Several Michelle Bica Stories (Killer of Pregnany Woman)
Maggie
Woman Suspected of Stealing Fetus Had Husband Convinced She Was Pregnant
Oct. 4, 2000 | 12:16 a.m.
By SUSAN RUIZ PATTON
MICHAEL SANGIACOMO@
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RAVENNA, Ohio -- They met in jail, where he was a guard and she was an inmate.
And now their dream of building a family together is over.
Michelle M. Bica is dead and her husband, Thomas, is mourning her death and the
loss of a son the couple celebrated as their own.
Investigators believe Michelle Bica pretended to be pregnant and then kidnapped
a neighbor, delivered the child, killed the mother, and passed the boy off as
her own.
The grisly tale ended when the 39-year-old former inmate killed herself as
police knocked on the door of the Ravenna home she shared with her husband. The
baby boy, named Michael by the Bicas, was unhurt.
In 1994, Michelle M. Zonko met her future husband in Portage County Jail, where
she spent six months after getting caught taking nearly $10,000 from her
employer, Allen Aircraft Co. in Ravenna. She received probation and a fine
after pleading not guilty by reason of insanity.
``They met and fell in love,'' said Paul Earle, who represented Zonko in the
case. ``It was like the couple in that movie, `Raising Arizona.''' He declined
to comment on her mental health, saying it would violate attorney-client
privilege.
In December 1997, while still on probation, Zonko married Thomas Bica, a
Portage County Jail corrections officer, in her hometown of Tallmadge, Ohio.
He continued to work at the jail and Bica told neighbors that she worked out of
her home for the bursar's office of Kent State University. She balked when
asked by neighbors for details. A spokesman for the university said Bica never
worked for them.
They lived in a two-story white home on Mill Street in Ravenna that Thomas
inherited from his grandmother. They fixed it up and dreamed of building a
family. Neighbors recalled the many references Thomas and Michelle made to
``when they had children.''
So it was a blow to them when Michelle miscarried a year ago.
When the couple announced her second pregnancy, they said they kept it a secret
for a few months because of the first miscarriage.
The heavy-set, short woman wore maternity clothes all year and told Renee
Pinkley, whose King Street home abuts the Bicas', that an ultrasound indicated
she was expecting a girl.
Just about three weeks ago, Michelle Bica confided to Pinkley that the
ultrasound had been wrong and the baby was a boy. She told Pinkley and another
neighbor, Tammie Reaser, that the due date had been changed from Sept. 6 to
Sept. 20.
Bica told both women that her doctors warned her the birth might have to be
induced and she was concerned that would injure the baby.
Melissa A. Zonko of Frederick, Md., Michelle Bica's sister, said she will stand
behind her.
``I cared a great deal for her,'' Zonko said. ``She was a kind person and a
great aunt to my children. I saw her in August and she told me she was pregnant
then, and she certainly looked very pregnant to me.''
But when Michelle Bica told Pinkley Friday she had delivered a baby boy,
Pinkley did not believe her. Other than wearing makeup for the first time in
months, Michelle did not look any different, she was as heavy as ever, Pinkley
said.
When asked about the labor, Michelle Bica told Pinkley she was in labor for a
scant 90 minutes and the baby's head crowned while Michelle was standing.
When it made the news that a nine-months-pregnant Andrews was missing, Michelle
Bica regularly asked neighbors if they had heard any news.
Bica's next-door neighbor, Tammie Reaser, once suggested to Bica that the
kidnappers were after the unborn baby. She said Bica did not react.
Bica had planned to put out a flag announcing the birth, but told neighbors she
did not for fear it would be offensive to the Andrews family.
Pinkley's husband, D.J., said he had a hard time believing Thomas Bica didn't
know his wife was not pregnant.
``Either he's really dumb or really smart,'' he said.
Neighbors spoke highly of Thomas Bica, a tall, burly 41-year-old man who spoke
so quietly people had to strain to hear him. He is part of a large family in
the Ravenna area. His father runs the local hardware store.
With the luxury of hindsight, neighbors yesterday said they had noticed
something strange about Michelle Bica's pregnancy.
Although Thomas Bica was exuberant, Michelle Bica seemed sad, Tammie Reaser
said. She was not as happy as one would expect a new mother to be, Reaser said.
