Man Convicted in Toddler Hot-Car Death Found Dead Before Sentencing—A Final Attempt to Flee Consequences
From the moment investigators realized Christopher Scholtes hadn’t shown up for his mandatory surrender, something felt wrong. The courtroom murmurs, the unanswered phone calls, the eerie silence at his home—all signaled that the tragic story of his daughter’s death was far from over. What authorities discovered just hours later would cast an even darker shadow …