Megan Huntsman, Utah Serial Baby-Killing Mom - 2014

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 21^st century “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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SEE: Female Serial Killers of the 21st Century: A Photo Gallery

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For more cases of this type, see Serial Baby-Killer Moms.

 

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