you want? do you want to send a woman in her 70s who is physically impaired to jail? is that what you re shooting for? that s the dilemma the philadelphia district attorney faced. how do you handle a case like this? like any other murder confession, according to d.a. lynne abraham. this is not unexplained. this is not undetermined. this is homicide. we didn t want to admit to ourselves that women did on occasion kill their own children. arthur noe was never considered a suspect in his children s deaths. that s because marie noe admitted, she was always the last one to see each child alive. mrs. noe is the focus of our attention. there doesn t appear right now to be any evidence linking mr. noe to the deaths of these children, except that he came home after all of the children had been pronounced dead at the hospital. so right now, there is no evidence against him at all. on august 5, 1998, district
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.
you want? do you want to send a woman in her 70s who is physically impaired to jail? is that what you re shooting for? that s the dilemma the philadelphia district attorney faced. how do you handle a case like this? like any other murder confession, according to d.a. lynne abraham. this is not unexplained. this is not undetermined. this is homicide. we didn t want to admit to ourselves that women did on occasion kill their own children. arthur noe was never considered a suspect in his children s deaths. that s because marie noe admitted, she was always the last one to see each child alive. mrs. noe is the focus of our attention. there doesn t appear right now to be any evidence linking mr. noe to the deaths of these children, except that he came home after all of the children had been pronounced dead at the hospital. so right now, there is no evidence against him at all. on august 5, 1998, district