divers and sonar equipment.
Under questioning, Baker ultimately admitted that the kidnapping story was a lie and that she and Scott had beaten her son so severely that he died.
A month after the child’s killing, a kayaker found Bryeon’s heavily decomposed body in the Des Plaines river near Brookfield Zoo in North Riverside. It took officials months to positively identify him.
Scott’s criminal case is still making its way through the court system.