Before moving to Boston and the apartment the four dead babies were discovered Debbie Joyce Harrelson changed her name to Alexis Aldamir, which appears to be a reference to a character in J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lords of the Rings."
After the remains were found in 2022, Alexis Aldamir's brother told investigators that when she was 19 years old she would discuss having a tubal ligation surgery, which would have “permanently prevented her from becoming pregnant,” court records show.