KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP, posted Sept. 7, 2016) — Authorities say a Missouri woman confessed to killing her blind and autistic son, telling investigators she tried to abandon the severely disabled 19-year-old to the care of God before leading him into a field where he eventually died and where she was found lying half-naked nearby.

Prosecutors in southwestern Missouri's Polk County charged Kimberly Lightwine, 42, on Saturday with second-degree murder in Austin Anderson's death, although information about the case wasn't released until Tuesday. Lightwine, whose bond was set at $250,000, also is cha...