The dad who took his own life to avoid decades in prison for leaving his 2-year-old daughter to die in a hot car has committed Su!cide, but you won’t believe how he did it .
Christopher Scholtes, 38, was discovered dead in the garage of the home he shared with his wife, Dr. Erika Scholtes, around 5 a.m. on November 5, hours after his suicide.
He k!lled himself in a chilling echo of his heinous crime — by suffocating himself in his vehicle.
While the exact cause of death is pending confirmation, it is widely believed he died of carbon monoxide poisoning, according to the medical examiner.
Police and prosecutors previously confirmed the death as a suicide. Family members have clarified that the car he died in was not the same vehicle in which his little daughter, Parker, perished.
Scholtes’ death is shockingly similar to how his 2-year-old daughter, Parker, slowly baked to death in his car after he left her in the driveway for more than three hours on a scorching summer day in 2024.
At the time of her death, the deadbeat dad was allegedly inside the house watching porn, drinking beer, and playing video games.
Scholtes pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in October and was expected to face up to 30 years in prison. His prison term was scheduled to begin on November 5, but he killed himself the day before, effectively dodging justice over his child’s death.
“This little girl’s voice was nearly silenced because justice was not served appropriately this morning,” a county attorney said in a statement after his death.
Scholtes left behind a wife and three other daughters.
Temperatures had soared to a scorching 109 degrees under the desert sun when Parker died trapped in the family car last July.
The deadbeat dad had been inside the house watching porn, drinking beer and playing video games at the time of her death.
Her body was found by her horrified mother upon returning home. Scholtes initially tried to tell responding police that he’d left her in the vehicle for no more than 45 minutes, but he later conceded that he knew the car’s engine and air conditioner automatically turned off after 30 minutes unattended.
And he was apparently in a position to know that fact, as leaving his kids in the car was allegedly alarming common behavior on his part.
Scholtes’ eldest daughter, a 17-year-old from a previous marriage, alleged that he had been leaving her unattended in cars for hours at a time since she was “younger than 7” in an explosive lawsuit filed just days before his death.
This suggests Scholtes had been leaving his kids in cars for more than a decade before the behavior finally killed little Parker. His other children also told investigators that he regularly left them unattended in his car while he went inside the house.
Scholtes’ own wife even confronted him about the behavior after Parker died, texting him, “I told you to stop leaving them in the car” after the tragedy.
“How many times have I told you?” she demanded.
“Babe, I’m sorry,” Scholtes replied. “Babe, our family. How could I do this? I killed our baby, this can’t be real.”
His elder daughter’s lawsuit also alleged she was regularly neglected and physically abused by him.
She claimed he even falsified a conservatorship over her to cash in on government support checks.
“As a result, Plaintiff suffered severe emotional distress, anxiety, depression, suicidal ideations, post traumatic stress, and long-term psychological harm,” her lawsuit read.
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