Did a father use his 6-year-old son as an alibi for murder?

Reginald Reed Jr., known as Reggie, spent more than two decades wondering who killed his mother, Selonia Reed , when he was only 6 years old. Selonia, a bank teller, was 26 when her body was found in her car in Hammond, Louisiana. One of the last memories Reggie has of that day is his mother buying him a chocolate chip cookie at the Hammond Square Mall. He also remembers her kissing him goodbye but everything else is a blur. "48 Hours" and contributor Vladimir Duthiers investigate what happened in the decades that followed in "The Day My Mother Never Came Home." An encore of the episode airs Saturday, June 27 at 10/9c* on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. (Following the WNBA on CBS). Reginald "Reggie" Reed Jr., left and his mother, Selonia Reed. Facebook It was a hot summer day in August 1987 when Selonia's body was found inside her blue Chevy Sprint in a parking area about one-and-a-half miles from the Reed home. Police said she had been bludgeoned, stabbed multiple times and stripped naked. It was clear, police said, that she was sexually assaulted. Selonia's husband Reginald Reed Sr. had reported her missing an hour or so before her body was found. Reginald told police on the morning of Aug. 23, 1987, that Selonia told him she was going out with a girlfriend the night before. That girlfriend later told police the two had "no plans" to go out that night, but Reginald stuck to his story. …