JACKSON, Ky. — For six days, Felicia Gross kept up her portrayal of a mother frantic to find her missing 10-year-old son. But on Tuesday, that ruse fell apart.

Court records are painting a picture of the events that led to Jayden Spicer’s death.

Spicer was believed to have disappeared from his home during the early morning hours of Aug. 6. That prompted a weeklong search for the boy, which yielded no clues.

But during an interview with police on Tuesday, Gross confessed to giving her son a sleeping medication prior to putting him to bed Aug. 5. She further claims that the medicine caused him to have an medical emergency that killed him.

After his death, she told police she took his body to wooded area along Canoe Road, nearly 20 miles from her home. That’s where police found Spicer’s body on Tuesday, buried in a shallow grave.

She further told police she coached her other children about what to say during interviews with police.

Gross has now been charged with second-degree manslaughter, abuse of a corpse, evidence tampering, falsely reporting an incident, and two counts of witness tampering.

She is being held in the Kentucky River Regional Jail, in Hazard.