Adoptive mother of Jesse Wilson to be extradited from Georgia to Arizona in March

The adoptive mother of Jesse Wilson, a 10-year-old boy found dead in Buckeye in 2018, will be extradited to Arizona in March, according to a court document from the Magistrate Court of Hall County in Georgia.

The document, which was signed on Wednesday and released on Thursday by Buckeye police, declared that Crystal Wilson, 54, would remain incarcerated at the Hall County Jail until March 15, 2023. An arrest warrant shows she is being held on a $50,000 bond.

Police arrested Wilson in Gainesville, Georgia, on Monday on the charge of “abandonment or concealment of a dead body,” a class five felony, in the case of her adopted son, who went missing in 2016 and was found dead nearly two years later.

Buckeye police Chief Larry Hall said the evidence collected pointed back to Wilson.

"Through the course of the investigation, it was a blessing and a curse that it was a high-profile case because we had got a lot of leads on this case, but all of our leads led back to Crystal being responsible," Hall said.

Jesse was last seen in his room in his Buckeye home on the night of July 17, 2016. Buckeye police at the time determined he left through a window in his bedroom. Wilson reported the disappearance the morning after.

Authorities quickly deemed the situation critical due to sweltering midsummer heat and the dangers the boy could face while walking alone. Jesse was known to slip out of the house to walk around the neighborhood at night, but he would never leave for long.

Search parties involved federal investigators, neighbors and other volunteers. Teams worked throughout the summer to try and find Jesse. The Buckeye Police Department continued investigating for months, but for nearly two years, there were few updates in the case.

Then, on March 8, 2018, a Buckeye employee found scattered skeletal remains near the intersection of State Route 85 and Broadway Road. Later that month, DNA analysis demonstrated that the remains were Jesse's.

Hall told reporters on Tuesday that he believes the main cause of Jesse's death was neglect, citing “issues at the house,” but that there wasn’t enough evidence to charge Wilson with murder.

Reach the reporter Perry Vandell at 602-444-2474 or perry.vandell@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter @PerryVandell.

This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Jesse Wilson's adoptive mother to be extradited to Arizona