After the officer who pulled Nicole Johnson over smelled "the unmistakable odor of decomposition," the suspect purportedly removed a blanket from her trunk, exposing the remains of one child, with the other found in a plastic bag.

Nicole Johnson, 36, was sentenced to life, suspend all but 50 years after the bodies of two children were found in her car during a traffic stop in Essex back in July 2021.

A woman will spend half a century in prison after the bodies of her young niece and nephew from Dayton were found three years ago in a car trunk near Baltimore. Nicole Michelle Johnson, 36, was sentenced Monday in Baltimore County Circuit Court to 50 years to life in prison.

A woman received a sentence of life imprisonment Wednesday with all but 50 years suspended after Maryland police discovered the decomposing bodies of the woman’s niece and nephew in her car during a 2021 traffic stop.