No charges will be filed against a woman after the bodies of four babies were found in the freezer of her Boston apartment in 2022, a U.S. prosecutor announced this week. According to NBC NewsSuffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden called the investigation into the circumstances of the grim discovery in November 2022 “one of the most complex, unusual and mind-boggling this office has ever encountered.” But he also added that he does not believe a case against the woman, 69-year-old Alexis Aldamir, can go to trial due to several factors.
“This investigation, which is one of the most complex, unusual and mind-boggling this agency has ever faced, is now complete. While we have some answers, there are many elements of this case that will likely never be answered,” Mr Hayden said. in a statement, according to the outlet.
“We will never know exactly where or when the four babies found in Alexis Aldamir's apartment were born. We will never know if the four babies were born alive, and we will never know exactly what happened to them. We will never know how Alexis Aldamir hid her pregnancies, or why she chose to do so,” he added.
According to NBCThe babies were found in a freezer in a South Boston apartment after a man called police and said his wife found them while cleaning out the man's sister's apartment. The babies, two males and two females, were frozen in shoe boxes wrapped in foil, investigators said. They added that DNA testing showed the four babies were all siblings.
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The medical examiner could not determine the cause of death or whether the babies were born alive. They also reported that there was no scientific method to determine how long the babies – described as full-term – had been frozen.
Additional DNA testing identified the babies' likely father as a man who died in 2011. Investigators also determined that the woman had five children with the babies' father, one of whom was put up for adoption. The only birth certificate found was for the birth of one child, Hayden said.
The mother is in a health care facility and when investigators questioned her, she “appeared confused and showed a lack of understanding about where she was and who she was talking to,” the prosecutor continued.
“We will never know if the four babies were born alive, and we will never know exactly what happened to them,” he added.