Cadence Langley was just 14 years old when someone shot her in the back of the head and dumped her body in a livestock watering box in a rural part of Safford, Arizona in October 2020.

Late last month, her mother Amber Langley, 38, was arrested on fraud charges for allegedly continuing to collect her daughter’s government assistance benefits for nearly two years after the autistic girl’s death.  Those benefits added up to the tune of some $4,700, according to the Gila Herald.

On Oct. 26, 2020, when Cadence’s body was originally discovered by a quail hunter, investigators had no idea who she was. The girl was found on a ranch, wrapped in a tarp, and placed in a 4-by-2-foot trough, partially submerged, with a collection of toys near her body.

A forensic pathologist determined the victim, long known as Artesia Doe after the name of a nearby town, was between the ages of 14 and 22 years old and had been murdered, Graham County Sheriff P.J. Allred said in December 2020, according to the Eastern Arizona Courier.

“Somebody had to remove the cover, put her in it and cover it back up,” Allred told the paper, describing the float box.

Working with the Graham County Sheriff’s Office, a likeness was generated by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children “based on the girl’s measurements and other information,” the Herald reports. The girl’s NCMEC page has since been…