1 00:00:01,917 --> 00:00:04,208 [tense music] 2 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,250 [tense music] 3 00:00:45,500 --> 00:00:48,000 [sirens wail] 4 00:00:49,875 --> 00:00:53,208 - The dispatcher came across the radio, she said that 5 00:00:53,208 --> 00:00:55,167 the complainant on the phone had just 6 00:00:55,167 --> 00:00:57,208 located a miscarriage 7 00:00:57,208 --> 00:00:59,542 of some sort, in a box. 8 00:00:59,542 --> 00:01:01,667 [tense music] 9 00:01:04,042 --> 00:01:07,208 When we pulled up to the home, there was a truck 10 00:01:07,208 --> 00:01:09,792 and a trailer parked there, like a utility trailer. 11 00:01:09,792 --> 00:01:12,208 And the garage door was open 12 00:01:12,208 --> 00:01:15,042 and it looked as if the family were 13 00:01:15,042 --> 00:01:16,708 just doing spring cleaning. 14 00:01:16,708 --> 00:01:20,042 A lot of boxes from the garage were out on the driveway. 15 00:01:21,208 --> 00:01:23,542 I made contact with Darren and the family. 16 00:01:23,542 --> 00:01:27,375 Darren seemed beside himself, kind of like 17 00:01:27,375 --> 00:01:30,708 he didn't know really what to do with what was occurring. 18 00:01:47,167 --> 00:01:49,875 - Darren told us he was in the process 19 00:01:49,875 --> 00:01:51,375 of being released from prison. 20 00:01:51,375 --> 00:01:55,042 He had his family there helping him prepare to move home. 21 00:01:55,042 --> 00:01:58,708 His parents owned the home and his sister 22 00:01:58,708 --> 00:02:01,667 and brother-in-law lived in the basement prior 23 00:02:01,667 --> 00:02:02,708 to going to prison. 24 00:02:02,708 --> 00:02:06,208 Darren, his wife, Megan, and their daughters 25 00:02:06,208 --> 00:02:07,500 lived in the home. 26 00:02:32,375 --> 00:02:37,458 - I immediately asked where the box in question was at. 27 00:02:37,458 --> 00:02:39,667 It was pointed towards the front of the garage. 28 00:02:39,667 --> 00:02:42,250 It was a fruit box, like an apple box. 29 00:02:42,250 --> 00:02:45,500 It had electrical tape wrapped around the outside of it. 30 00:02:45,500 --> 00:02:49,917 There was actually a box and then a bag close to it. 31 00:02:49,917 --> 00:02:54,208 Darren said that bag had been removed from the box. 32 00:02:54,208 --> 00:02:56,958 I remember looking inside the bag 33 00:02:56,958 --> 00:03:00,167 and noticing the double layers of bags. 34 00:03:00,167 --> 00:03:02,375 - [Dan] The garbage bags were also taped. 35 00:03:02,375 --> 00:03:04,750 And so when they had opened up the tape to see what was 36 00:03:04,750 --> 00:03:09,208 inside these bags, that's where they found a deceased baby. 37 00:03:11,917 --> 00:03:15,208 - It was obvious that it was in a stage of decomposition, 38 00:03:15,208 --> 00:03:18,208 but it looked like a human child. 39 00:03:18,208 --> 00:03:20,417 [ominous music] 40 00:03:20,417 --> 00:03:22,417 - Officers looked at the baby 41 00:03:22,417 --> 00:03:25,708 and speculated that it could be full term, 42 00:03:25,708 --> 00:03:29,500 but they didn't feel comfortable removing it from the bags 43 00:03:29,500 --> 00:03:31,792 and really examining it closely. 44 00:03:32,792 --> 00:03:35,375 - So we contacted the medical examiner's office 45 00:03:35,375 --> 00:03:37,917 and they sent out an investigator. 46 00:03:37,917 --> 00:03:41,042 Bewilderment, shock. 47 00:03:41,042 --> 00:03:43,042 I was speechless. 