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Cops Discover An Evil Mother s Body Collection · Weird Darkness:True crime & The unexplained

• 0:11
  Speaker 1: Pleasant Grove Police received this chilling 911 call. Upon arrival,
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: they met Darren West, who was visibly shaken after speaking
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: with his wife, Megan Huntsman, about the grim discoveries in
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  Speaker 1: his garage.
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  Speaker 2: And I just said, what the hell is this? What
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  Speaker 2: have you done?
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  Speaker 1: As they stepped into the garage, they had no idea
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  Speaker 1: the horrors that awaited them inside.
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  Speaker 3: I remember there being some form of tape. As we
• 0:42
  Speaker 3: got deeper into that box, we'd find a second child.
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  Speaker 4: There could be more. Like I said, I can't remember
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  Speaker 4: a damn thing.
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  Speaker 2: How many do you think there would be?
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  Speaker 5: Holy s * * *.
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  Speaker 2: What is going on?
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  Speaker 1: On April 12, 2014, Darren had just returned home after
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: serving time in prison for drug charges, only to stumble
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  Speaker 1: upon a horrifying scene in his garage and made this
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  Speaker 1: disturbing 911 call.
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  Speaker 6: Pleasant Grove Police.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, ma'am. Can I have an officer come to
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  Speaker 2: this address?
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  Speaker 7: And your name?
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  Speaker 8: My name's Darren West.
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  Speaker 2: I just found something in my garage. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: a miscarriage.
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  Speaker 9: Can you be more specific? What do you mean by
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  Speaker 9: a miscarriage you found?
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  Speaker 6: I have no idea.
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  Speaker 2: Just police and an officer up here.
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  Speaker 3: That sounds like you may need medical.
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  Speaker 9: It's been wrapped up in a plastic magnet.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, what is it?
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  Speaker 9: It's a little baby.
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  Speaker 1: When police arrived at Pleasant Grove, Utah, they saw the
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  Speaker 1: garage door wide open, and Darren stood outside with his family,
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  Speaker 1: who had come to help him move in. Just one
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  Speaker 1: look at him. and the officers knew they were in
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  Speaker 1: for something dreadful.
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  Speaker 2: Who lives here? That's three. One, two, three? It's a
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  Speaker 2: double house. The basement and upstairs are two different parts.
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  Speaker 2: My two daughters live here. See, we've been cleaning the garage.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And I've got a 48-hour.
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  Speaker 1: Pass, and I have.
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  Speaker 4: Yes. We went on home combined.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I was in a halfway house.
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  Speaker 1: The box in question was an ordinary-looking fruit box sitting
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  Speaker 1: just outside the garage, and its exterior was tightly sealed
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  Speaker 1: with electrical tape. Inside, they found a bag, also wrapped
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  Speaker 1: in layer upon layer of duct tape, as if someone
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  Speaker 1: desperately wanted to keep whatever was inside, hidden forever. When
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  Speaker 1: the investigators finally peeled it open... What they discovered would
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  Speaker 1: haunt them for years to come. It was the lifeless
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  Speaker 1: body of a fully decomposed baby.
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  Speaker 3: There were boxes from floor to ceiling on all three walls.
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  Speaker 3: There's hundreds of boxes. How are we going to get
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  Speaker 3: through all of these? We contacted the medical examiner's office,
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  Speaker 3: and they sent out an investigator. Bewilderment, shock, I was speechless.
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  Speaker 3: How could you fathom something like that? The big obvious
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  Speaker 3: question is, what is this child doing here? Who's the mother?
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  Speaker 3: Where did it come from?
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  Speaker 1: The officers quickly sealed off the scene, unsure of what
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  Speaker 1: had truly happened. But one thing was clear. It was
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  Speaker 1: now a homicide investigation. They began searching the area, moving
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  Speaker 1: from box to box, not knowing that what they had
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  Speaker 1: just uncovered was just the beginning of a much darker
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  Speaker 1: and more chilling story. But the question was, where was Megan?
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  Speaker 1: Right now, she was the only person who could hold
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  Speaker 1: the answers to this troubling mystery.
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  Speaker 8: Let's start off with, is it your wife or is
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  Speaker 8: it your girlfriend?
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  Speaker 2: I'm still married to her, but.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, so legally, according to the law, it's still your wife.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, why don't you tell me what her name is?
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  Speaker 2: Megan Huntsman.
