Boulder Mother Sentenced After Postpartum Psychosis Reported
Case summary
On June 10, 2023, Boulder police conducting a welfare check on a woman reportedly in mental health crisis found that Englund's 2-month-old son, Miles, had been killed; she later admitted to strangling him. She was charged with first-degree murder. Reporting on the case documented that she had sought hospital care for suicidal ideation twice before the death and that the baby's father described symptoms consistent with postpartum psychosis. In 2024 she pleaded guilty to second-degree murder under an agreement in which the first-degree charges were dismissed, and she was sentenced to 40 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections. The case has been raised in Colorado discussions of perinatal mental health screening and crisis response.
Mental-health context
The baby's father and case reporting described Englund as experiencing postpartum psychosis, and she had twice gone to a hospital for suicidal ideation before her son's death; police were initially called for a mental health welfare check.
Status / outcome
Guilty plea to second-degree murder; sentenced to 40 years in prison
Sources
- https://bouldercounty.gov/news/press-release-anna-englund-pleads-guilty/
- https://www.9news.com/article/news/crime/boulder-mom-guilty-plea-baby-death/73-879dc7d7-581e-49e8-8070-6d440f5e269b
- https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/anna-louise-englund-boulder-murder-baby-boulder-mental-health-crisis
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