48 00:03:43,042 --> 00:03:45,292 How could you fathom something like that? 49 00:03:45,292 --> 00:03:47,042 The big obvious question is, 50 00:03:47,042 --> 00:03:48,375 what is this child doing here? 51 00:03:48,375 --> 00:03:51,542 Who's the mother, where did it come from? 52 00:03:51,542 --> 00:03:54,125 - We didn't know what was going on 53 00:03:54,125 --> 00:03:57,000 and when we seen all the policemen there, 54 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:58,750 we just thought someone was hurt. 55 00:03:58,750 --> 00:04:03,375 When they told us that they had found a dead baby 56 00:04:03,375 --> 00:04:08,458 in the box, we were in so much shock that we just 57 00:04:09,375 --> 00:04:10,958 couldn't believe it. 58 00:04:12,250 --> 00:04:14,000 - We shut the scene down. 59 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:16,583 It's not every day you find a deceased infant child wrapped 60 00:04:16,583 --> 00:04:19,417 in plastic in a box in your garage. 61 00:04:19,417 --> 00:04:22,917 So absolutely, we looked at it as suspicious. 62 00:04:22,917 --> 00:04:24,708 - It's a very somber mood. 63 00:04:24,708 --> 00:04:27,625 We don't know whether it is a homicide or not, 64 00:04:27,625 --> 00:04:31,042 but we're gonna investigate it as if it were. 65 00:04:31,042 --> 00:04:34,583 - We started going through the garage box by box. 66 00:04:36,875 --> 00:04:39,417 Try to see if there's anything that would suggest 67 00:04:39,417 --> 00:04:41,958 to us why this child was here. 68 00:04:41,958 --> 00:04:45,792 The state of the garage was extremely disheveled, 69 00:04:45,792 --> 00:04:47,458 very cluttered. 70 00:04:47,458 --> 00:04:51,708 There were boxes from floor to ceiling on all three walls, 71 00:04:51,708 --> 00:04:54,375 which there was a moment where I paused 72 00:04:54,375 --> 00:04:55,792 and looked around the garage 73 00:04:55,792 --> 00:04:57,958 and thought, there's hundreds of boxes, 74 00:04:57,958 --> 00:05:01,750 how are we gonna get through all of these in one day? 75 00:05:03,750 --> 00:05:07,583 - Darren relayed to the officers that he called Megan 76 00:05:07,583 --> 00:05:11,583 and Megan had told him that it was his baby that she had 77 00:05:11,583 --> 00:05:15,458 after he went to prison back in 2006. 78 00:05:41,875 --> 00:05:44,208 - We learned Megan and Darren were married 79 00:05:44,208 --> 00:05:45,958 for about 21 years 80 00:05:45,958 --> 00:05:49,375 and had several children over the course of their marriage. 81 00:05:49,375 --> 00:05:52,042 But Megan and Darren lived in the home together 82 00:05:52,042 --> 00:05:53,833 for quite a long time. 83 00:06:19,250 --> 00:06:21,125 - All the neighborhood was confused. 84 00:06:21,125 --> 00:06:23,000 It just seemed like a normal family. 85 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:24,958 They kept to themselves mostly 86 00:06:24,958 --> 00:06:29,667 and most of us couldn't believe, is this happening on our street? 87 00:06:29,667 --> 00:06:32,667 When it's such a quiet, peaceful families. 88 00:06:32,667 --> 00:06:35,042 It was so shocking to all of us. 89 00:06:35,042 --> 00:06:36,542 Poor Darren looked awful. 90 00:06:36,542 --> 00:06:39,917 Like, I don't believe what I just found. 91 00:06:39,917 --> 00:06:41,708 It just broke my heart. 92 00:06:43,583 --> 00:06:45,375 - That is not normal. 93 00:06:45,375 --> 00:06:50,083 So Officer Abegg called Megan on the phone and spoke with her. 94 00:07:31,583 --> 00:07:34,708 - We are trying to be sympathetic to her, 95 00:07:34,708 --> 00:07:36,500 but as police officers, we're tasked 96 00:07:36,500 --> 00:07:39,833 with investigating a crime and the reality was 97 00:07:39,833 --> 00:07:42,708 that she didn't properly dispose of a body. 98 00:07:42,708 --> 00:07:45,875 And so, were we looking at desecration of a body? 99 00:07:45,875 --> 00:07:48,958 We needed to find all the facts. 