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  Speaker 5: What happened is when I went to prison, she stuck
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  Speaker 5: around for two or three years and she took off.
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  Speaker 2: But she is with a boyfriend now. Where is she?
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  Speaker 4: In West Valley, some boyfriend.
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  Speaker 2: We just had her on the phone.
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  Speaker 4: She said it was his.
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  Speaker 2: And I just said, what the hell is this? What
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  Speaker 2: have you done? I go, we found something.
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  Speaker 4: She goes, oh, you did?
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  Speaker 8: Get that for her.
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  Speaker 4: Don't call the police. Don't call the police.
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  Speaker 2: Don't call the police. She said it was yours. Logically,
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  Speaker 2: is that true?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, man.
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  Speaker 2: I never knew she was pregnant.
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  Speaker 1: So, for the time being, the officers focused on Megan
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  Speaker 1: to understand about the unfolding events.
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  Speaker 8: Are you able to help us understand what's going on here?
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  Speaker 8: It was a miscarriage. How far into your pregnancy were you?
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  Speaker 8: How soon can you come down here? Our detectives need
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  Speaker 8: to ask you some follow-up questions so that we can
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  Speaker 8: rule out any kind of foul play. Okay, listen to me.
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  Speaker 8: I need you to stay at your residence. We're going
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  Speaker 8: to have a West Valley City officer come pick you up.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't just Darren who was disturbed. The neighbors had
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  Speaker 1: also noticed a strange, foul smell coming from the garage.
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  Speaker 1: As more officers arrived at the scene, they were tasked
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  Speaker 1: with meticulously searching every inch of the property of what
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  Speaker 1: was quickly becoming known as the House of Horror. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: Megan was brought in for questioning by Detective Beckstrom. His
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  Speaker 1: first goal was to understand why she had hidden the baby,
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  Speaker 1: instead of reporting it to the authorities or seeking medical help. However,
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  Speaker 1: in a few moments, the story took a turn more
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  Speaker 1: twisted than ever.
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  Speaker 10: Well, you know why we're here, what we're here to
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  Speaker 10: talk about. Just start at the beginning and tell me
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  Speaker 10: what happened.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we were doing drugs a lot. That's what he
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  Speaker 4: was in prison for. I got pregnant right before he left.
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  Speaker 4: And I really didn't know because I thought it was
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  Speaker 4: just stress and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And you went to prison in 2006? Yeah. How far
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  Speaker 2: along were you in here?
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  Speaker 4: A couple months.
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  Speaker 2: Where did you have the baby?
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  Speaker 4: In the house, in the bathroom.
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  Speaker 10: In the house that you and Darren went to?
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  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Describe to me what happened.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I was having a lot of pain that day.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't go to work. My kids were at school,
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  Speaker 4: and I went in the bathroom, and I just sat
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  Speaker 4: there and went... I just pushed really hard and came
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  Speaker 4: out of the blue and wasn't crying. I was by
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  Speaker 4: myself and I didn't know what to do. I couldn't
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  Speaker 4: get into crying or anything.
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  Speaker 2: Then what happened?
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  Speaker 4: I got scared and I wrapped it up. Not being
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  Speaker 4: smart and calling you guys. I was in shock. It
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  Speaker 4: was stupid of me to do it.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean when you say you wrapped it up?
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  Speaker 4: You remember me?
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  Speaker 1: Megan repeated the same story she had told Darren, that
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  Speaker 1: the baby had been a stillborn. Despite appearing visibly upset,
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  Speaker 1: there were many details in Megan's account that just didn't
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  Speaker 1: add up.
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  Speaker 2: You're on the toilet, you have the baby. You said
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  Speaker 2: you tried to get it to breathe. What did you do?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I tried just to clean his mouth out and stuff,
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  Speaker 4: and I couldn't get a response at all.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. I couldn't feel a heartbeat or anything. Okay. So
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  Speaker 2: you cleaned the baby's mouth up, tried to get it
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  Speaker 2: to breathe, and then what?
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  Speaker 4: It passed out for a little bit. I think I
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  Speaker 4: lost a lot of blood.
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  Speaker 2: And then when my kids got home from school, I
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  Speaker 2: just told them I wasn't feeling no more.
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  Speaker 4: And then I cleaned myself up, and I went and
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  Speaker 4: got a box.
