Marie Noe American woman accused of killing her 8 children Country: USA

Biography of Mary Noe

Mary Noe, an American woman accused of murdering her eight children, was born in 1928 in the United States. She grew up in a family with troubled relationships between her parents. At the age of five, Mary contracted scarlet fever, which was later considered the cause of her learning difficulties.

As a teenager, Mary dropped out of school and began working and caring for her niece, who was born to one of her older sisters when Mary was twelve years old. The niece was raised as one of the Noe sisters.

Mary met Arthur Noe in a private club in the West Kensington neighborhood, adjacent to Philadelphia. The couple secretly married soon after. They had a total of ten children, all of whom died between the ages of two weeks and 14 months.

The deaths of Mary's children were initially attributed to sudden infant death syndrome. However, suspicions arose after the release of the book "The Death of Innocents" in 1997, which detailed the case of Waneta Hoyt, a New York woman convicted of killing her five children. A magazine article published in April 1998 also sparked interest in investigating the mysterious deaths of Mary's children.

The author of the magazine article handed over his research to the Philadelphia Police Department in March 1998. After studying the materials, the police interrogated Mary, who confessed to strangling four of her children. She claimed that she could not remember what happened to the other four infants who died under similar circumstances.

Mary was charged with first-degree murder in August 1998. However, a plea deal was reached, and she pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. In June 1999, she was sentenced to 20 years of probation, with the first five years to be served under house arrest.

As part of the plea deal, Mary agreed to undergo a psychiatric evaluation that may reveal the reasons behind her actions. In September 2001, it was revealed that Mary Noe suffers from a mixed personality disorder, according to the materials added to her case.