>> on august 5, 1998, district attorney lynne abraham announced charges against marie noe. >> we charge in our affidavit and warrant that mrs. noe has murdered eight of her ten children. during the time between 1949 and 1968. we further allege that mrs. noe murdered her children by use of a pillow or some other soft item, and that the manner of death was homicide because she smothered her children, resulting in them being suffocated. we are the voice of the voiceless. the people who have nobody speaking for them. we always speak for the voiceless dead. they have a right to have an advocate for them. >> in the early hours of that same day, the same philadelphia detectives who took her confession arrived at the noes' home to arrest 69-year-old marie.