PROVO, UTAH — Authorities say a Utah woman accused of killing six babies that she gave birth to over 10 years told investigators that she strangled or suffocated the children and then put them in boxes in her garage.
According to a probable-cause statement released by police Monday, Megan Huntsman said that between 1996 and 2006, she gave birth to at least seven babies at her former home in Pleasant Grove and all but one of them were born alive.
Huntsman, 39, said she killed them immediately after they were born, and put their bodies inside the boxes. The statement said each baby was wrapped in a towel or a shirt, then placed in a plastic bag.
Huntsman is being held on $6 million bail — $1 million for each baby she’s accused of killing. It wasn’t clear if she had an attorney.
Huntsman was arrested Sunday on six counts of murder after police found the infants’ tiny bodies. A seventh baby appears to have been stillborn, Utah County Attorney Jeffrey Buhman said.
Formal charges have not yet been filed against Huntsman, and no other arrests have been made.