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  Speaker 9: And then... As far as you know, unless someone else
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  Speaker 9: moved it, the baby's been in the box in the
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  Speaker 9: garage since that first year that Darren went to prison.
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  Speaker 11: Yes. Great.
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  Speaker 4: We clean that garage every year, so.
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  Speaker 2: Were you worried somebody else would find it when you
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  Speaker 2: guys were cleaning the garage?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And so what would you do to make sure that
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  Speaker 2: didn't happen?
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  Speaker 4: Just kind of slide it and, like, sweep around, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and then set stuff on it and, you know. Well,
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  Speaker 4: they knew that part was already clean and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Megan's story seemed like a justification. With her husband gone
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  Speaker 1: to prison, she was left overwhelmed with stress and was
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  Speaker 1: deeply influenced by drugs which clouded her state of mind.
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  Speaker 1: But the more the detective spoke with her, the more
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  Speaker 1: their doubts grew.
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  Speaker 4: I was so scared, you know? I don't know what
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  Speaker 4: I was thinking. I have no idea.
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember if the baby was a boy or
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  Speaker 2: a girl? So, did anyone know that you were pregnant?
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  Speaker 4: I don't show at all.
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  Speaker 2: Did you tell Darren?
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Had you ever had any stillborn babies prior to that?
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  Speaker 2: And on these miscarriages, did they all happen at home?
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  Speaker 2: All right. Is there anything else that you think I
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  Speaker 2: should have asked you that I haven't asked you? Is
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  Speaker 2: there anything else that you want me to know?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: And we really want.
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  Speaker 9: the right thing for this baby, a proper burial and
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  Speaker 9: closure for you and for your family.
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  Speaker 2: Your husband went to prison, you're raising the kids on
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  Speaker 2: your own, and you're overwhelmed. And I can understand that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Darren just found out that he had another kid.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think proper closure looks like? Anything else?
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  Speaker 9: Well, it's clear that we think you should go to
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  Speaker 9: jail for this, that you recognize you've done something wrong.
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  Speaker 10: We haven't made any decisions like that. We're still just
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  Speaker 10: trying to put the story together at this point.
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  Speaker 1: Was Megan's fear of going to jail if the baby
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  Speaker 1: was truly a stillborn. If no crime had been committed,
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  Speaker 1: aside from the unlawful disposal of the body, why did
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  Speaker 1: she carry such a heavy guilt? There was something deeper
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  Speaker 1: she wasn't saying, and the detective could feel it. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: at the house, the officers pressed on with their search,
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  Speaker 1: which led them to another suspicious box. Inside, they uncovered
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  Speaker 1: a deeply disturbing scene. That was just the start.
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  Speaker 3: I remember there being some form of tape over it.
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  Speaker 3: And then as we opened it up, there's heavy padding
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  Speaker 3: and packaging, more plastic wrap. As we got deeper into
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  Speaker 3: that box, we did ultimately find a second child. I
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  Speaker 3: felt angry. And I remember thinking, what in the actual
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  Speaker 3: hell is going on?
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  Speaker 1: Each box they opened carried an overpowering stench. with a
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  Speaker 1: strange liquid seeping through the bottom of the bags inside.
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  Speaker 1: The officers immediately reported it to Detective Beckstrom, who confronted
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  Speaker 1: Megan in hopes to get answers, but nothing could have
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  Speaker 1: prepared him for her response.
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  Speaker 9: We have investigators in the house right now. They found
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  Speaker 9: a second baby. Will you please tell me about that?
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  Speaker 4: There is.
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  Speaker 2: There's more.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, I'm sorry. I have hit every one of them,
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  Speaker 4: and he had to have known I was pregnant through.
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  Speaker 2: Most of them. There's others? How many? When?
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  Speaker 1: Megan had a long history of drug abuse, particularly methamphetamine,
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  Speaker 1: and was known to drink heavily as well. These addictions
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  Speaker 1: had ruined her ability to make rational decisions, but they
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  Speaker 1: were no excuse for taking a life. Despite her claims
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  Speaker 1: it was clear she was still hiding something, a truth
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  Speaker 1: so gruesome which would shake everyone to the core.
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  Speaker 9: If it's easier for you to remember, if we want
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  Speaker 9: to start after you had your first child, when you
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  Speaker 9: had the first miscarriage.
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  Speaker 3: One.
