MONTICELLO, N.Y. (AP) — A woman was convicted Tuesday of killing three of her infant children during the 1980s, a case brought after mummified remains were found in a storage shed in Arizona this year.
After about four hours of deliberations, a jury found Diane Odell, 50, guilty of second-degree murder, ruling that she acted with a depraved indifference to human life.
The babies died shortly after they were born between 1982 and 1985 in Kauneonga Lake, about 80 miles north of New York City. Odell was arrested in May after the remains, wrapped in towels and blankets, were found in cardboard boxes in a storage shed in Safford, Ariz.