Detroit Mother Kills Children, Hid Their Bodies In Deep Freezer!

Call it "putting up a good front for the public, while the devil in her destroyed her family". Such seems to be the situation, where a 35 year old Detroit mother killed two of her children and ordered her daughter to entomb one victim in a freezer on top of the other body, says a court filing. 

Facebook Profile picture of Mitchelle Blair

According to the story, Mitchelle Blair's two children, an eight-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl, lived at the low-rent apartment on the city's east side next to their siblings' bodies  for the past two years. Meanwhile, the picture painted in the court filing belies the doting maternal image Blair projected on Facebook, as she posted a picture with the message: "There is no greater blessing than being called Mom".


While testifying against her in court on Thursday, two days after her nine-year-old son Stephen Berry and 13 year old daughter Stoni Blair, were discovered dead, Blair's 17-year-old daughter told investigators she and her surviving brother were regularly beaten with an extension cord and plank and burned with irons. The documents say: "Blair tortured Stephen for approximately two weeks prior to his death by tying a belt around his neck, throwing hot water on him while in the shower and putting a plastic bag over his head." 

Mitchelle Blair in court

After Stephen's death in August 2012, Blair wrapped his body in a bed sheet and put him in the freezer. Nine months later, Blair became "enraged" when Stoni said she didn't like her surviving siblings, according to the court documents. She allegedly strangled the girl with a T-shirt and suffocated her with a black rubbish bag. Blair then made the teenager place her sister's body in the deep freezer, say investigators. 

The teenager said neither she nor her siblings had attended school for years. Authorities investigated allegations of abuse in 2002 and 2005, but Blair was allowed to keep custody of the children and referred to counselling. The state says the two fathers of Blair's surviving children are unfit to care for them.