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  Speaker 4: right after I moved in. I can't even remember. I
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  Speaker 4: remember when I had the child. They were all stillborn.
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  Speaker 4: Every one of them.
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  Speaker 2: Were they full-term?
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  Speaker 4: No, without me.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so... How many do you think will we find
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  Speaker 2: in the garage?
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  Speaker 4: Four.
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  Speaker 2: Did you put all four in the garage?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Did you keep them in the same place.
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  Speaker 4: In the garage?
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  Speaker 2: What did you.
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  Speaker 4: It's covered. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And so all four boxes are in the same place?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to be able to.
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  Speaker 10: Relay to the detectives what they're going to find.
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  Speaker 2: And so all four... Yes. And are in the cabinet
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  Speaker 2: in the garage?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Why didn't you call for help? I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I'm afraid people know I'm pregnant.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is Utah. It's not common for people
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  Speaker 2: to have a lot of kids.
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  Speaker 4: No, I think I was young because I was so young.
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  Speaker 2: Several years later, though, when you let this happen, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you're not so young.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 4: But like I said, the drugs, they seriously, they mess
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  Speaker 4: with me.
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  Speaker 3: Bad.
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  Speaker 2: So you're telling me that because you were on drugs,
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: you weren't making good decisions?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Does it feel better to tell the truth?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: All right. I'll talk to you about it.
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  Speaker 1: After hearing that more bodies were hidden in the garage,
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  Speaker 1: Detective Beckstrom quickly contacted the officers on the scene. Over
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  Speaker 1: 20 to 30 officers combed through every inch of the house,
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  Speaker 1: searching for hours. And while the investigation continued, so did
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  Speaker 1: the interrogation.
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  Speaker 2: We've talked about it a lot. I don't know yet.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't made those decisions because we're in search warrants still.
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  Speaker 10: Because of the seriousness of this, they are also going
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  Speaker 10: to obtain a search warrant for your house in West Alley.
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  Speaker 10: Is there anything in that house that we need to
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  Speaker 10: know about before we go up there?
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  Speaker 4: For me, no. All that's up there is my clothes. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So you have the babies and then the girls the
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  Speaker 2: whole time?
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  Speaker 4: I never moved them or anything. But yeah, they've been
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  Speaker 4: in the garage all the time.
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  Speaker 2: So we're talking eight years ago.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you told me earlier that.
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  Speaker 9: You put the boxes with the babies in them in
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  Speaker 9: the cabinet. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Did you ever take them out of that cabinet?
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  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 2: I imagine in the last nine years, stuff's been in
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  Speaker 2: and out of the cupboard.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't think so because I was just there a
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  Speaker 4: month or so ago getting my bed and stuff out
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  Speaker 4: of there, and I've seen.
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  Speaker 2: It sitting there.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 10: And so, did anyone in the world know that the
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  Speaker 10: baby was in the garage?
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 10: Well, they're saying one of the boxes was on a
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  Speaker 10: stack of shelves next to the cabinet.
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  Speaker 2: Why would it be there?
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  Speaker 4: Unless I moved it or something, but it's not thinking.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know when that might have been?
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  Speaker 4: Before I left, I did. I mean, I haven't been
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: in that house. Only once since I moved out.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: It was painfully evident that this case was far from straightforward.
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  Speaker 1: While it wasn't unheard of for a woman to hide
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: a pregnancy, but doing so multiple times raised serious doubts.
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  Speaker 1: The idea seemed almost impossible to believe, and as the
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  Speaker 1: detectives pieced things together, a chilling realization began to take shape.
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  Speaker 2: I want to make sure that there's no more weight
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  Speaker 2: on your shoulders, okay? When you have these babies.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Um.
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  Speaker 9: You said after they were born and they were blue
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  Speaker 9: and you were trying to get them to breathe, what
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  Speaker 9: would you do to try to get them to breathe?
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes I was so scared, you know?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry, you like shake them, sorry. Like that.
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  Speaker 2: Did you have like the suction cup they used to
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  Speaker 2: clean out their mouths?
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  Speaker 4: You described you had the one in the tub.
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  Speaker 2: That you'd fill the tub and have it? Yeah, I can't, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Was that baby alive when it was born? I think
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  Speaker 2: it was.
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  Speaker 4: For a short time. What happened? Well, you think if
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  Speaker 4: I have baby in the house, it just cries, you know? Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you say you think it was for a short time.