A deadly deception
Ghastly details emerge in Ravenna murder done in quest for baby
BY KEITH MCKNIGHT
Beacon Journal staff writer
RAVENNA: The chilling reality of what had happened in their midst began to take
form early yesterday when floodlights shattered the darkness, riveting
attention on the dirt floor of the one-car garage behind 626 Mill Road.
It was shortly after 1 a.m., and police had brought shovels.
For five days, the disappearance of 23-year-old Theresa A. Andrews, who was
nine months pregnant, had confounded authorities here who seemed to know only
that she had vanished sometime after a call from a woman who inquired about
buying Andrews' Jeep.
And now, suddenly, only blocks away from where she was last seen, the neighbors
were about to witness the end of the mystery.
A half-dozen of them had kept vigil from across the street, watching the
painstaking work drag on into the night inside the illuminated garage.
``You could Tina Setser. ``It was so lit up.''
But it was not until after 3:30 a.m., following two hours of scratching and
digging in the gravel-covered dirt of the garage, that the authorities finally
reached in and pulled.
``Everybody gasped,'' Setser said. ``People started crying.''
She said she couldn't shake off the image.
The body was covered with a blanket, she recalled, yet she and the others
couldn't help but notice the distended abdomen of the victim.
``I can't get it out of my mind,'' Setser said. ``I've been in a total daze. I
can't sleep.''
Ravenna, though, was already in shock.
Hours before, at 9 p.m. Monday, when police arrived at the Mill Road home to
further question 39-year-old Michelle Bica about an account she had given them
earlier in the day about the recent birth of a son, police heard a gunshot.
From inside the house, they could hear her husband, 41-year-old Thomas Bica,
crying out Michelle's name repeatedly.
His wife had put a gun in her mouth and pulled the trigger in a locked bedroom
on the second floor of their modest five-room home. The bedroom was adjacent to
the nursery where the newborn she and her husband had named Michael Thomas Bica
lay sleeping.
Thomas Bica, a corrections officer at the Portage County Justice Center, was
taken into custody for questioning, but later released after passing a
polygraph examination.
According to Portage County Prosecutor Victor V. Vigluicci, Michelle Bica, a
large woman who in the past year had had a miscarriage, had been pretending to
be pregnant for some time and had convinced her husband that the baby was
theirs.
The child, apparently unharmed and in good condition, was taken to Robinson
Memorial Hospital in Ravenna pending positive identification, which was
expected as early as last night. The body, removed from the shallow grave and
taken to the Summit County Medical Examiner's office for autopsy, was
identified as Theresa Andrews.
The crime, as described by Portage County authorities, ranked as one of the
most bizarre and gruesome in years.
The abdomen of Theresa Andrews had been cut open horizontally, apparently to
accommodate the removal of the child from his mother's womb.
Last night, Portage County Coroner Roger Marcial said Andrews had been shot to
death before her abdomen was cut open.
She was shot in the left upper back with a bullet, probably from a .22-caliber
handgun, Marcial said.
The bullet penetrated her left lung and her heart, Marcial said, in announcing
the results of autopsies Summit County Medical Examiner Marvin S. Platt
conducted yesterday on Andrews and Bica.
Marcial said Andrews was probably shot with the same gun Bica used to take her
own life.
According to Marcial, traces of blood found in the Bica house indicate Theresa
Andrews was shot in the first-floor laundry room of the home and her body
dragged to the garage.
Earlier in the day, Marcial also noted that for the infant to be alive and
healthy, the removal of the baby had to have occurred before or almost
simultaneously with the mother's death.
Baby is no secret
However, despite all the grisly details of how the child was born, his arrival
at the Bica home was apparently anything but secret.
In fact, Michelle and Thomas Bica had already sent out announcements to friends
and family, telling of the birth of ``Michael Thomas Bica,'' at 7 pounds, 8
ounces and 21 inches in length, a police official said.
According to that announcement, ``mom and baby are doing fine,'' the police
official said.
Thomas Bica told police his wife showed him his new son for the first time last
Wednesday afternoon.
