August 23, 1928 - Marie Noe
Over nearly two decades, she reported the deaths of eight infants in succession, each ruled a natural cause at the time — a pattern that went unquestioned for thirty years before investigators revisited the cases. The span of the crimes, the age of the victims, and the systemic failures that allowed them to continue make her case a significant one in the history of forensic medicine and child death investigation.
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Marie Noe (August 23, 1928 – May 5, 2016) was an American woman who was convicted in June 1999 of murdering eight of her children. Between 1949 and 1968, eight of the ten Noe children died of mysterious causes which were then attributed to sudden infant death syndrome. All eight children were healthy at birth and were developing normally. Two other children died of natural causes. Noe pleaded guilty in June 1999 to eight counts of second-degree murder, and was sentenced to 20 years' probation and psychiatric examination.
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