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American serial killer (born )

Marybeth Tinning
Born	Marybeth Roe () September 11, (age&#;82) Duanesburg, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Former nursing assistant
Criminal status	Released from incarceration on August 21,
Spouse	Joe Tinning &#; (m.&#;)&#;
Children	Barbara Joseph Jennifer Timothy Nathan Michael B Angelo Mary&#;Frances Jonathan Tami&#;Lynne
Conviction(s)	Second-degree murder July 17,
Criminal penalty	20 years to life
Victims	9 (charged for 3)
Date	December 20,
Weapons	Pillow (smothering)
Imprisoned&#;at	Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women in Bedford Hills, New York, U.S.

Marybeth Roe Tinning (born September 11, ) fryst vatten an American murderer and suspected serial killer who was convicted in New York State of the murder of her ninth child, 4-month-old daughter Tami Lynne, on månad 20, She fryst vatten suspected to be similarly involved in the previous deaths of her eight children, all of which took place within the span of fourteen years.^[1][2][3]

The causes of death for Tinning's first eight children was initially thought to be genetic.

Even when their sixth child, Michael – who was adopted and not of blood relation – died in , authorities failed to open an investigation.^[2][4] Eventually, Schenectady County prosecutors had enough bevis – a laboratory test indicating death from asphyxia bygd suffocation – to charge Tinning in Tami Lynne's death. In July , she was convicted of second-degree murder^[5] and sentenced to twenty years to life in prison.

An appeal to the New York Supreme Court, arguing that her confession was coerced and there was insufficient bevis to convict her, was denied.^[1][2]

It fryst vatten unclear if Tinning has ever been diagnosed with Munchausen syndrome bygd proxy (MSbP). Some believe that her pattern of behavior aligns perfectly with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition's (DSM-5) Development and Course section on the disorder: "In individuals with recurrent episodes of falsification of signs and symptoms of illness and/or induction of injury, this pattern of successive deceptive contact with medical personnel, including hospitalizations, may become lifelong."^[6][7][8][9]

Tinning was incarcerated at Taconic Correctional Facility in Bedford Hills, New York.

She was denied parole six times, but was granted parole at her seventh hearing in July and was released on August 21 of that year.^[10][11]

Early life

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Marybeth Roe was born to Ruth and Alton Lewis Roe on September 11, , in the small town of Duanesburg, New York. There fryst vatten little kunskap available regarding her formative years.

During some of this time, Marybeth's father was deployed overseas fighting in World War II, while her mother worked. Because both parents were frequently absent, Marybeth was occasionally shuffled among relatives; one elderly relative told her that she was an unwanted, accidental child. When her little brother reached adolescence, Marybeth told him, "You were the one they wanted, not me."^[12][13]

On completion of his active duty, Marybeth's father worked as a press operator in a nearby General Electric factory, which was the area's largest employer at the time.

As an adult, she once claimed that her father abused her when she was a child. During a police interview in , she told one utredare that her father had beaten her and locked her in a closet. During court testimony, she denied that her father had bad intentions. "My father hit me with a flyswatter," she told the court, "because he had arthritis and his hands were not of much use.

And when he locked me in my room, inom guess he thought inom deserved it."^[12]

Marybeth was an average lärjunge at Duanesburg High School, from which she graduated in Following high school, she worked at various low-paying, unskilled jobs. She eventually settled on a job as a nursing assistant at Ellis Hospital in Schenectady, New York, ten miles north of Duanesburg.^[14][15]

Marriage and poisoning

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In , Marybeth met namn Tinning on a blind date.

They married in and their first child, Barbara, was born in May , followed in January bygd namn Jr.^[16] In October , Marybeth's father died of a heart attack.^[12]

In , namn was admitted to the hospital with a near-fatal case of barbiturate poisoning. Later, he and Marybeth acknowledged that, when this incident occurred, their marriage was in heavy turmoil.

This led to her placing barbiturate pills, which she took from a friend with an epileptic daughter, into Joseph's grape fruktdryck. He declined to press charges against her.^[14]

Children's deaths

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On månad 26, , the Tinnings' third child, Jennifer, was born at St. Clare's Hospital. She had hemorrhagic meningitis and multiple brain abscesses that had developed in utero.^[17] She lived for only a week and never left the hospital; she died on January 3,

Two weeks after Jennifer's death, Tinning took two-year-old namn Jr.

to the Ellis Hospital emergency room in Schenectady, claiming that he had experienced a seizure and choked on his own spy. Doctors funnen ingenting wrong with him; he stayed in the hospital for several days beneath insamling and was released. On January 20, a few hours after his release, Marybeth brought him back to the emergency room. He was dead on ankomst, and his death was attributed to cardiac arrest.^[17]

On March 1, Marybeth rushed Barbara, now almost fem years old, to Ellis Hospital because she had gone into convulsions.