100 00:07:48,958 --> 00:07:51,042 [tense music] 101 00:08:05,875 --> 00:08:10,333 Going into the interview, my goal was to understand why 102 00:08:10,333 --> 00:08:15,958 a baby was hidden instead of having called the authorities, 103 00:08:15,958 --> 00:08:17,625 or gone to a doctor, 104 00:08:17,625 --> 00:08:21,500 or any of those other options that it seems that any 105 00:08:21,500 --> 00:08:23,125 of which would've been a better choice. 106 00:09:56,708 --> 00:09:58,542 - She seemed overwhelmed 107 00:09:58,542 --> 00:10:02,333 and I actually perceived the emotions as genuine. 108 00:10:02,333 --> 00:10:07,750 Next, I wanted to understand, did she want this baby to live? 109 00:10:07,750 --> 00:10:09,792 Did she make lifesaving efforts? 110 00:11:15,208 --> 00:11:18,542 - My perception was that this very well 111 00:11:18,542 --> 00:11:23,083 may just be a stillbirth and a terrible series of decisions. 112 00:11:23,083 --> 00:11:25,792 Her husband's in prison, she's alone. 113 00:11:25,792 --> 00:11:28,917 She has this baby at home, she's a single mother of three, 114 00:11:28,917 --> 00:11:34,500 and she saw it as the only way to handle the situation. 115 00:11:34,500 --> 00:11:37,375 But at the same time, she wasn't making a lot of eye contact 116 00:11:37,375 --> 00:11:40,083 and I did feel like she was withholding information 117 00:11:40,083 --> 00:11:42,292 and not being completely honest with me, 118 00:11:42,292 --> 00:11:43,417 and I didn't know why. 119 00:13:18,958 --> 00:13:21,167 [tense music] 120 00:13:38,875 --> 00:13:41,750 - I was trying to understand her mindset. 121 00:13:41,750 --> 00:13:46,042 So for her to say, "Proper closure is burial 122 00:13:46,042 --> 00:13:49,708 and me going to jail," that was the first indicator 123 00:13:49,708 --> 00:13:52,417 that her mindset could have been criminal. 124 00:13:54,792 --> 00:13:57,208 [ominous music] 125 00:14:03,167 --> 00:14:07,167 - I remember there being some sort of form of tape over it. 126 00:14:07,167 --> 00:14:10,000 And then as we opened it up, there's heavy padding 127 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:12,000 and packaging, more plastic wrap. 128 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:13,958 As we got deeper into that box, 129 00:14:13,958 --> 00:14:16,208 we did ultimately find a second child. 130 00:14:19,333 --> 00:14:21,208 I felt angry and... 131 00:14:23,958 --> 00:14:25,500 I remember thinking, 132 00:14:26,708 --> 00:14:28,583 what in the actual hell is going on? 133 00:14:30,042 --> 00:14:31,875 - The manner in which the babies were packaged 134 00:14:31,875 --> 00:14:33,500 created some suspicion that this might be 135 00:14:33,500 --> 00:14:35,292 more than just a stillborn baby. 136 00:14:35,292 --> 00:14:39,375 Concern was she was concealing a guilty conscience. 137 00:14:39,375 --> 00:14:42,375 And that's why she went to the extent that she did 138 00:14:42,375 --> 00:14:44,833 to conceal those babies in their location. 139 00:14:46,292 --> 00:14:47,833 [knocking] 140 00:14:53,292 --> 00:14:56,042 There was a knock at the door and it was an investigator 141 00:14:56,042 --> 00:14:57,875 who asked me to come out of the room. 142 00:14:57,875 --> 00:15:00,042 That investigator told me that 143 00:15:00,042 --> 00:15:01,875 while conducting the search warrant at the house, 144 00:15:01,875 --> 00:15:03,792 that they had found a second baby. 145 00:15:03,792 --> 00:15:06,375 [tense music] 146 00:15:06,375 --> 00:15:08,625 So when I came back into the room, 147 00:15:08,625 --> 00:15:11,042 I took a huge sigh, 148 00:15:11,042 --> 00:15:16,042 recognizing that if I showed emotion or judgment, 149 00:15:16,042 --> 00:15:18,208 it could shut Megan down. 150 00:15:18,208 --> 00:15:22,042 I wanted to ensure that she didn't feel like 151 00:15:22,042 --> 00:15:24,000 I was being critical or judgmental. 