Utah Ex-Husband Discovers Wife Killed 6 Newborn Babies Over 10 Years, Stores Bodies In Garage
A 39-year-old Utah “woman from hell” admitted to the Provo court and pleaded guilty on Thursday to murdering her six newborn babies over 10 years. Darren West, her estranged husband, discovered the bodies of the dead babies stored in their garage and informed authorities.
The Los Angeles Times reports that Megan Huntsman strangled and suffocated the infants, wrapped them in towels and kept them in boxes that she hid in the garage. The six babies, born between 1996 and 2006, were the ones born alive, said Utah County Attorney Jeff Buhman.
Huntsman actually killed more and had lost count of the total number of her victims. West found a seventh body of an infant which was stillborn in the garage when he was cleaning it. The estranged couple still shares the same house in Pleasant Grove and are Mormons, reports AP
She has three daughters, ages 13 to 20, who are alive. While her guilty plea could cut her minimum sentence to five years for every baby she murdered, Buhman believes that Hunstman has nil chances of leaving prison.
The woman uses meth, which likely explains her bizarre behaviour. She said that she killed her babies because she does not want to take care of infants.
West is the biological father of the seven babies, according to DNA tests, but he is not a suspect. He was also involved in meth for which he was jailed over eight years in a federal prison. West discovered the dead babies after his release from detention.
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