4 infants found dead when landlord cleaned out rental home - Sept 2025 - Ford City PA

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While the landlord was cleaning the home Saturday, he noticed a trash bag with a foul odor, the complaint said. South Buffalo police and the Armstrong County Coroner’s office responded and confirmed a dead infant was inside the bag, according to the complaint.

State troopers were called to assist in the investigation, the complaint said, and they located two totes in the attic, also finding two more dead infants.

Ford City woman charged after 3 dead infants found in rental home
 
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"The criminal complaint said that during a police interview, Mauthe described birthing the infants and placing them in the locations where they were found."

 
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Did no one in her life notice her pregnancies?
 
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Was there mental illness in play here? She had to have known that if she abandoned the property that the babies would be found and she would be caught.
 
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I think that sometimes the frustrations we encounter with cases like these is that we are trying to apply logic where it doesn't apply.
 
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uggh, this is reminiscent at first blush with Erika Murray Blackstone Case
 
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Did she have living children?
I found her mugshot and also a Facebook page that looks like her with the same age. It looks like she has two children and might be married and working. If she is still married and/or still working, you would think that someone would know that she was pregnant. I mean, it was three times. Very, very sad. Log into Facebook

JMO.
 

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The heck ,some of these cases just leave me speechless jmvho
 
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Sorry, but death penalty.
Of course it's Pennsylvania and nobody's been executed there in ages, although Death Row is full.
 
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Wouldn't it have been very difficult to give birth to 3 babies in one year (She says in the article tlcya linked that the first baby was born a year ago). Impossible for them all to have been full-term babies. And why did she keep getting pregnant? Surely whoever was getting her pregnant knew she was getting bigger.
 
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Wouldn't it have been very difficult to give birth to 3 babies in one year (She says in the article tlcya linked that the first baby was born a year ago). Impossible for them all to have been full-term babies. And why did she keep getting pregnant? Surely whoever was getting her pregnant knew she was getting bigger.
Impossible unless there were twins or seriously preterm infants.

Maybe it was meant the first one found by the homeowner and the others were born and killed earlier?

MOO
 
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Wouldn't it have been very difficult to give birth to 3 babies in one year (She says in the article tlcya linked that the first baby was born a year ago). Impossible for them all to have been full-term babies. And why did she keep getting pregnant? Surely whoever was getting her pregnant knew she was getting bigger.
I was thinking by "first" they were referring to the first deceased baby found (the one in the closet). I believe the other two bodies they located were in the the attic and their births probably predate the closet one :(
 
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I was thinking by "first" they were referring to the first deceased baby found (the one in the closet). I believe the other two bodies they located were in teh the attic and their births probably predate the closet one :(
Jinx, we had the same thought.
 
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Was she still married?
 
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Was she still married?
good question, I haven't seen any mention of a spouse in the articles or reference to the father of the infants at all.
 
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good question, I haven't seen any mention of a spouse in the articles or reference to the father of the infants at all.
There's what's obviously a wedding picture from about eight years ago on her Facebook, other than that, just pictures of what I assume are her living children, last one posted two years ago.

No indication in the article that anyone other than her was living at the apartment, it just says she was evicted, not a family was evicted.

MOO
 

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