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28:00Now PlayingBetween July 2014 and August 2015, a small Ohio town was shaken by the deaths of three young children, all from the same family. Each boy, 4-year-old Noah, 3-year-old Eli, and 3-month-old Gavin died months apart under suspicious circumstances. Investigators uncovered a chilling truth: their mother, Brittany Pilkington, admitted to suffocating each child. During police interrogations, she explained that jealousy over the attention her husband gave the boys led her to commit these tragic acts. The prosecution described Pilkington as a sociopath who targeted her sons in a shocking pattern of violence, while her defense highlighted a history of childhood trauma and brain injury. In 2019, she pleaded guilty to murder and manslaughter charges and was sentenced to 37 years in prison. Crime Atlas displays the difficult questions about maternal murder and the psychological factors that can lead to such tragic outcomes.
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