PLEASANT GROVE, Utah — A Utah woman accused of killing seven babies she gave birth to over 10 years was arrested Sunday after police discovered the tiny bodies stuffed in separate cardboard boxes in the garage of her former home.
Megan Huntsman, 39, who lived in the Pleasant Grove home until three years ago, had the infants between 1996 and 2006, investigators said.
Neighbors in the middle-class neighborhood of mostly older homes 35 miles south of Salt Lake City say they were shocked by the accusations and perplexed that the woman’s older children still living in the home did not know their mother was pregnant or notice anything suspicious.
Officers responded to a call Saturday from Huntsman’s estranged husband about a dead infant at the home, police Captain Michael Roberts said. Officers then discovered the six other bodies.
Roberts declined to comment on a motive. He said it was not clear if Huntsman has an attorney. Huntsman was booked Sunday into the Utah County Jail on six counts of murder. It was not immediately clear why there were six counts and not seven.
The spokesman said police believe the estranged husband and Huntsman were together when the babies were born, but the man is not a person of interest at this time. Family and neighbors identified him as Darren West, a convict who has been in prison since 2006.