Ocean City, Md. – Police with cadaver-sniffing dogs, shovels and a backhoe dug Monday outside the home of a woman charged with killing her baby boy, widening a grim search that so far has turned up four tiny bodies.
None of the bodies appeared to be full term, police said, including the remains of the most newly delivered child, a boy, who was found in a vanity below the bathroom sink in Christy Freeman’s home.
Two other corpses were found in plastic bags in a trunk in her bedroom, and another in a bag in a small recreational vehicle parked in her driveway.
Police kept searching in the overgrown yard outside Freeman’s house after the cadaver dogs hit on new possible scents.
“I want to clear my name in this case,” Freeman, 37, told a judge at a bond hearing Monday when she was ordered held without bail on first-degree murder and other charges in the most recent death.
Soon after the hearing, police said the chief medical examiner’s preliminary report found the baby boy was stillborn, but the cause of death was still under investigation. Police spokesman Barry Neeb said it was possible the charges against Freeman could be amended as a result.
Freeman, who has four other children, came to authorities’ attention Thursday, when emergency medical technicians and police were called to her apartment.
Her boyfriend, Raymond W. Godman Jr., said Freeman had passed out in the bathroom, according to the charging documents. She was taken to a hospital Thursday, and doctors discovered a placenta and part of an umbilical cord, police said. She eventually told police she had delivered a dead and deformed baby – claiming that she did not see any hands or feet – and that she had flushed the body down the toilet, according to charging documents.
Police got a search warrant and found the infant in the cabinet below the bathroom sink, according to the charging documents, in which authorities describe the baby as a “viable fetus/infant,” with hands, feet and facial features.
Police then found the two sets of remains and a placenta in the bedroom trunk Thursday, and a plastic bag with the fourth infant’s corpse Friday in the motor home.
The chief medical examiner in Baltimore was examining the remains and trying to determine the causes of their deaths.
