sad world and sick people

[abnormalandbitchy]

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EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) - The body of a woman who apparently had a fetus cut from her womb was found in a vacant lot, and police said Friday they were searching for her three young children.

The children were last seen with a 26-year-old woman who was taken into police custody late Thursday. State police described her only as a person of interest.

She had buried a baby Thursday that she said had been stillborn, East St. Louis Police Chief James Mister told the Belleville News-Democrat. An autopsy will be performed on the baby Friday to determine whether it was removed from the dead woman's womb, Mister said.

Her boyfriend told officials that she had confessed to him during the funeral that the baby wasn't his and that she'd killed a woman and taken her baby, Mister said.

Police found the body in the lot soon afterward. The victim's name was not immediately released. The Associated Press is not naming the 26-year-old woman because she has not been charged with any crime. Police said they captured her at a home late Thursday but would not say if she had been arrested.

Authorities also declined to say Friday whether there was any connection between the two women. The boyfriend, who also was not identified by name, is a sailor home on leave, according to the News-Democrat.

Police searched for the children at a park in East St. Louis on Friday, moving along a lake shoreline in a boat with a search dog aboard. The children were identified as Demond Tunstall, 7, Ivan Tunstall, 3, and Jinella Tunstall, 2.

St. Clair County State's Attorney's Robert Haida called it ``a very tragic case'' but said authorities weren't ``rushing to judgment.''

``We are taking our time and waiting on reports from investigators,'' he said.

The East St. Louis case is the area's second recent case involving babies.

A 36-year-old woman from Lonedell is accused of slashing a young mother's throat and kidnapping her baby on Sept. 15. The baby was found in good condition four days later.

Another woman is to stand trial next April in the abduction of an unborn girl taken from the womb of Bobbie Jo Stinnett in December 2004 in Skidmore, Mo. The baby survived.

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What a sad world this is becomeing that mother are loseing children to awful hateful people, I do not see any of these being an act of a despert woman needing a child, many children are in foster homes and need people.if you are willing to take the time.these women it seems were not gifted with children for a reason, If you could rip an innocent child from its mothers wom then you are pure evil and to then kill that child that inncent life is not only a sin agaisnt got and everything moral but i sign of a very sick mind these women are no better then scott petterson and what he did to Laceys son the only differance they are women and there for seem to gaim some sort of pitty ... i dont get mankind

[EddieHill]

abnormalandbitchy, All we can do is pray for those people and maybe God will turn Saint Louis and the Eastside around. Saint Louis and the Eastside are nothing but a giant craphole. It would take a miricle for that to change. It seems like we need a ton of miricles in the good old USA.

[abnormalandbitchy]

Autopsy: Slain Woman's Kids Were Drowned
By JIM SUHR


EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) - A woman accused of killing a pregnant woman and her fetus told police she drowned the woman's three young children and stuffed them into a washer and dryer at their apartment, an official said Sunday.

Preliminary autopsies on the dead children Sunday appear to show they were drowned, Ace Hart, a deputy St. Clair County coroner, told The Associated Press.

As of Sunday, Tiffany Hall, 24, had not been charged in the children's deaths, but prosecutors on Saturday accused Hall of killing their mother, Jimella Tunstall, 23, and her fetus. The fetus had been cut from her womb, authorities said.

According to Sunday's autopsies, there were no signs of physical abuse or trauma on the children - ages 7, 2, and 1 - and toxicology tests were pending ``to see if they were poisoned or possibly drugged,'' Hart said.

``They were not drowned there in the wash machine,'' Hart stressed.

On Sunday, the community turned to prayer to understand the slayings at a service for the slain family.

``This is an opportunity for people to turn to God,'' said Debra Kenton, a member of the New Life Community Church. ``Who else can explain things like this?''

Authorities suspect Tunstall was slain on or about Sept. 15.

That day, Hall summoned police to a park, saying she had given birth to a stillborn child, Hart said. She was arrested after she told her boyfriend during the baby's funeral that the baby wasn't his and that she had killed the mother to get it, authorities said.

Tunstall's body was found Thursday, and authorities began a furious search for her children. Police said the children were last seen with the Hall on Monday.

Authorities had visited Tunstall's apartment Friday but noticed nothing amiss while looking for photographs of the children for media outlets to publicize in their search, Hart said.

Hall told police where the bodies were and told police she drowned them, Hart said. He said he understood why investigators may have overlooked the children during their previous trip to the apartment. ``Who would be looking in the washer and dryer?''

By Saturday night, Hart said, ``you could find them by the smell.''

The oldest, 7-year-old DeMond Tunstall, was found in the dryer and the younger two children - 2-year-old Ivan Tunstall-Collins and 1-year-old Jinela Tunstall - in the washer. Two of the children were found nude, the third wearing only underpants, Hart said.

Hall remained jailed Sunday on $5 million bond, charged with first-degree murder in Tunstall's death and with intentional homicide of an unborn child.

Meanwhile, stuffed animals continued to mount outside Tunstall's apartment, its door crisscrossed with white evidence tape. There was a white teddy bear, and a stuffed race car with DeMond's name.

An autopsy showed that Jimella Tunstall bled to death after sustaining an abdominal wound caused by a sharp object, believed to be scissors, Hart has said. Authorities believe her womb was cut open after she was knocked unconscious.

Relatives say Tunstall grew up with Hall and had let her baby-sit her children. Hall has two children of her own. Illinois State Police Capt. Craig Koehler said they are ``safe and sound.''

Hall likely will be arraigned Monday on the two charges, each carrying a 20 to 60 years or life in prison, prosecutors said. The murder count could be punishable by the death penalty.

DNA tests should determine definitively whether the baby was the one Tunstall was carrying, Hart said.

Associated Press reporter Christopher Leonard contributed to this report.