LOWE Twin boys - Newborn (9/2011)/ Accused: Mother-Lindsey Lowe - Madison TN

HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. - Lindsey Lowe, a 25-year-old mother charged with
murder, has told police she hid her pregnancy, and gave birth to twin
sons at her family's home. Then she killed the infants by smothering
their cries so her parents wouldn't hear them. Police
in the Nashville suburb of Hendersonville arrested Lowe on Wednesday
after her father discovered one baby's body in a laundry basket.
According
to a police affidavit, the young mother said she didn't tell her family
she was pregnant, but believes she got pregnant in January and never
visited a doctor. Police said on Thursday they were trying to identify
the father of the twins.


Lowe said she went into labor
Monday evening while on the toilet at her parents' home, according to
police. She said the first baby fell into the toilet and began to cry.
Police
wrote in the affidavit, "Lowe stated that she put her hand over the
child's mouth and she stated that she kept it there until the child was
dead which was a couple minutes."
Lowe said she never checked the sex of the child.
A
few minutes later, according to the affidavit, she gave birth to a
second child, who also fell in the toilet. She again put her hand over
the baby's mouth and held it there until the baby died, which she said
took less time than the first child. She allegedly put both babies in
the laundry basket and covered them up with blankets.
Police said both boys appeared to be full term and weighed about 5 to 6 pounds.
Lowe
was charged with first-degree murder and remained in jail Thursday with
no bond. Police said she is undergoing a medical evaluation.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20107377-504083.html

25 years old? Goodness, I've heard of immature teens doing this but 25 years old is a woman! How could she do this? Why not get an abortion when you find out you are pregnant or give them up for adoption?

Another case where they need to sterilize a subhuman woman.

HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Bond was set at $250,000
Monday for a Tennessee woman who police say admitted smothering her
newborn twins to death.

Lindsey Lowe, 25, of Hendersonville is charged with two counts of
first-degree murder for the deaths of her children following their Sept.
12 birth at the home she shares with her parents.

The Hendersonville Star News reported friends and family members
spoke her behalf during an hourlong bail hearing in a Sumner County
court.

"She's as good as it gets," Mark Lowe, who found one of the bodies in
a laundry basket two days later, said of his daughter. "She's a good
girl -- I love her very much."

A woman who said she was a cousin of the defendant told the court
Lindsey Lowe is "kind, loving and has a beautiful smile and can always
light up a room."

Hendersonville police Detective Steve Malach testified he saw that
smile when he went to the dentist's office where she works to take her
in for questioning.

"When I first saw her, she was smiling -- she greeted me -- she acted very level-headed, very normal," Malach said.

The investigator said when he started interviewing her he was only
aware of one child's body being found but she told him of the second
child.

A police affidavit states she said she smothered the infants with her hands to keep her parents from hearing their cries.

"We have two children that are dead at the hands of their mother,"
Sumner County Assistant District Attorney Ron Blanton said. "This is a
horrendous crime. The fact is she hid this pregnancy, she smothered her
children ….. The overwhelming issue in this case is probability of
conviction, and at this juncture, the state feels that the probability
of conviction and the nature of the crimes, set forth in the statute, is
so overwhelming, there should be no bond issued in this case."

Lowe, who is return to court for a preliminary hearing Sept. 28, had yet to be released, the newspaper said.

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OMG ......

How did anyone NOT know she was pregnant - with TWINS!! Just how do you HIDE a twin pregnancy????

Police: Father of smothered TN twins not fiance

11:00 PM, Oct. 24, 2011



Lindsey Lowe, 25, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder. Sumner County General Sessions Judge James Hunter sent the case to the grand jury after hearing testimony.

During the hearing, Lowe sobbed audibly as Hendersonville Police Det. Steve Malach described how she had told him of the affair that occurred in December and early January.

He said Lowe first said the father was her fiance, Jonathan Brooks, but that she had not told him, or anybody, of the pregnancy.

"I asked if it was possible anybody else was the father, and she told he she had cheated on her fiance with another guy, Jeremy Smith," Malach said.

Lowe later told Malach she had not told her fiance of the pregnancy so as not to disappoint him and because she didn't want to add to the stress of a family member's illness.

