Detroit’s dreaded Freezer Mom physically tortured her kids before finally killing them and stuffing their battered bodies in an icebox.
Detectives assigned to the stupefying double-homicide case this week interviewed two surviving children of the 35-year-old suspect, Mitchelle Blair, and learned even more horrific details of what befell their unfortunate siblings.
In the weeks, months and years leading up to the shocking murders, their deceased brother and sister were terrorized by a clearly insane parent, and even subjected to torture and deprived of sustenance.
Autopsy results are still pending because the bodies haven’t thawed yet, but a visual inspection of the two frozen corpses confirmed what Blair’s remaining daughter and son divulged once the traumatized 17-year-old girl and 8-year-old boy were both safe in protective custody.
In fact, all four of Blair’s kids had been routinely neglected and brutalized by her, investigators say, with prominent proof of the same found on both the living and the dead.
More frightening still, is that Michigan’s Department of Human Services was fully aware of the extreme abuse the children were being forced to endure as early as 2002.
That’s undoubtedly why the department filed an emergency petition now to terminate the parental rights of Detroit’s infamous Freezer Mom with respect to her last two living children; in their court filing, admitting the *home* Mitchelle Blair ran was a house of horrors.
For Blair’s 11-year-old son Stephen, however, that hellhole became an icy mausoleum in 2012 when he finally succumbed to injuries sustained during violent “disciplinary” sessions which even entailed water boarding.
"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," petitioners for the State informed the court.
And roughly nine months later daughter Stoni, 14, met with a similarly gruesome end.
According to the State’s accompanying affidavits, each victim was immediately put on ice after they’d been tortured to death, the deep freeze cover-up of their heartless killings executed by Blair herself, with the indentured services of the eldest sister.
Blair has pleaded “not guilty” to all charges and is being held in jail on 1-million-dollars bond.
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