For seven months, Tamara Mason had been missing from her Alberta, Minnesota, community. Feared dead by her closest friends, police searched and searched for clues and followed leads offered by her sons.
The three sons Jacob and Andrew Cobb, and Dylan Clemens, led police to believe that they had last seen their mother on December 26, 2010, before she had gone out with someone who was possibly driving a dark blue pickup truck.
In truth, the three sons had a little dispute with mom on Christmas day–she wanted to play Yahtzee–they didn’t. Apparently, the request and subsequent argument so frustrated 17 year-old Jacob, that he wrapped a plastic bag around his mother’s head, then choked her to death with a belt. Mason was all of 5′3″, 120 pounds.
In a scene seemingly inspired by a Coen brothers film, these three genius brothers devised that they would hide the body through the rest of winter in a garbage can in the shed, until the ground thawed enough in spring to offer her a proper burial. Seriously, can’t make this stuff up.
After months of searching and a long line of questioning, oldest brother Dylan–who had been incarcerated for something else between Christmas and now–asked someone for advice on how to dispose of a dead body. Clearly the line of communication between he and his little bros. had been lost along the way…?
Police put the pressure on, and Jacob admitted to killing his mother. The other two stood by and watched as he strangled her on the living room floor. Her remains were found last week, buried in the back yard, true to their admission. Jacob has been charged with 2nd degree murder, and his older brothers charged with accessory. Though a juvenile, prosecutors believe Jacob will be tried as an adult.
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