Malach said paternity test results showed it was more than 99.9 percent likely that Smith was the father of the boys.

Lowe's attorney, John Pellegrin, said after the hearing that it was the first time he and his client had heard the results of the paternity test. He said it is his understanding that Lowe, who is free on bond, remains engaged to Brooks. Brooks attended the hearing.

Police have said that Lowe told them she covered the mouths of the infants with her hand after giving birth on Sept. 12 so that her parents, whom she lived with, would not hear their cries. Her father called police two days later after discovering one of the two babies in a laundry basket in his daughter's bedroom.

After the hearing, Pellegrin told reporters, "I feel strongly that this is a mental health issue."

He said he believes the biological changes during pregnancy may have caused the onset of a mental disease in Lowe. And he said many other Western countries treat neonaticide by the mother as a mental disease.

Malach described details of his investigation. That included Lowe attending a wedding in Kentucky the weekend before giving to birth on a Monday that seemed meant to portray the woman as unfeeling.

He said Lowe returned to work two days after giving birth and sent her father a joking text message. Malach found Lowe at work and began to talk to her in an empty room.

"I said, 'I guess you know why I'm here,' and she was laughing and said, 'No. I have no idea,"' Malach testified.

He said she continued to chat with him for the half-hour ride to the police station.

"She told me she was a college graduate and she was into interior design,' he said. She even talked about plans to start a business.

Her attorney, Pellegrin, did not call any witnesses.

District Attorney General Ray Whitley said after the hearing that his office had informed Smith of the paternity test results earlier in the day.

"He took it like a man," Whitely said, explaining that Smith had known of the possibility and did not have an emotional reaction when he found out. He said the affair would be part of the proof they would present at trial as a possible motive for the killing.

Whitley said Smith lives in Kentucky and that he and Lowe know each other "through a family connection."

During the hearing, prosecutors asked to have Lowe's bond revoked because she had tested positive for a benzodiazepine drug, such as Valium or lithium. The two sides agreed to meet next week for a bond hearing.

However, Pellegrin said afterward that he doubts the hearing will be necessary as he expects to be able to show prosecutors that Lowe is not taking drugs for which she does not have a prescription.


http://www.jacksonsun.com/article/20111026/NEWS01/110250325/Police-Father-smothered-TN-twins-not-fiance

Prosecutors will not seek the death penalty against a Tennessee
woman accused of smothering her newborn infants, officials said
Thursday.
A Sumner County grand jury indicted Lindsey Brooke Lowe on two counts
each of first-degree felony murder, first-degree premeditated murder
and aggravated child abuse, District Attorney Ray Whitley said.

"We reserve the death penalty for the worst of the worst," Whitley
told CNN, citing a suspected mass murderer or an offender with a violent
past as examples.

The mother has no criminal record and the crimes met only one of 16
aggravating factors that would support a death penalty case, the
prosecutor said.

Lowe, 25, secretly gave birth to twin boys on September 12 in a
bathroom in the Hendersonville home she shares with her parents, and
then smothered the infants and hid their bodies in a bedroom laundry
basket, police said.

According to a police affidavit, Lowe confessed, telling police she
didn't look at either of the babies as she "placed her hand" over each
child's mouth to stop them from crying.




She told authorities that she knew she was pregnant "almost the whole
time" but that no one else -- including her family -- was aware,
according to the affidavit.

Both children were males and full term, weighing about 5 to 6 pounds, the affidavit said.

Her attorney, John Pellegrin, said in September that his client was "extremely distraught" both times he met with her in jail.

"This is an inexplicable situation and extremely sad for everyone involved," Pellegrin told HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell.

A message CNN left for Pellegrin on Thursday seeking comment was not immediately returned.

Lowe will be formally arraigned November 18. If convicted, she would
face potential consecutive life sentences on the murder charges, Whitley
said.

She remains free on $250,000 bond, he said.
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/10/justice/tennessee-twins-killed/

Its actualy very easy to hide a pregancy. You say How did she hide it? Clothing. Pretending to be fat. People take for granted these exscuses. And once again a child wont ruin your life if your 25. Just drop it off at a hospital. Adoption is a wounderful alternative to murdering your child.. children. Or even if you cant take care of it. Being embarrased to take the child in is no exscuse. Abortion or Adoption. No Murder.

