Rachel M’Shale Lambert was a six-month-old infant who died in Oklahoma County in June 2009. Her father, Willis J. Lambert, Jr., reported putting Rachel to bed about 9:00 p.m. and finding her not breathing at 4:30 a.m., then called 911. An inquiry into the death began on June 16, 2009, after a complaint to the Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth highlighted that Willis Lambert had a prior child abuse conviction from about ten years earlier and had been released from prison fourteen months before Rachel’s death.

Both parents were arrested after the investigation. On June 26, 2009, the district attorney filed first-degree murder charges against Willis J. Lambert, Jr. His daughter’s biological mother, Latrice Sheron Russell, was charged the same day with first-degree murder or, alternatively, enabling child abuse. The family’s two other children who were in the home were removed after Rachel’s death.

Does anyone have information about Rachel’s family or what was happening in the household in the months before June 2009?