The defendant was a 21 year old mother of four, convicted of murdering her first two by drowning them in the bathtub at her home on Rhonda Drive and Riddle Street in Jeffersonville. The drownings were committed at different times, 1 1/2 years apart, when each victim was approximately 14 months old. No charges were brought until the death of the second child, and both cases were joined for trial. In both cases, the child was heavily insured at the time of the drownings, with the defendant as beneficiary. 48 hours before the second drowning, the defendant solicited a $40,000 life insurance policy on the child. The defendant gave wildly conflicting statements to the police, to the Welfare Dept., and to the Grand Jury, but basically alleged that both deaths were accidental. Neither child had any trauma to the body and medical experts agreed that it would be next to impossible for the child to drown accidentally without such trauma. The defendant was convicted of both murders. The jury was unable to unanimously agree on a death sentence. Clark Superior Court Judge Clementine B. Barthold sentenced the defendant to the maximum term, 120 years imprisonment, on December 2, 1986. The defendant's anticipated release date is June 2065. She will be 80 years old.