Grandmother indicted on murder charges after 2-year-old’s body found in cooler in Cincinnati

Now, the Hamilton County Coroner’s Office ruled the child’s death a homicide caused by blunt-force trauma. The coroner’s office also said her body had various injuries incurred after she died.

Austin now faces one count of aggravated murder, two counts of murder, two counts of felonious assault, one count of tampering with evidence and one count of gross abuse of a corpse. Austin could face life in prison if convicted on all counts.

“As a father and a grandfather, I am sick,” Deters said. “It is impossible to comprehend the depravity of an individual able to not only strike a 2-year-old so hard to cause her death, but to then attempt to conceal that crime by stuffing the child’s lifeless body into a cooler.”