'Two little angels' mourned at vigil

Madison church gathers to offer comfort to family of Lindsey Lowe, 25, who is charged with killing her newborn twins

5:18 AM, Sep. 23, 2011 |

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Church
members grieve, support family of Lindsey L...: A vigil was held at the
City Road Chapel United Methodist Church in Madison by church members
to grieve and support the family Lindsey Lowe, accused of killing her
newborn twins after giving birth to them in a bathroom of her parents'
home.


Written by Nicole Young | The Tennessean


Church members embrace one another during the vigil held at City Road Chapel United Methodist Church.

Twin
sisters Laurie Evans and Lisa Harper light candles during the vigil.
Lindsey Lowe is accused of killing her newborn twins after giving birth
in a bathroom at her parents' home.

About
70 people gathered at City Road Chapel United Methodist Church on
Thursday to hug, cry and offer one another words of comfort about a week
after a woman they know and love was arrested on charges of killing her newborn twins.

“God
will help her and her family through this,” said Laurie Evans, a former
music director at the church, who joined others in a candlelight vigil
for the family of Lindsey Lowe.

Lowe, 25, is charged with
first-degree murder in the death of her two infant sons. The babies were
born a little over a week ago in the bathroom of the home she shared
with her parents in Hendersonville.

Police say Lowe put her hands
over the babies’ mouths to silence their cries because she did not want
her parents to know she was pregnant. She then hid the dead infants in a
laundry basket. Police later arrested Lowe after her father discovered
one of the bodies and called police. Investigators found the second body
in the same basket.

Thursday’s service at the Madison church included Scripture readings, prayers and songs.

Lowe has been released on a $250,000 bond from the Sumner County Jail. She and her parents did not attend the vigil.

Evans
and her twin sister, Lisa Harper, wiped tears from their eyes after
kneeling at an altar piled with flowers, gifts and notes of
encouragement for the family.

“We love the Lowe family and believe in Lindsey,” Evans said. “She's a precious girl.”

As
the crowd sang “Amazing Grace,” church member Zach Johnson openly wept.
“Those are two little angels,” he said. “Two little angels.”

Ron
Lowery, senior pastor at the church, said the Lowe family has been
attending the Madison congregation for three generations. Lowe was
baptized and confirmed there. She was also a member of the youth group
and grew up in the church.

He said he speaks to the family regularly.

“They
are in tremendous pain right now,” he said. “Things come along in life
that you just don’t understand ... We have a God and we cannot give up
our trust in him. Faith can help us through this time of tragedy.”

Lowery
said the Thursday night service at City Road Chapel was the only one
planned for the Lowe family there. When asked about funeral arrangements
for the twin boys, he said he didn’t know any of the details. The
family, he said, did not wish to pass along any statements.

The
majority of the church members at the event declined to comment about
Lowe or her family, saying it was their pastor’s place to handle any
questions.

Katrina Waltenvaugh, 60, of Madison, said she did not
know the family or any of the church members. She said she came to the
vigil because she was trying to follow Jesus’ example and show love and
compassion.

“I know that no matter what my child did, I could not
cease to love my child,” said Waltenvaugh, who has three adult children
and four grandchildren. “I hope this family will stay safe in the arms
of Jesus and look to him for comfort.

“We will all be judged by
the way we judge others. It’s not our place to judge this girl or this
family. They need support right now.”

nyoung@tennessean.com.

Tennessee woman Lindsey Lowe smothered newborn twins after giving birth at parents' home

BY NINA MANDELL
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Friday, September 16, 2011

A Tennessee woman smothered her newborn twin sons to death after giving birth to them in her parents' home, police said.

Lindsey Lowe, 25, was busted after her father discovered one of the dead
infants Wednesday and called police, The Associated Press reported.
She admitted she had killed her children after giving birth to them over a toilet.

"Lowe stated that she put her hand over the [first] child's mouth and she
stated that she kept it there until the child was dead, which was a
couple of minutes," police said in an affidavit.

