Wow. I used to live near there.
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/001003/12/pregnant-woman-killing
Umm, “General Ripper?”
Yikes.
Doctor Strangelove, silly.
You know, this is the second time I’ve seen a story like that in the past few years.
What is wrong with people?
Urk! & her husband never suspected?
eww…
Yeah, the husband knew nothing. He didn’t notice the shallow grave in the garage, he didn’t notice the short person hanging around his house. How could he have not been charged?
The CNN story didn’t mention Bica having a husband. Even reporting, huh?
Since I live right here, and they just updated this on the news, I can throw in a few more details. Bica apparently told her husband she had given birth in the ambulance enroute to the hospital. She had told her neighbors (and probably hubby too) that she was pregnant. They gave the husband a lie detector test, which he passed, and are satisfied that he was not in on it. The neighbors had seen Bica (Mrs) outside rearranging gravel around the garage where the body was found. The coroner has stated that Mrs. Andrews was unconcious or dead when the baby was removed. Mrs. Bica had originally told neighbors that she was expecting a girl, then changed it to boy later. Kinda freaked out the neighbor behind who recently had a girl. This is just unbelievably sad. Mr. Andrews is at the hospital with his son, who they believe to be healthy. There is a seven minute window from the time the mother dies to the time the baby loses oxygen, but so far he looks good. This just makes me cry everytime I hear about it, and there’s been little else on lately. Just unbelievable.
There was a case like this in '86 or '87 in California - the mother was killed and the baby c-sectioned with car keys. The murderer was a woman who couldn’t have her own baby (as this one sounds like). It makes me wish we could ration the DESIRE to have kids, as well as the ABILITY, in pill form after rigorous screening.
This isn’t the first story of this kind I’ve read.
I remember years ago reading about a woman who had claimed to be pregnant, ran a pregnant woman off the highway and cut her baby out with car keys.
A couple of months ago I read in the local Vegas paper about a woman who murdered her pregnant neice and took her baby. Apparently the aunt had wanted to adopt the baby, but the young mother to be had decided to keep the child.
I don’t get it. I just don’t get it…
Oh my. Oh my God.
I just love that feeling where your stomach drops and it feels as though there isn’t enough oxygen or hugs around you anymore. Actually I don’t. It means something like this has happened.
What could possibly posess…
How could anyone…
Why?
Human beings are capable of doing the greatest things, and yet they manage to also decide that some really awful stuff makes sense.
I’m going to go find a hug.
I live in Ohio, and this has been on the news since the day she disappeared. The very first time I heard it, I thought, uh-oh, they’re never going to find her alive. I was horrified but not entirely shocked to hear the outcome.
The previous incident mentioned by agisofia and Slithy Tove actually took place in New Mexico, near but not in Albuquerue, when I was (grim sigh) living there. It was a similar situation, the woman had faked a pregnancy (not for the first time) and fooled her husband, her friends, etc, and finally the time came when she had to produce a baby or be shown to be faking. Not to offend anyone with morbid details, but as I recall, the killer’s name was Darcy Pierce, and she chose her victim more or less at random, following her from a car dealership. She had previously watched other women leaving a clinic with the intent of abducting one, but lost her nerve. Unfortunately, she ultimately found it again, and she strangled the victim with the cord of a fetal-monitoring device before removing the infant, if you can still find your sense of irony. She had some medical connection, I believe, perhaps as an employee of the clinic where she first stalked a victim.
Sorrow for all concerned. Sadness for the badness.
How will the father feel through the years, looking at this child? How will the child feel when it is old enough to understand what happened?
“I didn’t know the girl, but I knew her family
All their lives were shattered in a nightmare of brutality
They tried to carry on, tried to bear the agony
Tried to hold some faith in the goodness of humanity…”
[Neil Peart - “Nobody’s Hero”]
Still trying to hold some faith myself…
We just had a daughter 6 months ago. To think that someone could’ve done this to my wife just gives me the creeps.
Wish I could hug my baby right now.
Hug your wives.