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...court charged with suffocating all five of her children. Authorities accuse her of smothering three with pillows, one with a bath towel and another by pressing its face against her shoulder (the specifics are based on a confession that Hoyt has now recanted). Says District Attorney William Fitzpatrick of Onondaga, New York, who initiated the investigation of Hoyt: "We have brought to justice a killer who preyed on her own children...
...vague natural causes between 1972 and 1985. Doctors and friends suspected some rare genetic defect was to blame, even though one of the victims was an adopted son. (Tinning was finally convicted in 1986 of murdering her last child.) "We have prejudices about what killers look like," says D.A. Fitzpatrick, "and they don't look like nice middle-class moms from the suburbs who would do this for no reason...
Hoyt escaped suspicion for years. What finally led to her arrest was the two-decades-old medical article in Pediatrics. Fitzpatrick first read the paper eight years ago while preparing an infanticide case in order to familiarize himself with possible causes of SIDS. In the report, Dr. Alfred Steinschneider, now president of the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Institute in Atlanta, proposed that a genetic defect could cause prolonged apnea, or breaks in breathing during a baby's sleep, and lead to SIDS. He bolstered his thesis with detailed accounts of the death of five babies in one unidentified family. Medical...
...quality of Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham's work is terrific--this is a wonderful appointment for Harvard," says Associate Professor of History Ellen Fitzpatrick...
...their dogs. Rather than allow their children to play in yards, neighbors in one Uptown area banded together to build a walled compound. "Maybe it's like this everywhere, but sometimes I go from my alarm-locked home to my alarm-locked car to my alarmed office," says Bee Fitzpatrick, who runs an import store...