152 00:15:29,542 --> 00:15:31,875 [tense music] 153 00:16:03,375 --> 00:16:05,333 - I didn't think she was telling the truth 154 00:16:05,333 --> 00:16:07,250 about not being able to remember. 155 00:16:07,250 --> 00:16:10,042 But I continued a softer approach. 156 00:16:10,042 --> 00:16:13,125 I had to maintain this relationship of trust 157 00:16:13,125 --> 00:16:15,208 and not come across as skeptical. 158 00:18:28,708 --> 00:18:30,833 [somber music] 159 00:18:33,375 --> 00:18:35,875 - We had information come into us 160 00:18:35,875 --> 00:18:39,375 that there were a total of four children in that garage, 161 00:18:39,375 --> 00:18:40,792 which we had not found yet. 162 00:18:40,792 --> 00:18:43,833 But we knew that this was a bigger-scaled investigation 163 00:18:43,833 --> 00:18:45,458 than we initially thought. 164 00:18:45,458 --> 00:18:49,417 We had upwards of probably 20 or 30 people at the house 165 00:18:49,417 --> 00:18:52,083 going through every nook and cranny, 166 00:18:52,083 --> 00:18:54,417 closet, attics, basement, 167 00:18:54,417 --> 00:18:57,292 anywhere you could think of to hide anything. 168 00:18:57,292 --> 00:18:58,875 Something like this is not something 169 00:18:58,875 --> 00:19:00,500 you wanna make a mistake on. 170 00:19:06,875 --> 00:19:09,125 [tense music] 171 00:19:41,458 --> 00:19:43,458 Most people that I interrogate, 172 00:19:43,458 --> 00:19:45,458 I have probable cause that they've committed a crime 173 00:19:45,458 --> 00:19:47,292 or I know a lot of the answers. 174 00:19:47,292 --> 00:19:50,542 And in this case, I still wasn't certain 175 00:19:50,542 --> 00:19:52,958 whether everything she was telling me was true. 176 00:19:52,958 --> 00:19:58,208 It was a delicate balance between trying to recognize 177 00:19:58,208 --> 00:20:00,667 when she was withholding information, 178 00:20:00,667 --> 00:20:05,708 and whether that was intentional or a result of drug use, 179 00:20:05,708 --> 00:20:09,583 of passage of time, possibly mental illnesses. 180 00:21:13,875 --> 00:21:16,458 - At this point, because of the atmosphere in the room 181 00:21:16,458 --> 00:21:18,167 or the way that she was talking to me, 182 00:21:18,167 --> 00:21:20,167 I suspected they weren't all miscarriages 183 00:21:20,167 --> 00:21:21,833 or that they were all stillborn. 184 00:21:21,833 --> 00:21:26,292 I'm now thinking not only has she hidden these babies, 185 00:21:26,292 --> 00:21:28,833 but she hid the fact that they were born. 186 00:21:28,833 --> 00:21:31,750 That was the first moment that I felt 187 00:21:31,750 --> 00:21:34,875 that she may have ended these babies' lives. 188 00:21:34,875 --> 00:21:38,958 I do believe that having spent 90 minutes now 189 00:21:38,958 --> 00:21:43,417 establishing this trust and information eliciting, 190 00:21:43,417 --> 00:21:47,917 I continued that pattern and went for more details. 191 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:07,375 It didn't make sense. 192 00:23:07,375 --> 00:23:09,250 There was help available, 193 00:23:09,250 --> 00:23:11,333 that she didn't reach out to. 194 00:23:11,333 --> 00:23:14,417 If she wanted these babies to live, 195 00:23:14,417 --> 00:23:16,875 any other choice would have been better. 196 00:23:44,042 --> 00:23:46,167 [tense music] 197 00:23:48,542 --> 00:23:50,292 - I've never asked somebody 198 00:23:50,292 --> 00:23:52,375 if they've killed somebody before. 199 00:23:52,375 --> 00:23:55,583 But I took a several second pause. 