He had gone straight home after he got off work at 2:50 p.m. at the county
jail, said Portage County Sheriff Duane Kaley, who participated with the
Ravenna police in a 10-hour interrogation of Thomas Bica Monday night and early
yesterday.
According to Kaley, Thomas Bica filed a written request to take off from work
to spend time with the new baby whom the Bicas had nicknamed ``Mikey.''
Thomas Bica also told police that he had met his future wife through a mutual
acquaintance before she served a nearly six-month jail sentence in 1994 on a
theft conviction, Kaley said.
At the time she was booked into the jail, she was known by her maiden name,
Michelle M. Zonko.
She described herself as being mentally stable, but said she suffered from low
blood sugar, according to booking records.
At that time, records show, she was 5 feet, 3 inches tall and 180 pounds, with
red hair and blue eyes.
She then listed her occupation as a food manager for Taco Bell in Phoenix.
Sheriff's deputies extradited her from Arizona.
Theresa Andrews had been missing since last Wednesday, when she was to meet a
woman who had called about a Jeep Wrangler that she and her husband, Jonathan,
were attempting to sell.
She called her husband about 9 a.m. that day to say she was going to meet
someone, and that was the last time they ever spoke to each other.
Her husband told police he tried to reach her several times later that day
without success.
Then, when he returned to their West Riddle Avenue home and found the door
unlocked and both the Jeep and his wife gone, he called police.
The Jeep was found a few hours later in a parking lot about 200 feet behind the
Andrewses' home.
Vigluicci said telephone records obtained by police showed that a call from
Thomas Bica's cellular phone was made to the Andrewses' home on the day Theresa
vanished.
The keys to the Andrewses' Jeep, Vigluicci said, were later found in Michelle
Bica's purse.
Investigators, meanwhile, were conducting DNA tests to verify that the infant
is indeed the child of Theresa and Jonathan Andrews.
Grieving families
In the interim, grieving family members streamed in and out of Robinson
Memorial Hospital, visiting the baby.
A hospital spokeswoman said the 8-pound, 6-ounce boy, who is 20 1/2 inches
long, was being kept in an undisclosed location in the hospital for safety
reasons.
The child, now named Oscar Gavin Andrews, is healthy but is expected to remain
in the hospital for the next few days, she said.
``Each time a new family member comes, the tears come as well,'' she said.
``But the family very much enjoyed being with the baby. They are a wonderful
family -- very strong.''
Through the hospital spokeswoman, the family released a brief plea, referring
all calls to their attorney, Nicholas Phillips of Middleburg Heights.
``The family has been through a lot in two days,'' the statement said, ``and
would request some private time.''
Phillips said the father chose the baby's name as a living memory to his wife,
who favored Oscar as a first name, while the father had preferred Gavin.
The attorney was also working yesterday to resolve the custody issue of the
child while officials are awaiting the DNA results.
In the interim, while the county retains formal custody, the baby will remain
in the hospital with unlimited visitation given to the Andrews family.
Phillips said while the date hasn't been formalized by court action, evidence
indicates that Oscar was born Sept. 27 -- the day Theresa Andrews disappeared.
A threat of infection that had loomed over the child because of a medical
condition of the mother was eliminated, he said, because the child was not born
vaginally.
In Streetsboro yesterday, two dozen cars or more lined the 10000 block of
Hazelton Drive as family and well-wishers, some carrying covered dishes of
food, converged on the small duplex home of Jim and Vicki Giarrano, the parents
of Theresa Andrews.
A police officer posted in a squad car in front of the house turned away
reporters, saying the family wanted to be left alone.
Likewise at the home of Thomas Bica's parents, Theresa and Michael Bica, tucked
away on a tree-lined, secluded stretch of Ravenna Road in Kent, nobody had
anything to say.
Thomas Bica reportedly had gone there following his interrogation by police.
The Bica family, as Prosecutor Vigluicci noted during yesterday's press
conference, is very well known in Ravenna.
Thomas Bica's father, Michael, owned a heating and plumbing business before
retiring recently.
One of Thomas Bica's brothers operates Bica Plumbing and Heating in Ravenna and
another relative runs a locksmith business.
Neighbor tells story
At 626 Mill Road yesterday afternoon, a steady procession passed by on foot and
in cars, slowing as they came abreast of the two-story frame house behind
strands of yellow police tape.
