A Utah mother was facing multiple counts of murder Sunday after cops made the grisly discovery of seven dead babies in the garage of her former home — six stuffed in cardboard boxes.
Megan Huntsman, 39, is believed to be the mother of all the dead infants police suspect were killed between 1996 and 2006.
“My personal reaction? Just shocked. Couldn’t believe it. The other officers felt the same. They got more and more shocked each box they opened,” said Capt. Michael Roberts of the Pleasant Grove, Utah, Police Department.
Huntsman was charged with six counts of murder. It was unclear why she was not charged with the seventh murder.
Cops were called to the house Saturday after Huntsman’s ex-husband, Darren West, discovered one of the dead babies while cleaning out the garage of a home where Huntsman previously lived.
Officers searched the garage and found six more babies in cardboard boxes, Roberts said.
Neighbors said Huntsman’s three older daughters, aged 13 to 20, still live in the house, which is owned by the West’s parents.
Huntsman moved out of the house in 2011, leaving her daughters to live on their own, neighbors said.
Roberts said the ex-husband who is believed to have fathered the slain infants was not a suspect in the infanticide.
“We don’t believe he had any knowledge of the situation,” Roberts said of West.
Asked how it was possible that West did not know about the slain babies, Roberts said, “That’s the million-dollar question. Amazing.”
He refused to say if Huntsman had made any admissions to detectives interviewing her Sunday.
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