House of horrors mom weeps as murder trial hears she LAUGHED as she told investigators she 'didn't even think' of her dead babies after their remains were found inside her rat and maggot infested home
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- Erika Murray, 35, is charged over the deaths of two of the three dead babies
- They were found in a closet in the insect-infested Blackstone home in 2014
- She told investigators she 'panicked' when she gave birth to a stillborn baby
- But Murray had earlier denied having any more children other than the living four, ranging from five months to 13-years-old, removed from the home
- She later admitted to not 'even think about' her other deceased children
- Older two kids did not realize the younger two were their siblings, a judge heard
Erika Murray, 35, laughed as she told investigators how she 'didn’t even think' of her dead babies. She appeared emotional in court on Friday, pictured
The Massachusetts mother charged with murder after the bodies of two infants and a fetus were found inside her rat-infested home laughed as she told investigators how she 'didn’t even think' of her dead babies.
Erika Murray, 35, is charged over the deaths of two of the three dead babies found in the trash-strewn and insect-infested Blackstone home in 2014.
She told investigators she 'panicked' when she gave birth to a stillborn baby - despite earlier denying having any more children than the four living youngsters found at the home.
And Murray, who was pictured crying in court Friday, later admitted to not 'even think about' her two other deceased children.
The four living children, ranging from five months to 13-years-old, were removed from the home, which was eventually torn down.
A taped recording of her first interview and a video of her second with trooper Shawn Murphy in September 2014 was played to the court Friday in which Murray initially insisted she had no other children, miscarriages, or stillbirths.
But when Murphy told her the skeletal remains of a child were found in a closet Murray was forced to admit she had a child previous to the three-year-old found living in filth, and that the baby was stillborn.
She told police she panicked and did not know the sex of the baby, adding: 'I didn't know what to think, they weren't breathing, they weren't alive.
'I didn't feel a heartbeat. I wasn't thinking. I felt like I was in this all by myself. I didn't know who I could trust.'
Police then told Murray they found the remains of two more infants.
NBC Boston's Alysha Palumbo reports that when probed if she knew when she had the other deceased children Murray replied: 'I didn’t even think about them really.'
Her older children, who appeared to have maggots in their ears, did not realize the two younger ones were their siblings a judge was told.
Murray laughed when police asked if her boyfriend, Ray Rivera, was deaf after he did not notice there were babies in the house.
She added: 'He started to question me recently and I just told him I was babysitting.'
Shocking images showed the soiled sweatpants one infant was said to have been wrapped in
The remains of one of the three infants found was discovered in this onesie, the court heard
Trooper Keith Egan told a judge Thursday he found the remains of an infant in a cardboard box
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In harrowing testimony she claims to have not told anyone about the younger living children because she 'didn't want to get into any more trouble' and admitted that no one washed their clothes. Neither had any birth records, the court heard.
When probed as to why her younger children had not seen any doctor unlike their older siblings Murray replied: 'I don't know.'
She later claimed to have not told her boyfriend because she 'was just nervous how he would react'.
Murray said she disposed of the placentas in trash and cut the umbilical cords with scissors.
The remains of one of the three infants found in the Massachusetts house of horrors case was discovered in a filthy onesie, another was wrapped in maggot-infested sweatpants and a third was kept in a cardboard box, a medical examiner testified Thursday.
On Friday the court heard Murray admit at least one of those found dead had been born alive.
Shocking images presented to the court showed the soiled clothing two of the babies were said to have been found in after being hidden in a closet.
Medical examiner Robert Welton, who performed autopsies on the dead children, described how he found the remains of three infants in horrifying circumstances on the third day of the trial.
On Wednesday she broke down in tears in a rare display after images of her children were projected to the court room.
But former Department of Children and Families investigator Catherine Francy testified Wednesday that Murray called her three-year-old child 'it' several times.
Murray, who appeared in court wearing the same shirt two days running, appeared emotionless Thursday as she listened to the harrowing evidence
Erika Murray, 35, is charged over the deaths of two of the three dead babies found in the trash-strewn and insect-infested Blackstone home in 2014
Neighbors say the property was full of 'dirty diapers, fleas and maggots' and images from the house show piles of trash filling rooms and squalid conditions
The home where Erika Murray lived and the remains of three babies were found in 2014. It took clean-up crews 90 hours spread over four days of work to clear out Murray's house before heavy machinery was brought in to raze it to the ground
Dr Welton told a judge he saw the remains of the infant left in the cardboard box pulled from a closet by police. A second infant was also said to have been found in the same closet along with the remains of an animal.
In a second bedroom the remains of a third child were also found, Dr Welton said.
One child appeared to wrapped in sweatpants, another was wearing a filthy onesie and a diaper.
The third was found wearing 'infantwear' for an infant eight to 11 pounds and a jacket and was kept in the cardboard box, he said.
Neighbors say the property was full of 'dirty diapers, fleas and maggots' and images from the house show piles of trash filling rooms and squalid conditions.
'I was never an overly neat person', Murray told police in a 2014 interview played to the court Friday.
Murray's attorney says there is no evidence his client committed a crime.
He has also raised the possibility that the children were stillborn and therefore not murdered.
Defense attorney Keith Halpern says Murray has mental health issues which contributed to the condition of the home.
He said she did not call law enforcement after the deaths as she panicked, according to reports.
A judge is deciding the case after Murray, who pleaded not guilty, waived her right to a jury.
Ramon Rivera, 39, the children's father and Murray's live-in boyfriend, is also said to be facing child abuse charges in a separate proceeding.
