The forensic investigation started to reveal the mysteries surrounding the murders of Stoni Blair and Stephen Berry as the autopsy was being performed.
A gloomy turn has been made in the terrible situation in Detroit involving the finding of two dead infants.
According to the results of the medical examiner’s examination, the youngsters suffered significant injuries from blunt force trauma, which ultimately led to their deaths.
Furthermore, according to a court document, Mitchelle Blair, their mother, may have admitted to carrying out the horrible deed.
Stoni Ann Blair, 13, and Stephen Gauge Berry, 9, were discovered inside a deep freezer when an eviction notice was delivered to a home on Detroit’s east side.
Mitchelle Blair’s children’s autopsies, which were discovered in a Detroit freezer, reveal that they were beaten to death: Source
Blair was soon taken into custody by the police that day. In connection with the deaths, they accused her of numerous counts of child abuse.
The investigations state that Stoni Ann’s injuries from blunt force trauma caused her death.
According to Ryan Bridges, a spokesman for the medical examiner, the autopsies of Stephen Berry and Stoni Blair did not pinpoint the precise moment of their demise.
The burns on Stephen’s body, however, showed that he had also suffered thermal injuries in addition to blunt force trauma.
Bridges withheld any additional information about the precise nature of these injuries.
Kym L. Worthy, the Wayne County Prosecutor, hinted that Blair would face more charges.
But although they are still looking into the fatalities, Wayne County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Maria Miller made it clear that no new charges were brought.
The terrible confessions Blair allegedly made are documented in a family court petition that was received from the Michigan attorney general’s office, even though Blair has not yet been officially charged in connection with the children’s murders.
She is said to have abused her four children horribly on several occasions, according court filings.
Blair’s living 17-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son are not to be in her custody, according to the court document.
According to the report, Blair “severely physically abused her children and admitted to killing two of her children.”
The prosecutors immediately placed Blair’s living children, who were at her home when the deaths were found, in protective care.
The court document states that Blair’s teenage daughter told child services investigators that Stoni Ann Blair died in May 2013 while Stephen Gauge Berry died in August 2012.
According to the court record, Mitchelle Blair suffocated Stoni Ann with a plastic bag and strangled her with a black t-shirt. She forced her eldest daughter to help her put the body in the freezer.
Additionally, the 17-year-old girl told authorities that Blair tortured Stephen for around two weeks previous to his demise.
According to the court document, the torture included placing a plastic bag over his head, burning him with hot water, and tying a belt around his neck.
According to court documents, Blair’s son, 8, and 17-year-old daughter both had broken teeth, scratches, and bruises as a result of their mother’s alleged abuse.
According to the court complaint, Blair purposefully concealed her children from view.
They hadn’t gone to school in two years, and Blair is said to have stopped their biological fathers from seeing them.
Two substantiated reports of abuse involving this home were filed with Michigan Child Protective Services in 2002 and 2005, and they were both investigated.
It is still unclear why the court decided to grant Blair custody of her other children in the wake of these terrible events.
Blair has been in police custody and is accused of first-degree child abuse as well as one count of harming a child while another child is present.
If found guilty, she may receive a maximum term of 15 years in prison.