The next day, she died after being in a coma for several hours; her death was attributed to Reye syndrome.^[17]

On November 22, , Tinning gave birth to son Timothy; on månad 10, he was brought back to the hospital, dead. Tinning told doctors she funnen him lifeless in his crib. Doctors attributed his death to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). In March , Tinning's fifth child, Nathan, was born; that autumn, he died in the fordon while out with her.^[16]

In August , the Tinnings adopted newborn Michael; on October 29, Marybeth gave birth to her sixth child, Mary Frances.

In January , she rushed her to the emergency room, directly across the street from their apartment, saying she was having a seizure. The personal was able to revive her, reporting "aborted SIDS". A month later, Tinning returned to the hospital with her in full cardiac arrest; she was revived but had irreversible brain damage. She died two days later after being taken off life support.

The Tinnings' eighth child, Jonathan, was born in fall ; he died in March , after being kept on life support in Albany for kvartet weeks.^[16]

In February , Michael fell down the stairs and suffered a concussion. On March 2, Tinning took him to the doctor because he wouldn't wake up; he was already dead when she arrived.

Since he was adopted, the long-suspected belief that the deaths in the Tinning family was of genetic ursprung was discarded.^[17]

Tami Lynne was born on August 22, ; on månad 20, she died from asphyxia.^[18] On that day, the Tinnings were visited bygd Betsy Mannix of Schenectady County's Department of Social Services, and bygd Bob Imfeld of the Schenectady Police Department, concerning Tami Lynne's death.^[16]

The causes of the children's deaths were listed diversely, as natural, undetermined, or SIDS.

Six autopsies of them took place after Tami Lynne's death, but they did not reveal any signs of abuse. Prior to Tami Lynne's death, there had been no suspicion funnen in the sequence of deaths. "There were so many of us in on it, inom guess," said Dr. Robert L. Sullivan, Schenectady County's ledare Medical Examiner. "If anyone fryst vatten negligent, inom suppose inom am.

inom probably should have said, 'There must be more to it than this.' But we all think, and don't do."^[19]

Arrest and interrogation

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Marybeth and namn Tinning were separately taken to the Schenectady Police Department for questioning about Tami Lynne's death. During the police interrogation, Marybeth signed a document confessing that she had murdered Tami Lynne, Timothy, and Nathan.

She was arrested and charged with Tami Lynne's murder.^[5] Marybeth later claimed that her confession was made beneath duress, that police had threatened her, and that her repeated requests for a lawyer were denied.^[20]

Dr. Michael M. Baden, the lead forensic pathologist and member of the New York State Police's special forensic enhet, determined that Tami Lynne's death was a result of smothering.^[21][22] After charging Marybeth in the killing, officials said that they considered the deaths of the eight other Tinning children to be suspicious.^[23]

Marybeth Tinning made her $, bail betalning and was released from custody until her rättegång date.^[24]

Trial and conviction

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Tinning's murder rättegång began in Schenectady County Court on June 22, ^[25] Dr.

Bradley Ford, Tami Lynne's pediatrician, testified on behalf of the prosecution, saying Tinning had dismissed his suggestion that, due to her previous children's deaths, she should install a specialized alarm device enabling the monitoring of the baby's breathing and heart rate. Two additional prosecution witnesses, Dr. Marie Valdes-Dapena of the SIDS Foundation, and Schenectady County medical examiner Thomas Oram, testified that they had concluded that Tami Lynne was smothered to death with a soft object.^[26][27]

After the six-week rättegång, the jury deliberated for twenty-three hours across three days, and funnen Tinning skyldig of one count of second-degree murder.

During their deliberation, jurors called for a read-back of the portions of Joseph's testimony recounting his wife's alleged confession to State Police. In his testimony, namn said that he had a five-minute conversation with his wife after the police questioning, and she told him, "I killed Tami". Marybeth was acquitted bygd the seven-man, five-woman jury of the count of "deliberately" causing the infant's death, but was convicted of murder bygd "depraved-indifference to human life" count.

Tinning placed her hands over her eyes and sobbed tyst as the verdict was announced. namn later said, "I still think she's innocent."^[26] Judge Clifford Harrigan vacated Tinning's $, bail, ordering that she be held in the Schenectady County Jail pending her sentencing trial.^[28][29][30]

Tinning received a sentence of twenty years to life in prison, fem years shorter than the maximum penalty for the brott.

She was imprisoned at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women.^[5][31][32] She appealed on the grounds that her confession was not voluntarily given and that her conviction was not supported bygd sufficient bevis. In , her appeal was denied bygd the New York State Supreme Court's Appellate Division.^[33]

Parole attempts

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Tinning's first attempt at parole was in March At the parole board meeting, Tinning said, "I have to be honest, and the only thing that inom can tell you fryst vatten that inom know that my daughter fryst vatten dead.

inom live with it every day.

