Monstrous Mothers Who Killed Their Own Children
She Murdered Her Four Sons Only to Get Revenge Against Her Ex-Husband
On the evening of October 26, 1997, Susan Dianne Eubanks committed the unthinkable when she shot and killed her four children execution style at her home in California.
Brandon, Austin, Brigham, and Matthew were, 14, 7, 6, and 4 at the time of their deaths. She then turned the gun on herself, shooting herself in the stomach. Five days after the murders, Susan was charged with four counts of first degree murder. During her trial there were allegations of child abuse and talk of revenge against her ex- husband prior to the murders. After being convicted of four counts of first degree murder, Susan Eubanks was sentenced to the death penalty. At her sentencing a month later, she said that she loved her children but felt they would be better off dead. She said she killed her boys as a final act of love in an attempted murder-suicide.
At the sentencing, she said the factors that influenced her actions included alcoholic parents, depression, and poor mental- health treatment. The judge, however, decided that Eubanks' basic reason and motivation was her deep hatred against her ex-husband.
She Systematically Killed Her Newborn Children So Her Husband Wouldn't Leave Her
In March of 2013, a German court convicted a woman of manslaughter and sentenced her to ONLY nine years in prison for killing five of her newborn babies on different occasions. German authorities officially stated that the 28-year-old woman was systematically murdering her infants shortly after giving birth to them, either at home or in the woods, and hiding their bodies because she worried about her husband leaving her if she had any more children.
This was also the main reason she
wouldn't tell anyone about being pregnant, including her husband, who told police that he knew nothing about the pregnancies and was shocked that his wife managed to keep them secret. Police found the first infant's body dumped in a paper sorting station in 2006 about nine miles away from the town of Husum, where the woman lived. In 2007, the second child was found in a parking area off a regional highway, also about the same distance from Husum but in a different direction.
After reading news reports that DNA results had confirmed that the two children had the same parents, the woman then decided not to dispose the other bodies in public places. She hid the next three infants — whose existence authorities were unaware of until the woman's confession — in boxes in the basement of the building where she lived. The bodies have now been recovered and autopsies have been performed, but forensic experts have not yet been able to determine the causes or dates of their deaths.
On the evening of October 26, 1997, Susan Dianne Eubanks committed the unthinkable when she shot and killed her four children execution style at her home in California.
Brandon, Austin, Brigham, and Matthew were, 14, 7, 6, and 4 at the time of their deaths. She then turned the gun on herself, shooting herself in the stomach. Five days after the murders, Susan was charged with four counts of first degree murder. During her trial there were allegations of child abuse and talk of revenge against her ex- husband prior to the murders. After being convicted of four counts of first degree murder, Susan Eubanks was sentenced to the death penalty. At her sentencing a month later, she said that she loved her children but felt they would be better off dead. She said she killed her boys as a final act of love in an attempted murder-suicide.
At the sentencing, she said the factors that influenced her actions included alcoholic parents, depression, and poor mental- health treatment. The judge, however, decided that Eubanks' basic reason and motivation was her deep hatred against her ex-husband.
She Systematically Killed Her Newborn Children So Her Husband Wouldn't Leave Her
In March of 2013, a German court convicted a woman of manslaughter and sentenced her to ONLY nine years in prison for killing five of her newborn babies on different occasions. German authorities officially stated that the 28-year-old woman was systematically murdering her infants shortly after giving birth to them, either at home or in the woods, and hiding their bodies because she worried about her husband leaving her if she had any more children.
This was also the main reason she
wouldn't tell anyone about being pregnant, including her husband, who told police that he knew nothing about the pregnancies and was shocked that his wife managed to keep them secret. Police found the first infant's body dumped in a paper sorting station in 2006 about nine miles away from the town of Husum, where the woman lived. In 2007, the second child was found in a parking area off a regional highway, also about the same distance from Husum but in a different direction.
After reading news reports that DNA results had confirmed that the two children had the same parents, the woman then decided not to dispose the other bodies in public places. She hid the next three infants — whose existence authorities were unaware of until the woman's confession — in boxes in the basement of the building where she lived. The bodies have now been recovered and autopsies have been performed, but forensic experts have not yet been able to determine the causes or dates of their deaths.
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