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-09-16/news/30186421_1_newborn-twins-second-infant-young-mom

Police: Mom killed newborn twins, hid them in laundry basket

Updated: Sep 15, 2011 4:13 PM CDT

HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. – A 25-year-old Hendersonville woman is behind bars in Sumner
County on murder charges after she admitted to killing her infant twins,
minutes after they were born.

According to a Hendersonville Police Department affidavit,
Lindsey Lowe gave birth to her first son sometime between 9:30 p.m. and
10 p.m. Monday night on a toilet in a bathroom of her parents' Park
Circle home.

Lowe told detectives the baby was crying and she did not want her parents, who were unaware she was pregnant, to hear.

Lowe reported she placed her bare hand over the child's mouth and held it there until the baby fell silent and died.

A few minutes later, Lowe told authorities she gave birth to a second child in a similar manner.

Again, Lowe said the baby was crying so she put
her hand over the baby's mouth and kept it there for several minutes
until the child died.

According to the affidavit, Lowe then placed the babies' bodies in a laundry
basket in her bedroom and covered them with a blanket to prevent them
from being discovered.

Two days later, around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Lowe's
father called police to report he'd discovered a newborn baby dead in a
basket in his daughter's room.

Officers located Lowe at a local dentist office,
her place of employment, and took her into custody. She admitted to
killing the babies during questioning.

Lowe told authorities she believes she became
pregnant during the early part of January. Both babies were born full
term, each weighing between five and six pounds.

Lowe told police she did not tell anyone she was pregnant, including her parents.

In addition, she reported she did not see a doctor once during the term of her pregnancy, according to the affidavit.

Neighbors told Nashville's News 2 Lowe never mentioned that she was pregnant but at least one thought she might be.

"I didn't really know but it was kind of obvious
because I've got a five-month-old so I remember what I looked like when I
was pregnant," neighbor Ashley Smith said. "It showed to me, but I
wasn't going to go up and ask her, ‘how far along are you?' or anything
like that."

Hendersonville police Lt. Scott Ryan told
Nashville's News 2 the crime is one he has never encountered in his 17
years on the force.

When asked about Lowe's demeanor, he replied, "She was very sad the last time I say her, very, very sad."

Lowe attended Western Kentucky University where
she studied interior design and was a member of the Alpha Delta Pi
sorority. She graduated in 2008.

She is a 2004 graduate of Goodpasture Christian School in Madison. She has more than 700 friends on her Facebook page, and lists the Bible as one of her favorite books.

Lowe is charged with two counts of first degree
murder. She was booked into the Sumner County jail where she is being
held without bond.

She has no other children and no prior arrest record.

Detectives did not immediately release the identity of the victims' father.

Police said there is no evidence to suggest anyone but Lowe was involved in the newborns' deaths.

Lowe is scheduled to appear in court Monday
morning for a bond hearing. A preliminary hearing has been set for
September 28 at 9 a.m.

http://www.wkrn.com/story/15465748/mother-taken-into-custody-for-2-infants-deaths

Trial Date Set For Woman Accused Of Killing Twins

Posted: May 17, 2012 7:05 AM CDT
Updated: May 17, 2012 1:09 PM CDT

HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. – The trial date of the Hendersonville woman accused of killing her newborn twins has been set for March 11, 2013.

Lindsey Lowe was in Sumner County court on Thursday morning.

If necessary, the judge said the trial will continue into the week of March 18, 2013.

The judge said lawyers must have all reports finished by July 15. The deadline for discovery will be September 13.

Lindsey Lowe is charged with two counts of murder. The 25-year-old has been accused of killing both of her newborn twin boys after they were born in a toilet in her parents' home on September 12, 2011. Her father discovered one of the babies in a laundry basket two days later and called 911.

Lowe allegedly admitted to smothering the infants so her parents would not hear them cry.

In a preliminary hearing, a detective testified that the father of the newborn twins was not Lowe's fiance, but rather a man she had an affair with in December 2010 and January 2011.

Lowe has pleaded not guilty in the murders. The district attorney announced in November that they would not seek the death penalty.

Each count of murder carries the possibility of a life sentence.

Lowe has been free on bond since shortly after her arrest.

http://www.newschannel5.com/story/18479498/trial-date-set-for-woman-accused-of-killing-twins