200 00:23:55,583 --> 00:23:59,917 I knew that this was a make or break question, 201 00:23:59,917 --> 00:24:02,708 and that hesitation was actually me trying 202 00:24:02,708 --> 00:24:05,792 to decide if it was the right moment to ask it. 203 00:25:53,958 --> 00:25:57,208 I took a break because of the emotions that I was feeling. 204 00:25:57,208 --> 00:26:00,042 I was overwhelmed by the fact that a woman 205 00:26:00,042 --> 00:26:05,208 did something so unthinkable to her newborn babies. 206 00:26:06,333 --> 00:26:09,958 Once I'm out of her sight, my hands went to my knees 207 00:26:09,958 --> 00:26:12,917 and I had to take several breaths to really process. 208 00:26:14,583 --> 00:26:17,667 Holy (bleep), she had killed these babies. 209 00:26:20,542 --> 00:26:22,917 [tense music] 210 00:26:28,250 --> 00:26:30,625 - This was probably one of the longest days in my career. 211 00:26:30,625 --> 00:26:36,083 It was emotionally straining, 212 00:26:36,083 --> 00:26:38,125 physically exhausting. 213 00:26:38,125 --> 00:26:40,750 And the feeling in the air was dread, 214 00:26:40,750 --> 00:26:43,917 but also determination to find out 215 00:26:43,917 --> 00:26:46,583 what in the hell actually had happened. 216 00:26:48,167 --> 00:26:50,208 Eventually, we found baby number three. 217 00:26:50,208 --> 00:26:52,708 [ominous music] 218 00:26:52,708 --> 00:26:54,500 Baby number three was packaged 219 00:26:54,500 --> 00:26:56,542 a lot more tightly than the others. 220 00:26:56,542 --> 00:26:58,833 It was several layers worth of duct tape. 221 00:27:00,208 --> 00:27:02,000 Once we got the box open, 222 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,208 there was again the the plastic vinyl bag 223 00:27:05,208 --> 00:27:06,917 and my heart just sunk. 224 00:27:06,917 --> 00:27:11,375 And I thought, dear God, please no, not another one. 225 00:27:11,375 --> 00:27:13,708 [eerie music] 226 00:27:27,750 --> 00:27:31,083 - I'm told that there is a fifth baby found at the home. 227 00:27:31,083 --> 00:27:34,375 Now it's becoming almost exhausting. 228 00:27:34,375 --> 00:27:38,750 How many could there be, and what is going on? 229 00:28:31,208 --> 00:28:33,333 [tense music] 230 00:29:21,917 --> 00:29:24,167 - As I was talking to Megan, I'm starting to wonder, 231 00:29:24,167 --> 00:29:26,542 okay, well, how much Darren knew. 232 00:29:26,542 --> 00:29:30,417 I was aware that 233 00:29:30,417 --> 00:29:34,042 they didn't have a chance to get their story straight. 234 00:29:34,042 --> 00:29:38,250 And so, I was interested in what she did feel 235 00:29:38,250 --> 00:29:42,417 that his knowledge and or culpability may or may not be. 236 00:30:29,583 --> 00:30:30,875 - Okay. 237 00:30:30,875 --> 00:30:32,208 I didn't believe that Darren just happened 238 00:30:32,208 --> 00:30:35,458 to find this baby and had no other knowledge 239 00:30:35,458 --> 00:30:37,625 of how or where it could have come from. 240 00:30:37,625 --> 00:30:39,208 I'm under the suspicion that he knew 241 00:30:39,208 --> 00:30:41,958 more than even what Megan knew he knew. 242 00:30:41,958 --> 00:30:44,208 [suspenseful music] 243 00:30:48,708 --> 00:30:51,083 [tense music] 244 00:30:59,292 --> 00:31:02,167 - It was hard to grasp and to fathom. 245 00:31:02,167 --> 00:31:05,458 I just remembered just being in shock 246 00:31:05,458 --> 00:31:07,042 that we kept finding babies. 247 00:31:07,042 --> 00:31:10,500 Six, and then finally seven, and it was horrific. 248 00:31:10,500 --> 00:31:12,833 [tense music] 249 00:31:14,583 --> 00:31:18,042 - A total of seven children had been found in the garage. 250 00:31:18,042 --> 00:31:20,333 We went to every exhaustive measure 251 00:31:20,333 --> 00:31:22,333 trying to determine if there were more 252 00:31:22,333 --> 00:31:24,417 than just the seven children we found. 