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  Speaker 2: Was it moving? Did it start to breathe?
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  Speaker 4: No, it wasn't breathing. I could see a little heartbeat and.
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  Speaker 2: Then it stopped.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. For about how long?
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  Speaker 4: About three and a half. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: The one that you had when he was in prison,
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  Speaker 2: that you were on the toilet. Was that one alive
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  Speaker 2: when it was born?
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Where were the other two born?
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  Speaker 4: The one on the bed. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: The one on the bed when it was born? Do
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  Speaker 2: you think it might have been alive for a short
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: time as well? Yeah.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Detective Beckstrom was left stunned when Megan finally admitted the unthinkable.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: It wasn't an accident, but actual murders. So now he
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: asked her the final make-or-break question.
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  Speaker 2: Did you kill the baby after I was born? What
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: we need is the truth. Which one?
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  Speaker 4: No, I was just so scared. I was so drunk,
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  Speaker 4: so bad. I just.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: How did you choke him?
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  Speaker 3: Again.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: Do you think all four of these babies were alive.
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: When they were born? I'm pretty sure one of them wasn't.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: And did you choke the others?
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: Yes, I did.
• 18:20
  Speaker 9: And you put them in a towel, put them in
• 18:22
  Speaker 9: garbage bags, and then put them in a box and
• 18:24
  Speaker 9: put them in the garage?
• 18:24
  Speaker 11: Yes.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: So one was dead when it was born and the
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: other three you choked? And why did you choke them?
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: Scared. I was in shock.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Have you ever told anyone this?
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: No one's ever told us all.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: So when we run DNA tests, will they all be Darren's? Yes,
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: they will. Is there anything else we need to know about?
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: No. All right.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: As the detective left the room, he could barely contain
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: the emotions that overwhelmed him. It had been the hardest
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: interrogation of his career.
• 19:04
  Speaker 11: Once I'm out of her sight, my hands went to
• 19:06
  Speaker 11: my knees, and I had to take several breaths to
• 19:09
  Speaker 11: really process.
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: Holy.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: She had killed these babies.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Back at the crime scene, the officers had been searching
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: the garage for over three hours, and the unease they
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: felt couldn't be measured. No one could have predicted what
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: other surprises lay in store for them.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: This was probably one of the longest days in my career.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: It was emotionally... straining, physically exhausting. And the feeling in
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: the air was dread, but also determination to find out
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: what in the hell actually had happened. Eventually we found
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: baby number three.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: It didn't take long before the officers found the third body,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: packed tightly in a box and sealed with layers of
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: duct tape. When they carefully opened it, they found the
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: body to be wrapped in a plastic bag and covered
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: in vinyl. As their search continued, they uncovered a fourth body,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: followed by a fifth, hidden under two blankets and two
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: bath tiles in the bottom left corner of a cubby,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: But just when they thought they had seen it all,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: the biggest shock was still about to come.
• 20:15
  Speaker 11: I'm told that there is a fifth baby found at
• 20:17
  Speaker 11: the home. Now it's becoming almost exhausting. How many could
• 20:22
  Speaker 11: there be? And what is going on?
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: All right, Megan, I'm really happy.
• 20:33
  Speaker 9: With how far you've come, but I'm concerned that you
• 20:36
  Speaker 9: haven't told me everything.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: How many do you think there possibly could be?
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: Honestly, I don't know how many. Four I can think of,
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: but I don't.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Okay. They are up to five.
• 20:50
  Speaker 10: And so now that there's five, are you still only
• 20:54
  Speaker 10: certain that one of them was dead when it was born?
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: And so the other four were alive?
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: There could be more. Like I said, I can't remember
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: a damn thing.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: How many do you think there would be?
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: I'd say eight or nine.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: When they're done searching the garage, they are going to
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: search the rest of the house. What do they find anymore?
• 21:20
  Speaker 11: No.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: So it could be eight or nine?
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it could be. But I know there's no more
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: than that. And I know there's none in the house.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: I mean, if you had to smell them, they're in
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: the house.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 21:32
  Speaker 10: Did the smell from the garage ever come in the house?
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: No. It would just be out in the garage.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: People said it was some smell, you know, like in
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: the heat of the summer. We had cats and stuff and,
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: you know, and I just, I think it was always
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: just playing dumb now.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Did you just leave it open?
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: And you're saying Darren never knew?
