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Coroner's jury rules deaths of fetus, mother homicides
AP ^ | April 12, 2007 | Jim Suhr

Posted on 04/12/2007 9:18:21 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

BELLEVILLE, Ill. - A baby sitter charged with murder clubbed a pregnant woman in the head repeatedly with a table leg, then cut her fetus from the womb in a bathtub where she later drowned the victim's three young children, an investigator testified Wednesday.

The grisly details in the September slayings of Jimella Tunstall and her family were revealed at a hearing where a coroner's jury, after a few minutes of deliberations, concluded the deaths were homicides.

Tiffany Hall, 24, has been charged with first-degree murder and faces a possible death sentence in the death of Tunstall and with intentional homicide of an unborn child - Tunstall's 7-month-old fetus.

(Excerpt) Read more at ocala.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: coroner; fetus; murder; wtfiswrongwithpeople
Let's see how this is additionally played in the media.
1 posted on 04/12/2007 9:18:22 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Wow! A truly sick, wacko wench. Killing those people and then luring that little boy to his death. Just sick.

But then keeping their bodies in her apartment?

Ya, the MSM should be having a field day with this (drums fingers).

2 posted on 04/12/2007 9:24:34 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Encourage illegal immigration! Maybe you too can be hit and killed by a drunk driver!)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Prayers for the innocents..
3 posted on 04/12/2007 9:27:30 AM PDT by TASMANIANRED (Taz Struck By Lightning Faces Battery Charge)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Words escape me.


4 posted on 04/12/2007 9:29:18 AM PDT by netmilsmom (To attack one section of Christianity in this day and age, is to waste time.)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Fetus is murdered. Wait how can this be murder if just a fetus? You mean a fetus is a baby?


5 posted on 04/12/2007 9:29:37 AM PDT by johniegrad
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Life in prison will not let her think about what she has done, This is no doubt a person without feelings.


6 posted on 04/12/2007 9:30:19 AM PDT by stockpirate (A nation that does not honor it warriors will be defeated by a nation that does. (read my profile))
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Just when you think you’ve heard every horrific story imaginable, something worse comes along.


7 posted on 04/12/2007 9:31:33 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

I live right outside Belleville and happen to be friends with the Coroner. This incident was the first time I have ever seen the man (the coroner) visibly shaken for days over anything - and he’s seen plenty from East St. Louis.

What made me angry was the way the lawyers around the courthouse were gleefully excited that this case is going on. It’s like their Super Bowl and it’s just morbid.


8 posted on 04/12/2007 9:39:57 AM PDT by dannyboy72 (How long will you hold onto the rope when Liberals pull us off the cliff?)
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To: dannyboy72

Filed under “Proof there is a Devil,” entry number 147,393...

(Right next to the NARAL file...)


9 posted on 04/12/2007 9:43:06 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (With taxation, the "how" is even more important than the "how much," if you care about liberty...)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

I remember a case where, concerning the parents, the prosecutor told how they spent more time, energy and money looking for care of the family dog, then they did day care and babysitters for the twins.


10 posted on 04/12/2007 9:43:56 AM PDT by thiscouldbemoreconfusing
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To: johniegrad
Fetus is murdered. Wait how can this be murder if just a fetus? You mean a fetus is a baby?

I think this is viewed as a murder because the mother wanted to keep it. If she didn't want it, it wouldn't be murder. I'm not really sure why that's supposed to make a difference, though.

11 posted on 04/12/2007 10:48:48 AM PDT by nosofar
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