Elizabeth Reyna poses for a mugshot after being charged with murder three days after her toddler drowned in a pool.
Billy Ray Crawford poses for his mugshot after being charged for the murder of his 18-month-old stepson who drowned in a pool three days prior to the arrest. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation charged a couple with murder three days after their
toddler drowned in a pool.Officers arrested the child’s mother, 42-year-old Elizabeth Rayna, and 41-year-old stepfather Bill Ray Crawford this afternoon, charging them both with second degree murder. In Georgia, that charge occurs when a child dies as a result of cruelty, even when the death is an accident. The charge carries a sentence of 10-30 years in prison.
According to a GBI news release, the Fort Oglethorpe Police Department asked for state investigators to help them Sunday afternoon when they found 18-month-old Noah Livingston Smith unresponsive in a pool at the Oglethorpe Ridge Apartments off Cloud Springs Road.
The child died Sunday at T.C. Thompson Children’s Hospital at Erlanger.
Rayna and Crawford have not yet received a bond at the Catoosa County Jail.