Oregon man allegedly confesses to killing 11-month-old son — after spinning phony tale of boy’s disappearance

An Oregon man allegedly confessed to killing his 11-month-old son – after initially spinning a phony tale for police about how the boy went missing. 

Jared Scott Jeremy Stoller was thrown behind bars and slapped with first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse charges in connection to his son Jackson’s death Sunday – just hours after he called 911 to report the boy missing, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.  

Officers who responded to the dispatch call just before 10 a.m. found “suspicious circumstances” inside Stoller’s hotel room at the Relax Inn in Sutherlin, Oregon, the sheriff’s office said.

There, Stoller desperately claimed the boy had been snatched out of a car seat he’d been sleeping in, through a window that had been opened while Stoller himself was asleep, The News Review reported.

Officers who responded to the dispatch call found “suspicious circumstances” inside Stoller’s hotel room at the Relax Inn in Sutherlin, Oregon, the sheriff’s office said. Google maps

The 27-year-old dad allegedly dropped the act later, during police questioning.

“Stoller was interviewed by detectives from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office and eventually confessed that he had murdered Jackson days earlier at a location in Roseburg,” a town about 20 miles north of the hotel, the sheriff’s office said.

“Stoller told detectives that he had disposed of the child’s body in the South Umpqua River.”

While leading investigators to his son’s body, the father allegedly claimed the boy’s death had been an accident, court docs reportedly show.

The Sheriff’s Office Dive Team, alongside boats from the Oregon State Police and Douglas County, recovered the baby’s body, which was taken to the medical examiner’s office for an autopsy. 

Additional court records reveal Stoller had been ordered to pay child support to the boy’s mother in 2025, but it’s unclear why he had custody of the son and why they were staying at the hotel, The News-Review reported.

“Stoller told detectives that he had disposed of the child’s body in the South Umpqua River,” the sheriff’s office said. Kezi

Stoller was ordered held without bail during his arraignment hearing Monday, which he attended remotely – clad in a suicide-prevention smock – from an isolation cell at Douglas County Jail, according to the outlet. 

He faces life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted of first-degree murder. His next court appearance is on Friday. 

A defense attorney for Stoller could not be reached for comment.