Sleep In Heavenly Peace (Pinnacle True Crime) by M. William Phelps

Author:M. William Phelps
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
Published: 2006-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

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SCILEPPI AND STREEVER had one more bit of business to take care of before they could present Steve Lungen with Odell’s statement: Baby Number Three.

“We went back and forth, back and forth with her,” Scileppi recalled, “and she started to open up more and more. Once again, it was never a question of: she didn’t want to talk to us.”

To the contrary, Scileppi insisted, Odell was openly discussing the birth and death of each child, as if she were getting some sort of self-gratification from revealing such dark secrets. Streever and Scileppi, sitting, listening, felt Odell needed to talk.

Later, Odell’s version of the night would differ substantially. She said she felt intimidated and pushed into confessing, not to mention scared of implicating her mother or father. But her statement didn’t refer to her dad or mom being involved in the deaths of the babies. The only references to her parents refer to the abuse Odell had suffered from them. She never stated that either one had had anything to do with the deaths of the babies.

“About six months [after Baby Number Two was born], I was dating a man whose first name began with an H, although I’m not totally sure of his first name,” Odell said as Streever typed.

It was pushing 2:00 A.M. and Scileppi and Streever were exhausted. Odell was showing signs of breaking down, Streever and Scileppi recalled, but demanded they finish what they started.

“We dated for about six weeks. During this time, I became pregnant again.”

When she found out she was pregnant, Odell said, she was no longer dating the man she now called “H.”

“Due to the same circumstances of fear of my mother’s reaction and lack of financial or emotional support, I elected to have the child at home and without medical assistance.”

For Scileppi and Streever, the same pattern that had been present throughout her previous two pregnancies presented itself again: whenever there wasn’t a male figure in Odell’s life and she became pregnant, the baby ended up being wrapped in plastic and put in a cardboard box.

She further explained how she had carried the child full-term without anyone realizing she was pregnant, including Mabel. By this time, she and Mabel were living together in the same apartment, along with her three living children. Yet, she said, Mabel and the kids lived on one side of the apartment and she lived on the opposite side.

Each side, she claimed, had its own bathroom.

The day of the birth, she said, started out with explosive “lower-back pain,” which, to Odell, meant labor. She had given birth six times previously, so she knew by then when labor began. It was later that night, in February or March 1985, she couldn’t recall exactly which month, when she went into full-fledged labor. In fact, she remembered, she had been sleeping and the labor pains were so severe, they woke her out of a deep sleep.

“After getting on the toilet, my water broke. Within a short period of time, I was in full labor and situated myself on the bathroom floor….

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