11/21/2025
Please keep the friends and family of Christian Hildebrant in your thoughts and prayers!!
Once again justice has not been served!! The trial went on for 3 days and ended yesterday with a mistrial. There was a hung jury and there will be another trial to come.
But for over 4 years this family has been waiting for justice and has had to relive the worst day of their life. And now they will have to relive it all over again through another trial.
With the gentle creak of ceiling fans overhead and the hum of the air conditioner the only things to cut the silence, a distraught mother walked up to the witness stand inside the Washington County Courthouse on a mission of justice for her son.
Kim Little forced herself to, as she put it, “relive the worst day” of her life.
“Just everything—it’s hard. It’s hard. I don’t wish this on anybody,” she told FOX 2 News afterward. “I don’t want to do this, but I have to do this.”
Little was the opening witness for prosecutors against Derek A. Politte for the 2021 murder of her son, Christian Hildebrandt, whom she called “my little mini.”
Hildebrandt was found dead in a wooded area in Fletcher, Missouri, on the afternoon of March 11, 2021. He was 28.