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Folsom Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for Killing 7-month-old Son
April 21, 2025
District Attorney Collin Sims reports that on April 16, 2025, Judge William H. Burris sentenced 32-year-old Corey Nauck, Sr. of Folsom to life in prison for the first degree murder of Nauck’s 7-month-old son, Carter Nauck. In March, a St. Tammany jury convicted Nauck on the murder charge at the conclusion of a four-day trial. Assistant District Attorneys Iain Dover and Angelina Valuri presented the case to the jury. Detective Daniel Buckner with the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office was the lead detective in the investigation.
According to trial testimony, the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office was notified at approximately 9:10 am, on February 26, 2018, that an infant arrived at St. Tammany Parish Hospital in critical condition with suspicious head injuries. The baby had been brought to the STPH emergency room by his father, Corey Nauck, who did not initially explain how the child had been injured while they were home together, after his wife went to work earlier that morning. Medical personnel testified that Nauck provided numerous explanations about how the baby had been gravely injured, which included the baby being dropped and alternatively the baby falling off of a changing table.
Due to the severity of the baby’s skull fractures, the child was airlifted to a Southshore hospital, where he was determined by medical officials to have no brain activity. Two days later, on February 28, 2018, the baby was taken off of life support and died shortly thereafter. Following an autopsy conducted that same day, the baby’s death was ruled a homicide. The autopsy not only confirmed the baby suffered multiple skull fractures but also revealed bruising over the infant’s chest and buttocks. Additionally, the autopsy revealed a prior rib fracture that was in the process of healing.
Law enforcement officials located and arrested Nauck later that evening at a family member’s home in Mississippi. Nauck eventually confessed that he had “lost it” after his son wouldn’t stop crying. He admitted and demonstrated to investigators how he aggressively shook Carter in a back-and-forth motion, causing the baby’s head to violently strike the floor 5 to 7 times. He also said he got angry because his son didn’t like him for some reason and that his son was “spoiled.” Nauck explained he didn’t tell anyone what he had done to his son because he knew he [the Defendant] “was going to lose everything and everyone.” Nauck further admitted he never called 911 to seek medical assistance. He said after injuring his son, he strapped the infant into their vehicle’s car seat and drove his 5-year-old son to school. On the way to the school, the 5-year-old told the defendant Carter’s skin was turning blue and Carter had blood around his nose and mouth. Instead of changing course to the nearby St. Tammany Parish Hospital, Nauck continued to the school and dropped off the 5-year-old. Nauck then drove in a direction away from the hospital, eventually stopping at a Winn Dixie store. There, Nauck parked and spent several minutes attempting to rouse his son. After that failed, he drove to the hospital and casually walked into the ER, carrying his son’s limp body.
Throughout the trial, jurors listened to testimony from the baby’s medical teams at both of the hospitals where he received treatment for his injuries. All of those witnesses explained to jurors how the baby was so severely injured, that his case would stay with them for the rest of their lives. Defense counsel conceded that Nauck was solely responsible for his baby’s death, but asserted he did not intend to kill him. In the first closing argument, Assistant District Attorney Angelina Valuri stated, “Let your verdict of guilty as charged be the last voice this little boy hears before he finally rests in peace.” Assistant District Attorney Iain Dover said in his closing argument, “The only just outcome in this case is a life sentence. Hand the Defendant a life sentence for the death sentence he handed his 7-month-old son.”
The jury concluded Nauck acted with the specific intent to kill or inflict great bodily injury upon his son and found him guilty of First Degree Murder.
As he did at the conclusion of the trial, District Attorney Collin Sims would once again like to thank the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office, the St. Tammany Parish Hospital, the St. Tammany Parish Coroner’s Office, the Department of Children and Family Services, the Child Advocacy Center, and Ochsner Medical Center – New Orleans for all of their hard work and dedication in this case.