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It was the spring of 1998. 30 years after marie noes tenth baby died, and decades after police first investigated marie and arthur noe. investigative journalist stephen fried had just finished an article on the couple when he received a phone call hell never forget. dr. hal fillinger, the former assistant philadelphia medical examiner, made the call. >> hal called me one day and he said, "can you keep a secret?" and i was like, "yeah." and he said, "she confessed." and honestly, i fell down on t...

>> you dont get two and three cases in a family. its not part of the nature of that phenomenon. with our present knowledge now. the medical examiner would not call a second one in a family a sids. >> richard firstman co-wrote "death of innocence," the book that started stephen frieds quest. >> it doesnt run in families. there are no studies suggesting that it is genetic. when you put all the factors together and you have two, and certainly three and four in a family, you need to look very hard a...

Children, but in court, marie confessed to smothering eight of her babies. as part of her plea deal. marie told the court, she was ungodly sick. along with investigative journalist stephen fried, many of the investigators working on the case were there, watching the results of their work play out in open court. >> so i sat in the back row and watched this amazing thing. to see marie noe get up in open court and admit that she killed her kids. after all that we had been through for the last year ...

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