March 17, 2011 Sacramento, California Ka Yang (29, pictured left) kills her daughter Mirabelle Thao-Lo by putting her in a microwave Paramedics responded to a 911 call made by Yang requesting help for her youngest child, 6-week-old Mirabelle. The infant had burns over 60% of her body, from head to toe, though her hair and…
Woman kills infant, leaves knife to stage scene as though baby had killed self
March 16, 2015 Cincinnati, Ohio De’asia Watkins (20) stabs and decapitates her 3-month-old baby Jayniah, leaving the knife in the baby’s hand to claim she had done it to herself Watkins had been both abused and neglected for the vast majority of her childhood, was placed in at least five different homes, used “no vocabulary”…
Infant born out of wedlock is thrown into a pond by the father
February 25, 1852 Faringdon, Oxfordshire, England Mary Westall (16) gives birth to a baby whose body is later rolled in a piece of carpet and thrown in a pond Westall had been a servant for saddle maker Christopher Maisey (33) for several years by the time she was impregnated by him. When Westall’s parents learned…
News clippings: woman smothers newborn twins; woman kills neighbor’s toddler and leaves the body on train tracks to be bisected
From The Chicago Tribune Published April 18, 1880 A 30-year-old "woman of ill-repute" was suspected of smothering her newborn twin children. She then threw one body in a river. The other was thrown in a hole on the river bank and covered with leaves. A young child was killed with blunt force trauma to her…
Father beats twin infants to death
April 13, 2008 Baraboo, Wisconsin David Yates kills his 5-week-old infant twins Yates, who was suffering from anxiety, had allegedly taken medication which boosted his serotonin levels. If such levels are too high, a person can experience serotonin syndrome, which was reportedly the reason behind the twins' murders. Symptoms of moderate serotonin intoxication can include…