Lacey Spears, 26, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of second-degree depraved murder and first-degree manslaughter, CBS 2’s Lou Young reported. She was ordered held without bail at Westchester County jail and is due back in court July 2. The only words the 26-year-old Alabama native uttered in state Supreme Court in White Plains were "Yes, sir," when Justice Barry Warhit asked if she was Lacey Spears. Live chat: 7 p.m., Wednesday, June 18, with Shawn Cohen and Peter D. Kramer 
 
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 Lloyd said prosecutors know from computer records that Spears had searched the Internet to research what the effects of salt would be on her son. (Video by Joe Larese/The Journal News) 
 
 The grand jury's vote concluded a two-week presentation from prosecutors, who based their case on months of investigation in New York, Florida and Alabama -- where Spears and her son lived -- and Tennessee, where they visited Vanderbilt University Hospital. “She really didn’t show any emotion,” Westchester Police Capt. Christopher Calabrese, commander of the Westchester County Police Detective Division, said the investigation involved hundreds of interviews and the analysis of tens of thousands of pages of medical records by Westchester and Ramapo detectives and the Westchester County District Attorney's office. Lacey Spears Pleads Not Guilty To Poisoning 5-Year-Old Son To Death In Westchester County Monica Miller reports playpause 
 
 Spears, who had been staying with family in Kentucky, turned herself in to Westchester County police Tuesday after an indictment against her was handed up and police obtained an arrest warrant. “What would make someone sick enough to hurt their child?” 
 
 One resident of the community has said Spears called her asking that she dispose of Garnett’s feeding bag just before he died. WEB EXTRA: Read The Indictment 
 
 Authorities believe the mother tortured her son medically for years and might have suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a psychiatric illness in which a parent sickens a child to gain attention and sympathy. She anticipated this happening, and she turned herself in with her attorney.” 
 
 A judge denied bail for Spears, who faces a maximum sentence of 25 years to life in prison if convicted. “How did so many people live around that story and none of us knew?” said Kirsten Young, another resident of the community, said in May. The case could be the first invovling Munchausen syndrome by proxy in the Internet age, Young reported. Buy Photo Lacey Spears is accompanied by her father, Terry, as she is led into a back door at Westchester County Police headquarters in Hawthorne on June 17, 2014. I think that she knew the grand jury was going on. Lacey and Garnett Spears lived the last year of the boy’s short life living at the Fellowship Community, an idyllic communal community in Chestnut Ridge, in Rockland County, where the mother cared for the elderly and farmed, and the boy attended school. Garnett was brought to Nyack Hospital on Jan. 17 with seizure-like symptoms before being transferred to Westchester Medical Center on Jan. 19 after his sodium levels rose with no medical explanation. At the request of doctors, the state Office of Children and Family Services had already launched an investigation into whether Spears was harming her son before Garnett died Jan. 23, prosecutors said. Because Garnett died in Westchester County, police there are handling the case.
– After a months-long investigation, an Alabama mom has been charged with murder: Prosecutors in Westchester County, NY, say Lacey Spears poisoned her 5-year-old son through a feeding tube, likely in an effort to gain sympathy on social media. She "was intentionally feeding her son salt in toxic levels," said a district attorney in court yesterday, where Spears pleaded not guilty. Her charges include second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter; prosecutors aren't arguing that she meant to kill her son Garnett, but they say she behaved without regard for his life, the Journal News reports. There was no medical explanation when his sodium levels soared, and prosecutors say Spears had done online research into how salt affects one's health, CBS 2 reports. The case may be among the first to grapple with the psychiatric disorder Munchausen by proxy in the Internet age: Spears posted updates about her son's frequent illnesses on Facebook. She told friends he needed to be fed through a tube, but they regularly saw him eat solid foods. Police believe Spears may have poisoned him more than once, and the investigation began even before he died on Jan. 23. When he did, she initially got sympathy, the Journal News notes. But some who know her now tell the paper they're not surprised at the charges. "I really wish we could have prevented this because there were signs," says one. "She put all over Facebook how wonderful she was. She had us all snowed." The murder charge carries a sentence of 25 years to life. Click for more on the lies Spears reportedly told.