i hope she gets murdered in prison.
In this photo released by the East St. Louis (Ill.) police Tiffany Hall is shown. Hall was charged with one count apiece of first-degree murder and intentional homicide of an unborn child in the death of 23-year-old Jimella Tunstall Saturday, Sept. 23, 2006, and jailed on $5 million bond.
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) - Preliminary autopsies show that three children of the woman slain in a fetus theft case were drowned, the coroner told The Associated Press on Sunday.
The bodies of the children, ages 7, 2 and 1, were found Saturday decomposing inside the washer and dryer of their apartment, hours after a woman was charged with killing their pregnant mother and her fetus.
Autopsies on Sunday showed no signs of physical abuse or trauma on the children, and toxicology tests were pending "to see if they were poisoned or possibly drugged," said Ace Hart, a deputy St. Clair County coroner.
Investigators carried out a furious two-day search, including scouring an 1,100-acre state park, for the children they said were last seen Monday with 24-year-old Tiffany Hall, a family friend prosecutors charged Saturday afternoon with killing Jimella Tunstall and her fetus.
Hours later, Hall pointed authorities to Tunstall's apartment that investigators had briefly visited earlier in search of photographs of the children for media outlets to publicize as the search pressed on, Hart said.
Hall "fessed up where the kids were. She didn't say she killed them," Hart said Sunday, saying he understood why investigators may have overlooked the children during their previous trip to the apartment. "Who would be looking in the washer and dryer?"
But by Saturday night, Hart said, "you could find them by the smell."
Two of the children were nude, the third wearing only underpants, Hart said. The oldest, 7-year-old DeMond Tunstall, was found in the dryer, the younger two children - 2-year-old Ivan Tunstall-Collins and 1-year-old Jinela Tunstall - in the washer.
Hall remained jailed Sunday in nearby Belleville on $5 million bond, charged with first-degree murder in Tunstall's death and with intentional homicide of an unborn child.
