The corpses of seven dead babies, six of them stored in shoe boxes, were found by the ex-husband of Megan Huntsman, 39, in the garage of the Pleasant Grove, Utah house where she lived up until 2011. Mrs. Huntsman, now residing in West Valley City, was arrested early Sunday morning April 12, 2014, the day her ex-husband discovered one corpse and police later found five others, on suspicion of serially murdering the infants. She confessed to killing six of the children between 1996 and 2006 using either of two different murder methods: suffocation or strangling. One of the babies was, according to her claim, stillborn.
The Huntsman case is the 25th to be included in a list of 21stcentury “Serial Baby-Killing Mom” cases. Following is the list:
2002 Gloria Jean Greenfield – Warren, Ohio – 3 own babies
2002 “Toda Serial Killer Mother” – Toda, Japan – 6 newborns
2003 Kathleen Folbigg – Mayfield, Australia – 6 victims: 4 own babies
2003 Diane O’Dell – Rome, Pa. & NY – 4 own babies
2006 Chizuko Okamoto – Hiratsuka, Japan – 4 children, 3 infants & daughter (19)
2005 Sabine Hilschenz – Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany – 9 babies, flower pots
2006 Gertraud Arzberger – Graz, Austria – 4 own babies
2006 Jolanta K. – Lublin, Poland – 5 newborns
2007 “Susann F.” – Plauen, Germany – 3 own children
2007 Céline Lesage – Valognes, France – 6 newborns
2007 Shirley Winters – Syracuse, NY – 2 babies + 5 other babies suspected
2007 Monika Halbe – Wenden, Germany – 3 babies, freezer
2009 Veronique Courjault – Tours, France – 3 own babies
2009 “Ota Ward Tokyo Serial Killer Mother” – Ota Ward, Tokyo, Japan – 4 babies
2010 Meredith Katharine Borowiec – Calgary, Canada; 3 newborns, 1 survived
2010 Dominique Cottrez – Villers-au-Tertre, France – 8 own babies
2010 “Geleen Serial Killer Mother” – Geleen, Netherlands – 3 newborns
2010 Michele Kalina – Reading, Pa. – 5 newborns
2010 Sietske Hoekstra– Nij Beets, Friesland, Netherlands – 4 newborns
2010 Bernadette Quirk – St. Helens, Merseyside, Eng. – 4 babies, claimed “stillborn”
2012 Annika H.– Husum (greater Flensburg), Germany – 5 babies
2012 Beata Z. – Hipolitowo, Poland – 5 own babies
2013 Audrey C. – Ain, Lyon, Ambérieu, France – 3 newborns
2013 Lucyna D. – Lubawa, Poland – 3 newborns
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For more cases of this type, see Serial Baby-Killer Moms.