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: No, when I told you, only me. I've kept this
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: to myself for 18 years.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: So I'm the only person that you've ever told? Yes.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: The numbers kept growing, but the officers knew they had
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: to proceed with caution. The line of questioning soon shifted
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: as Detective Beckstrom began to consider Darren's possible involvement due
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: to something Megan had said earlier during the interrogation that
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: had caught his attention.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: When I talked to you earlier, you mentioned that Darren
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: should have known. What do you mean by that? Did
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: you tell her?
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: No. I don't know why. I think my mind was
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: just so out of it, you know? I didn't even,
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: all I focused on was the next fix. But how
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: can you not know? How can you sleep with someone
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: every night and not know that?
• 22:44
  Speaker 9: When we're talking about Darren knowing that you were pregnant
• 22:47
  Speaker 9: because he's in your bed, those are miscarriages.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: So did you just tell him that you miscarried? Yeah. Okay.
• 22:56
  Speaker 9: And so when you told him that it was a miscarriage,
• 22:59
  Speaker 9: he never asked what you did with the.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Miscarriage?
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: It was hard to believe that Darren had simply stumbled
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: upon the body in his garage without any clue where
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: it could have come from. Could he have known more
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: than he was letting on? Meanwhile, back at the crime scene,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: officers made another grim discovery. The sixth and seventh bodies
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: wrapped in sweaters and stuffed into a box inside a cabinet.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: It was a moment that left everyone reeling, but they
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: still pressed on to determine if there were more than seven.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: They even searched Megan's former home in West Valley. leaving
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: no stone unturned. While they found no additional bodies, they
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: did uncover Xanax, marijuana, and drug paraphernalia, painting a bleak
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: picture of her life. Megan Huntsman was arrested and booked
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: into the Utah County Jail on six counts of murder. However,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: the case was far from complete. Still, there were pieces
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: of the puzzle that didn't quite fit, and to fill
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: in the gaps, investigators brought Darren in for questioning.
• 24:01
  Speaker 10: I'm just like, I'm damned extra much, so I'm trying
• 24:02
  Speaker 10: to talk to everybody and make sure I know that
• 24:04
  Speaker 10: it's been.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: A horrible day for a lot of you. So you're
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: not in trouble right now. I'm just trying to understand
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: everything that's happened.
• 24:15
  Speaker 10: So she's saying that that baby was a miscarriage after
• 24:20
  Speaker 10: it went in prison.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: That's what she told me. Is that what she's still saying?
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: We did go search one in the house, and there's
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: more than one. And so, how many times was your
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: wife pregnant? I have three daughters. And I know of
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: one other time that she had a miscarriage.
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: I never even knew she was pregnant with two of
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: my daughters until she was.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: About four or five months along. And then she told me,
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: you know, I don't know. There's... How many was there?
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: There was seven. You are kidding me.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: I'm not.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: She said that the first one was shortly after you
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: moved into the house.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: Oh, my God.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: And that the last one, she was pregnant by you
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: before you went to prison. Wait, so she says they're
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: all mine? That's what she says. And that's why I'm
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: glad you're here, because....
• 25:30
  Speaker 9: I would have thought that if she was pregnant seven
• 25:32
  Speaker 9: times in the ten-year.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Period that you lived in that house, that surely you
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: would have known. Holy....
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Darren was visibly shaken by the disturbing revelations. He buried
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: his face in his hands and began to sob as
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: the weight of the situation hit him hard. But despite
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: his tears, there was more he needed to explain.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: You said you knew that she was pregnant once. Are
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: you talking about one other time than the miscarriage or
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: are you talking about something else? I just, that's the
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: only time I know.
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: I was so messed up on freaking drugs and I
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: don't know what was going on.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: I can tell that you know about more than the
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: way you're telling me.
• 26:21
  Speaker 10: Megan hid pregnancies from everybody until shortly before she had kids.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: But you're saying that she told you when she was
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: four months.
• 26:29
  Speaker 9: Along I believe that you knew about these pregnancies.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: I swear to God I never knew about these pregnancies.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: What's happened here is tragic. But I don't think that
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: you killed these babies and hit them. I think that
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: you were married to a woman who was going to
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: do it her way.
• 26:56
  Speaker 10: And you were done fighting with her, and so you
• 26:59
  Speaker 10: allowed her to make these decisions.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Is that what happened?