253 00:31:24,417 --> 00:31:27,208 We did a search at her home in West Valley. 254 00:31:27,208 --> 00:31:30,250 We used cadaver dogs at multiple locations, 255 00:31:30,250 --> 00:31:33,042 and ultimately, we didn't find anything 256 00:31:33,042 --> 00:31:35,625 more than the seven found in her garage. 257 00:32:09,375 --> 00:32:11,083 Megan was exhausted. 258 00:32:11,083 --> 00:32:13,208 She hadn't accepted food or water all day 259 00:32:13,208 --> 00:32:15,000 and we had made our case. 260 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,083 And so at that point, I do inform her 261 00:32:17,083 --> 00:32:20,042 that she's going to jail for murder. 262 00:32:20,042 --> 00:32:22,417 [tense music] 263 00:32:26,125 --> 00:32:29,250 - She's only charged with six because she maintained 264 00:32:29,250 --> 00:32:31,542 that one of the babies was stillborn. 265 00:32:31,542 --> 00:32:33,583 [tense music] 266 00:32:40,083 --> 00:32:44,125 - I really wanted to understand how much Darren knew. 267 00:32:44,125 --> 00:32:46,708 Was he complicit and did he tell her to do it? 268 00:32:46,708 --> 00:32:50,875 Did he tell her to get rid of them, or was he so aloof 269 00:32:50,875 --> 00:32:54,583 and disconnected that it was convenient that they were gone? 270 00:33:05,208 --> 00:33:08,250 In talking with Darren, I had to be aware of the fact 271 00:33:08,250 --> 00:33:11,042 that having the criminal history that he did, 272 00:33:11,042 --> 00:33:13,875 if he felt that I was trying to implicate him, 273 00:33:13,875 --> 00:33:16,708 that he would immediately request counsel. 274 00:33:16,708 --> 00:33:19,000 So, I was very careful 275 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,625 because I wanted to earn his trust. 276 00:35:08,250 --> 00:35:10,208 - His reaction was very emotional. 277 00:35:10,208 --> 00:35:11,667 His head went in his hands. 278 00:35:11,667 --> 00:35:14,708 And I actually perceived that as genuine, 279 00:35:14,708 --> 00:35:17,167 that he was not aware that there was seven. 280 00:35:17,167 --> 00:35:19,417 However, I didn't believe that he just happened 281 00:35:19,417 --> 00:35:23,042 to find this baby and had no other knowledge 282 00:35:23,042 --> 00:35:25,083 of how or where it could have come from. 283 00:37:31,708 --> 00:37:33,833 [pensive music] 284 00:38:53,542 --> 00:38:55,125 - As officers, death notifications 285 00:38:55,125 --> 00:38:56,542 are very difficult. 286 00:38:56,542 --> 00:38:59,208 And this was one that I didn't really view it 287 00:38:59,208 --> 00:39:01,583 as a death notification until I had done it. 288 00:39:01,583 --> 00:39:04,208 And I actually kind of felt badly 289 00:39:04,208 --> 00:39:06,208 that that's how Darren found out 290 00:39:06,208 --> 00:39:08,583 that he had fathered seven other children 291 00:39:08,583 --> 00:39:10,292 that he didn't even know about. 292 00:39:41,208 --> 00:39:43,458 [tense music] 293 00:39:47,500 --> 00:39:51,875 My perspective of Darren at that point was 294 00:39:51,875 --> 00:39:54,917 that I truly didn't know how much more he knew, 295 00:39:54,917 --> 00:40:00,708 but there was no evidence that Darren helped Megan. 296 00:40:00,708 --> 00:40:05,333 Also, considering the fact that if he knew 297 00:40:05,333 --> 00:40:06,875 that there were bodies in his garage, 298 00:40:06,875 --> 00:40:09,875 he wouldn't be cleaning his garage on a 48-hour pass. 299 00:40:09,875 --> 00:40:12,042 So, he was released. 