In the first five years of Mary’s marriage to Joe, the couple had two children, Barbara and Joseph. In December that same year, Marybeth gave birth to a third child; they named her Jennifer. On January 3, 1972, Jennifer died in the Schenectady hospital from severe infection, which was diagnosed as meningitis. Later, on January 20, 1972, Marybeth took Joseph who was two years old to Ellis Hospital. She reported that he had some type of seizure. The child was kept under observation. The doctors couldn’t find anything wrong with him and sent him home. After a few hours, Marybeth returned to the ER with little Joey. This time, he was dead. She told doctors that she had placed him in bed and returned later to find him tangled in the sheets and his body was blue. His death was listed as "unknown" and no autopsy was performed. About 6 weeks later, Marybeth was back at the emergency room with her daughter, Barbara. Apparently the little girl had gone into convulsions. The doctors wanted the child to remain …show more content…
He was wrapped in a blanket and unconscious. Marybeth told the doctor that she could not wake Michael that morning and had no idea what was wrong.
On August 22, 1985, Marybeth, then 42, gave birth to her eighth child, Tami Lynne. Like all the other children in Marybeth's care, she was destined to have a short life.
Concerning Tami Lynne's death, Marybeth said that on the night of December 19, 1985, she put her daughter to sleep in her crib like she normally did. Tami Lynne was crying that night, she said, which annoyed her because it made her feel like an unfit mother. She said that she watched television for a while alone. When she returned to check on the baby, Marybeth discovered she wasn't breathing. She said she picked up the baby and made an attempt to revive her. But nothing worked. Then she woke her husband and called for an