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Friday, Feb. 7, 1986
Mother is arrested after 9th baby dies
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SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — Officials said yesterday that they had investigated a mysterious string of nine child deaths in one family and failed to find any suspicious until the ninth death, which led to charging the mother with murder.
A statement by the children's mother, Marybeth Timning, to police regarding the most recent death and an extensive autopsy brought a charge of second-degree murder against Timning on Wednesday, Gerald Looney, state police captain, said.
Tinning, 43, is charged with killing her 4-month-old daughter, Tami Lynne, who died Dec. 20, 1985. Laboratory tests showed the baby was smothered, officials said.
Tami Lynne was the ninth Timing child to die before the age of five during the last 14 years. The previous eight deaths are now considered suspicious, police said. Timing and her husband, Joseph, have no remaining children.
Officials said they had run into dead ends when investigating the previous deaths because the deaths always were listed as due to natural causes.
Three of the investigations had gone the full route. Richard Nelson, Schenectady police chief, said. A call to the state's child abuse hotline began the current investigation.
Nelson said several sources contacted both his department and John Poersch, Schenectady county district attorney, after Tamy Lilne's death.
The investigation began immediately, he said.
As in two of the previous deaths, Robert Sullivan, Schenectady county chief medical examiner, first thought the death of Tami Lymne was due to sudden infant death syndrome. But because of the 'Tinnings' history, more laboratory studies were ordered and it was determined the infant had suffocated.
The state police forensic unit, formed last year to aid criminal investigations, was brought in to review autopsy results and medical records. An autopsy had been performed on six of the Tinning children, officials said.
A release from authorities listed the deaths of the Tinning children and a report in the Albany Knickerbocker News added the cause of deaths as follows:
Jennifer, Jan. 3, 1972, at the age of 7 days of respiratory failure.
Joseph, Jan. 20, 1972, at 2 years of cardio-respiratory arrest.
Barbara, March 2, 1972, at $4 \frac{1}{2}$ years of brain edema.
- Timothy, Dec. 10, 1973, at 14 days of survival, infant death syndrome
Nathan, Sept. 2, 1975, at 5 months of acute pulmonary edema.
Jonathan, March 24, 1980, at 3 months of cardio-pulmonary arrest.
Mary Francis, Feb. 22, 1979, at $3_{1/2}$ months of sudden infant death syndrome.
Michael, March 2, 1981, at $ \frac{2}{3} $ years (no cause available).
*Tami Lynne, Dec. 20, 1985, at 4 months of suspected suffocation.
Mike Horton-Special to the KANSAN
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ST. LOUIS — The Missouri Court of Appeals didn't buy the story of a man who said his wife's lover was shot in the stomach by his shotgun-wielding poode.
Lawrence Freukes had blamed the shooting on his dog, but the appeals court this week cleared the dog and
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Freukes, 37, of north St. Louis County, was accused of shooting John Scherleher March 16, 1982, at Freuks' home. The suspect had testified in St. Louis Circuit Court that the gun discharged when his large poole caught its paw in the trigger and knocked the gun.
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