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: I never would think that she would put babies in
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: a box and freaking... So what did you think she
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: was doing with these pregnancies? I didn't realize she was
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: pregnant seven freaking times.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: I'm a married man. You know your wife's pregnant.
• 27:26
  Speaker 9: And so she's telling me that the only one that
• 27:31
  Speaker 9: you weren't around for.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Is when you went to prison.
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: Honestly, God, I didn't know that there were seven babies
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: in my garage.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: I never knew there was one in there. Do you
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: think I would have gone out and cleaned the garage
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: and then, you know what I mean? I understand where
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: you're coming from.
• 27:47
  Speaker 10: I'm not saying you knew they were in the garage,
• 27:50
  Speaker 10: but I'm saying you had to know that they were
• 27:51
  Speaker 10: brought into the world.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Even though Darren claimed he had no idea about the pregnancies,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: the detective wasn't ready to accept it at face value.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Your wife has admitted to some crimes, some horrible things.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: She admits that she killed someone after they were born.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Like I said, she's being completely honest, but I really
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: wish you were too. What do you want me to say? I...
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: I didn't know she.
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: Was killing kids and I didn't know she was putting boxes.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know how they do it. I don't know
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: how she could give birth and then... I don't know.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: Were you there when any of these were born?
• 28:41
  Speaker 7: No, sir.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: No, sir.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: I swear.
• 28:47
  Speaker 9: What we want to do is we want to do
• 28:49
  Speaker 9: what's right and we want to have closure for these children.
• 28:52
  Speaker 7: We want to have closure for your kids that are alive.
• 28:56
  Speaker 7: For these babies' grandparents. I mean, these babies were in
• 29:03
  Speaker 7: a garage for years.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: I never knew that, no. I never knew that.
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: I don't want to say nothing else. This is looking bad.
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: I had no idea that she was... Killing kids and
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: putting them in boxes. I swear to God.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Okay. But I want an attorney, though. Wouldn't you? I
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: can't give you that advice. I'm not in your situation,
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: and I don't think I ever will be.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: No, you won't.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: So....
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 29:38
  Speaker 10: All right, hold on just a second.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Although Darren seemed like a potential suspect in the case,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: there was no evidence to link him to the murders. Eventually,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Darren requested an attorney, bringing the interrogation to an abrupt end.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: What worked in his favor was a simple but strong point.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: If he had known about the bodies in the garage,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: It was unlikely he would have started cleaning it so
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: soon after his release from prison. Darren was released from custody,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: and the investigation moved forward with Megan still behind bars.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: All the evidence collected from the garage, including the boxes,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: plastic bags, and layers of duct tape, was sent to
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: the lab for analysis, and the results were conclusive. Every
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: single fingerprint belonged to Megan. Not a trace of Darren's
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: prints was found on any of the items. With this,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: the focus shifted to the medical examiner, where DNA testing
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: was conducted to confirm the father of the babies. The
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: results were as expected. Darren was the biological father of
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: all seven children. However, one heartbreaking fact remained clear. During
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: their entire ten years of living together, and even after
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: he went to prison in 2006, Darren had no idea
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: he had fathered seven children. Megan had hidden everything from
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: him and everyone else. It was now time for the
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: final decision.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: Justice for six babies killed right after birth by their
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: own mother as she pleads guilty to six counts of murder.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: And the judge gave her the maximum sentence that could
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: keep her locked up for the rest of her life.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: On February 12, 2015, Megan was formally charged with six
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: counts of first-degree murder. Having admitted to killing six of
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: her children while claiming one was stillborn, she was sentenced
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: to six terms of five years to life. to be
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: served consecutively, which meant she would spend the rest of
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: her life in prison. The case left everyone involved deeply shaken.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: It was incomprehensible how a mother could commit such horrific acts.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: It also highlighted the devastating impact of drugs, which had
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: completely destroyed Megan's mental health and led her down this
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: dark and tragic path.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: Megan had a family that she was raising But on
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: the flip side of that coin, she also had seven
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: dead children in her garage that she had murdered. I
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: don't know what her motive was. I don't care what
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: her motive was. But the fact of the matter is,
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: is she did it. And that was unfathomable to me.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on this case? Was it just
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: drugs which led to Megan killing her children? Or were
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: there some other dark motives? How did Darren not know
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: anything about his wife's pregnancies after living together for 10 years?
• 32:24
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• 32:34
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