BLACKSTONE, Mass. — A woman who lived in a squalid, vermin-infested home where the bodies of three infants were found was charged Friday with covering up the deaths, while neighbors said they wish they had acted themselves to call attention to the house with the foul smell and the shades that were always drawn.
Erika Murray, 31, was arraigned on charges including fetal death concealment, witness intimidation and permitting substantial injury to a child.
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In Blackstone, a town of less than 10,000 near the Rhode Island border about 50 miles southwest of Boston, residents fretted that such horrors had gone unnoticed.
“I think everyone in town is feeling a little of that today,” said Sarah Martin, 29, who often walked by the home with her own 2-year-old daughter but did not know the family. “When something so tragic and heart-wrenching happens, you look back and say, ‘Maybe there were clues I could have picked up on.’”
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Neighbors said the shades were always drawn; some had noticed a foul smell. A prosecutor said that soiled diapers were piled up 2 feet high and that the remains of several animals had also been found.
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Based on interviews with the two older children, police got a search warrant and went back to the house. That’s when they found the remains of three babies, one in a closet on Wednesday and two others on Thursday. A medical examiner is determining whether they were newborns or fetuses.
There was also a man living in the house, and Connolly said he has not been charged with anything.
Hey! Gallitzin, Pennsylvania: Ever do any of that stuff, that "soul-search" stuff? Five babies, one old enough to take his first steps murdered over a ten-year period, right there, in that house, right down the street from You, right across from You, and You and YOU! Murdered by your life-long neighbor, Stella Elizabeth Williamson, and you never heard, or saw anything? Really?
I don't believe you, Gallitzin.
I left you a rose only because You was a very unhappy lady as you was growing up.May your spirit rest knowing what you did to those poor babies.
- annie
Added: Sep. 4, 2010
Uh, I don't know, Williamson's spirit at rest? Knowing what she did? Doesn't seem right. Doesn't seem right that a person who did what she did and hid what she hid--It doesn't seem right that that spirit should rest, does it? That would mean she got away with it. Erika Murray didn't get away with it.
Your spirit at rest "Annie?" Yours, Gallitzin?
Soul-searching. Seeking the soul. That's what normal people, people with consciences, that's what they do.
Or have done to them if they won't do it themselves.
We'll see you around, Gallitzin. Here's my card in case we run into each other again. Take this too, sort of a letter of introduction of me from a Chinese woman, name of "Song Binbin."
Five babies...Wow. Talk about having skeletons in your closet! You had five real babies skeletons
in your attic, Gallitzin! Didn't know nothin', huh?
We'll see you around, Gallitzin.
I don't believe you, Gallitzin.
I left you a rose only because You was a very unhappy lady as you was growing up.May your spirit rest knowing what you did to those poor babies.- annie
Added: Sep. 4, 2010
Uh, I don't know, Williamson's spirit at rest? Knowing what she did? Doesn't seem right. Doesn't seem right that a person who did what she did and hid what she hid--It doesn't seem right that that spirit should rest, does it? That would mean she got away with it. Erika Murray didn't get away with it.
Your spirit at rest "Annie?" Yours, Gallitzin?
Soul-searching. Seeking the soul. That's what normal people, people with consciences, that's what they do.
Or have done to them if they won't do it themselves.
We'll see you around, Gallitzin. Here's my card in case we run into each other again. Take this too, sort of a letter of introduction of me from a Chinese woman, name of "Song Binbin."
Five babies...Wow. Talk about having skeletons in your closet! You had five real babies skeletons
in your attic, Gallitzin! Didn't know nothin', huh?
We'll see you around, Gallitzin.