300 00:40:12,042 --> 00:40:14,375 [tense music] 301 00:40:24,792 --> 00:40:28,417 We had sent all of the evidence 302 00:40:28,417 --> 00:40:29,875 that would preserve a fingerprint, 303 00:40:29,875 --> 00:40:33,458 tape, plastic bags, things from the boxes 304 00:40:33,458 --> 00:40:35,000 that may have DNA on it, 305 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:38,417 and the FBI did analyze all of that for us. 306 00:40:38,417 --> 00:40:41,583 Every fingerprint that the FBI found was Megan's. 307 00:40:41,583 --> 00:40:43,333 - Ultimately, Darren was cleared 308 00:40:43,333 --> 00:40:45,500 of any involvement in the case. 309 00:40:50,375 --> 00:40:52,750 [tense music] 310 00:40:55,375 --> 00:40:57,708 - Our goal from the beginning of this 311 00:40:57,708 --> 00:41:01,417 was to ensure justice for these babies. 312 00:41:01,417 --> 00:41:03,583 - [Anchor] And tonight, justice for six babies 313 00:41:03,583 --> 00:41:06,375 killed right after birth by their own mother, 314 00:41:06,375 --> 00:41:08,750 as she pleads guilty to six counts of murder. 315 00:41:08,750 --> 00:41:11,083 - And the judge gave her the maximum sentence 316 00:41:11,083 --> 00:41:13,833 that could keep her locked up for the rest of her life. 317 00:41:15,042 --> 00:41:19,792 - [Man] Megan having admitted to killing all but one, 318 00:41:19,792 --> 00:41:23,208 she was sentenced to six five-to-lifes, 319 00:41:23,208 --> 00:41:24,875 to be served consecutively. 320 00:41:24,875 --> 00:41:27,875 She's going to prison for the rest of her life. 321 00:41:27,875 --> 00:41:30,667 - Megan had a family that she was raising, 322 00:41:31,625 --> 00:41:33,583 but on the flip side of that coin, 323 00:41:33,583 --> 00:41:36,542 she also had seven dead children in her garage 324 00:41:36,542 --> 00:41:38,125 that she had murdered. 325 00:41:39,542 --> 00:41:40,750 I don't know what her motive was. 326 00:41:40,750 --> 00:41:43,375 I don't care what her motive was, 327 00:41:43,375 --> 00:41:45,792 but the fact of the matter is she did it, 328 00:41:45,792 --> 00:41:49,125 and that was unfathomable to me. 329 00:41:50,167 --> 00:41:53,208 - Neighbors tonight are in absolute shock. 330 00:41:53,208 --> 00:41:56,083 - I mean, I just can't even believe 331 00:41:56,083 --> 00:41:59,000 that even Megan would be capable of such a thing. 332 00:42:02,125 --> 00:42:03,917 [pensive music] 333 00:42:03,917 --> 00:42:06,250 - All of us were so surprised to find out 334 00:42:06,250 --> 00:42:08,083 that she had had seven pregnancies, 335 00:42:08,083 --> 00:42:09,542 and that none of us knew. 336 00:42:09,542 --> 00:42:11,000 That was a shock in itself. 337 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:15,167 - This whole event was very traumatic for our community. 338 00:42:15,167 --> 00:42:17,708 Something snapped in her brain. 339 00:42:17,708 --> 00:42:20,625 I still haven't come to terms with it. 340 00:42:21,583 --> 00:42:24,000 - It was heartbreaking to me because, 341 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:27,333 I mean, our church is so based on family. 342 00:42:27,333 --> 00:42:29,792 Our belief is families are forever. 343 00:42:29,792 --> 00:42:32,208 This is our nice little Pleasant Grove. 344 00:42:32,208 --> 00:42:34,167 How could this happen in this community? 345 00:42:37,875 --> 00:42:40,750 - At the end of the day, there are things 346 00:42:40,750 --> 00:42:43,417 that can never be fully explained in this case. 347 00:42:43,583 --> 00:42:45,917 [somber music] 348 00:42:49,375 --> 00:42:51,083 - A few years later, 349 00:42:51,083 --> 00:42:53,708 they did have a memorial for the babies. 350 00:42:53,708 --> 00:42:55,917 Darren's parents did decide 351 00:42:55,917 --> 00:42:58,542 to give all the babies a name, 352 00:42:58,542 --> 00:42:59,875 which was great, 353 00:42:59,875 --> 00:43:01,875 and I'm glad they done that.