Ten Babies. Eight Murders. One Woman to Blame: Their Mother

On June 8th, 1:27 p.m., a question was posted on Reddit that brought back memories from 23 years ago. The post asked, "Does anyone know what happened to Marie Noe?"

 Despite several comments from users who also tried to find information online, no answers were found until three hours later when a Reddit member directly addressed the question.

“If she’s not dead yet,” he wrote, “she should be.”

Since the publication of a 13,000-word investigative story in Philadelphia magazine in 1998, many individuals from various locations have enquired about the fate of Marie Noe. The story, titled "Cradle to Grave," revisited the case of the 10 infant deaths of Marie and Arthur Noe, which occurred between 1949 and 1968 and were initially blamed on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SID).

The publication of the magazine article resulted in Marie Noe, who was 71 at the time, being taken in for questioning by police. She later confessed and the Philadelphia district attorney's office charged her with eight counts of murder. 

This news was widely covered and her subsequent guilty plea, plea agreement, and sentence also received widespread attention. As part of her plea agreement, she was permitted to avoid imprisonment by participating in an unprecedented study led by a team of international experts.

This study would involve examining her and her case while she was still alive, akin to donating her brain to science.

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However, the promised study never took place. After being convicted in the largest maternal homicide case on record, Marie Noe continued to reside in her dilapidated home on North American Street with her husband Arthur and a few pets, who they would occasionally scold for creating a mess or obstructing the TV.

They remained in this manner for 11 more years until Art passed away just after Christmas in 2009.

Several weeks after Art's death, Marie, who was 81 and in declining health, gave her final interview. Despite her condition, she proclaimed, "I've got a lot of time left."

Marie Noe passed away on May 5, 2016 at the Cheltenham Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on York Road, six years after that interview.