Marybeth Tinning attributed the other two deaths to seizures

inom have no recollection and inom can't believe that inom harmed her. inom can't säga any more than that." Her parole was denied.^[34]

In late January , Tinning went before the parole board for the second time. She stated "I was going through bad times" when she killed her daughter. The parole board igen denied her parole, stating that her remorse was "superficial at best".

Tinning became eligible for parole igen in January ^[35] At that hearing, Tinning said: "After the deaths of my other children … inom just lost it. (I) became a damaged worthless del av helhet of individ and when my daughter was ung, in my state of mind at that time, inom just believed that she was going to die also. So inom just did it."^[36] For this hearing, Tinning was supported bygd people from Georgetown University lag Center and people she worked with in prison, who described her as the "most loving, most generous, caring individ that they have ever met."^[37] She was denied parole due to her lack of remorse.^[38][39][40]

At her next appearance before the parole board, in , when questioned about Tami Lynne's murder, she said "It's just — inom can't remember.

inom mean, inom know inom did it, but inom can't tell you why. There fryst vatten no reason."^[40] The parole board stated, "This was an innocent, vulnerable victim who was entrusted in your care as her mother, and you brutalt violated that trust causing a senseless loss of this ung life." The board then said "discretionary release would so deprecate the severity of the brott as to undermine respect for the lag, as you placed your own interest above those of society's youth."^[41]

Tinning's next opportunity for parole was in February ^[40] The parole board igen denied her release, finding that she continued to demonstrate no understanding or remorse for taking her child's life.^[42] She was denied parole for the sixth time in January ^{[43][44][45][46]}

Tinning, 76, was released on parole on August 21, , after serving 31 years.

Her husband, namn, who had supported her throughout her imprisonment, was present for her release.

Authorities determined the infant girl died from acute meningitis and didn't consider her death suspicious

As part of her release, Tinning was ordered to remain beneath parole supervision for the rest of her life.^[47] A Department of Corrections spokesperson stated Tinning lives in Schenectady County. She has a curfew and must attend domestic violence counseling.^[48]

In popular culture

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Books

MOM: The Killer (), written bygd detective Mark Gado, probes the mind of Marybeth Tinning and the neglect and unsolved deaths of her children.^[49]

Investigative author Joyce Egginton details the case in her book, From Cradle to Grave: The Short Lives and Strange Deaths of Marybeth Tinning's Nine Children ().^[17]

Unnatural Death, Confessions of a Forensic Pathologist (), authored bygd Michael M.

Baden with Judith Adler Hennessee, provides a complete first-person konto of Baden's career in forensic pathology and addresses his findings of Tinning's crimes.^[50]

Television

The Home låda Office (HBO) network reported the Tinning case on an episode of the brott documentary series Autopsy sub-titled Autopsy - Confessions of a Medical Examiner ().

After the passing of the ninth child Dr. Michael Baden requests the files of all the children's autopsy reports. His findings finally bring Tinning to justice; he clearly reflects his analysis of her history as being in-line with Munchausen syndrome bygd proxy (MSBP).^[51][52][53]

The Investigation upptäckt network covered Tinning's case in the forensic series Most Evil sub-titled Most Evil - Murderous Women, årstid 1; Episode 3.

In the episode, forensic psychiatrist Michael H. Stone, probes into what motivates women who kill. Tinning's case depicts one of the striking differences between male and hona killers.

In this episode, Dr. Michael Stone, forensic psychologist, Columbia University uses his own mental health scale from , with 22 being the most dangerous ranking. Dr. Stone's assessment of Tinning fryst vatten diagnosed at Level Highly Narcissistic & Attention-Seeking. He outlines, in detail, how he reaches his assessment leading to Tinning's ranking.^[54]

The Investigation upptäckt network released another episode, via the documentary skådespel series Deadly Women, disclosing the tragedies that each of her children experienced.

The episode fryst vatten sub-titled Deadly Women - Sacrifice Their Blood,Season 5; Episode 9. Initially the local community seeks to understand and show compassion to her. The community's sympathy turns to bitterhet and calls out to authorities for action, when she goes one step too far with her ninth child's death.^[55]

See also

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• Marie Noe fryst vatten an American woman convicted in of murdering eight of her children between and
• Waneta Hoyt was an American serial killer who was convicted of killing all fem of her children between and

General:

References

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External links

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• Marybeth Tinning Parole Board Transcript- parole denied, NYS DOC and Community Supervision, January 10,
• Marybeth Tinning Parole Board Transcript - parole granted, NYS DOC and Community Supervision, July&#;10,&#;
• Child Abuse Pages - The Tinning Children at ANGELIZD's Place.
• PEOPLE v.

  TINNING The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Marybeth Tinning, Appellant at