Billie Jean Cuttler, courtesy Casey Sizemore/The Lufkin News.
LUFKIN, Texas (AP) — An East Texas woman found incompetent to stand trial in
the death of her nephew has remained in county jail eight months after she was
committed to a mental health facility. The Lufkin Daily News reports that Billie Jean
Cuttler, charged with capital murder after the body of 3-year-old Mason Cuttler
was found in a pond, was ordered to a state hospital to undergo a program to
better understand court proceedings. Afterward, she would stand trial or charges
would be dismissed. During a competency trial, an expert testified that Cuttler intellectually
functioned below 99.8 percent of the population.
The boy's father and Cuttler's then-boyfriend Bobby Woods Jr. is also
charged with capital murder in the 3-year-old's death. He has spent more than two years in the county jail
awaiting trial. Woods was 17 and Cuttler was 19 at the time of the 2015 death.
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