A Connecticut mother, who was the subject of a Silver Alert after disappearing with her 1-month-old child, now faces charges related to the infant’s murder.

Sadie Fleming, aged 27, has been accused of murdering her son, Hudson Fleming, by drowning him, as reported by the Connecticut State Police. The arrest warrant, reviewed by Law&Crime, reveals that Sadie experienced disturbing symptoms the night before their disappearance, including a belief that she was being pursued.

A woman who shared a residence with Fleming and her baby recounted seeing them last around midnight on June 8, as they retired for the evening. By the following morning, both Fleming and her son were missing.

Details from the arrest warrant, which concealed the identity and relationship of the informant to Fleming, indicated that Fleming had a history of mental health challenges. She had recently begun a new medication regimen just before she and her son vanished. These factors led authorities to issue a Silver Alert for the mother and child, shortly after which a sighting of a woman fitting Fleming’s description was reported.

According to the warrant, a 911 call was made by a woman whose daughter spotted someone resembling Fleming in her neighborhood in Washington, a rural area located approximately 35 miles northwest of New Haven. State troopers discovered Fleming on Blackville Road, appearing drenched and mentally disoriented. When questioned about her baby’s whereabouts, Fleming allegedly responded with confusion, asking, “What baby?”

Police who encountered Fleming said that she seemed to be “extremely paranoid and panicked,” and “did not know her own name” or where she was. Fleming eventually calmed down, but then became “unresponsive” and was taken to the hospital.

At the same time, a search was happening nearby for Hudson, whose lifeless body was found in a “small body of water.” Found near Hudson’s body was an infant carrier and a vape pen, both of which were identified as belonging to Fleming. An autopsy concluded that his cause of death was drowning.

When Fleming was at the hospital, the woman who reported her missing spoke with detectives and detailed Fleming’s history of mental health issues, which dated back to 2019. The woman told detectives that on the night of June 7, Fleming took her “nighttime meds,” including a new medication, at around 8:30 p.m. and got Hudson ready for bed between 11:30 p.m. and midnight.

According to police, Fleming told the woman while she was in the hospital that in the early hours of June 8, she purportedly hid in a closet with Hudson because she thought “people were after her.” Fleming also described running through “the woods, the river, and a field” and cutting her hands on barbed wire. She also said of Hudson, “He’s gone, I’ve lost him.”

When police questioned Fleming, she told them a similar story, adding that the people who were purportedly after her were also “trying to kill her.” She told police that days earlier, she began having thoughts that “Illuminati people” were trying to “get” her.

Police described Fleming’s recent medical history since Hudson’s birth in late April, including a list of medications for a medical condition that was redacted from the document. Notes about Fleming’s medical history included “concerns with the [Department of Children and Families] investigation” and “significant concern with Hudson’s father.”

On June 2, Fleming requested a telehealth appointment after reporting that she was “having some paranoia again, feeling manic, irritable.” Her most recent appointment was on June 6, two days before she and Hudson were reported missing. According to the warrant, Fleming had someone else speak to the clinician on her behalf because she “did not feel like talking.” She agreed to an in-person appointment on June 9.

Fleming obtained an attorney, who told police in July that she would not speak to police. After the autopsy on Hudson determined his manner of death to be homicide, police obtained a warrant for Fleming’s arrest.

Fleming was taken into custody by police on Wednesday and appeared in court the same day, charged with murder and risk of injury to a child. Her bond was set at $5 million, and her next court date was scheduled for Nov. 7.