Under the brass mailbox, next to the front door of the neatly kept house with
an American flag hanging from the front porch, was a sign that said, ``Welcome
To Our Porch.''
Next-door neighbor Ralph Reaser, who stood on his front porch, said that on
Saturday he was invited into the Bica home to see the couple's newborn baby.
``Tom was out mowing the lawn and Michelle told me to come over and see the
baby,'' he said. ``I didn't have much time because we were having a birthday
party for my 7-year-old. . . . The baby was asleep on the living room couch.
She said that the baby was already sleeping through the night.
``I think they told me the baby's name was Michael.''
Reaser, 39, said the Bicas were a nice couple who moved in a little more than
two years ago. Reaser said during the brief visit that Tom was in a good mood,
but that Michelle seemed ``depressed.''
Reaser said that he was surprised that his next-door neighbor had a baby; he
wasn't aware that she was pregnant.
``She didn't look pregnant, but it was hard to tell. She was a heavyset
woman.''
Reaser said his wife, Tammie, convinced him that Michelle was indeed pregnant.
According to Reaser, Michelle Bica told him that she delivered the baby either
Tuesday night or Wednesday night about 7.
``She said the head started coming when she was at the house and she called an
ambulance,'' Reaser said. ``She had the baby in the ambulance on the way to
Akron General Hospital.''
On Wednesday, the day Andrews disappeared, Reaser said he remembers Bica
``messing with, raking'' gravel near the garage door while he was out on his
daily morning jog.
``I remember feeling guilty on Saturday when we went to see the baby because on
Wednesday I hadn't offered to help Michelle with the gravel,'' Reaser said.
He said when he offered his apologies Michelle Bica shrugged it off, saying
that she had had an easy delivery.
In a race with time, call trace took days
Police put in request on Thursday. Ameritech began search Friday, made a
connection Monday
BY ED MEYER
Beacon Journal staff writer
One day after Theresa Andrews was reported missing by her husband, police made
their first formal request for records of phone calls to the Andrews'
residence.
That request to Ameritech came late in the day last Thursday, according to
officials at Ameritech. On Friday, the phone company began processing the
request.
And it was not until Monday that police discovered in the phone records
evidence that pointed to 39-year-old Michelle Bica of Ravenna as the chief
suspect in the disappearance of Theresa Andrews.
The timing of the request for phone records and Ameritech's response were among
the key questions that arose yesterday as Portage County prosecutors and
Ravenna police explained the circumstances of the 23-year-old woman's abduction
and murder during a news conference at Ravenna City Hall.
Theresa Andrews was in the final days of pregnancy with her first child when
she disappeared last Wednesday. In the last conversation with her husband that
day, Theresa said a woman had called to say she wanted to see a 1999 Jeep
Wrangler the couple had listed for sale.
In phone records obtained by police, investigators found a call from a phone
belonging to Thomas Bica, Michelle Bica's husband, to the victim's residence on
the day Theresa Andrews disappeared.
It took several days to obtain the phone records, said Portage County
Prosecutor Victor V. Vigluicci, because his office had to issue subpoenas to
dozens of phone companies and, once that was done, examine all of the records.
Vigluicci said the records were ``from a number of carriers -- some big, some
small, some local, some international.''
Ameritech spokesperson Ilana Isakov said the first request for the Andrews'
local phone records came late Thursday and in the form of an investigative
subpoena from Vigluicci's office. Isakov said the phone company began
processing that request Friday, two days after Andrews was reported missing.
She would not say at what point in the day on Friday that the company actually
began providing records to the prosecutor's office.
``That has been ongoing,'' Isakov said. ``I will tell you that the prosecutor's
office has said that they have received all of the information that they
sought.''
Neither Vigluicci nor Ravenna Police Chief Randall McCoy returned phone calls
seeking comment on the timing of the telephone records requests.
However, an attorney representing the Andrews family praised the police
yesterday for their work in trying to find Theresa Andrews.
Such horrific actions rare, says expert on syndrome
Psychiatrist says very few women desperate enough to cut baby from womb
BY TRACY WHEELER
Beacon Journal medical writer
Each case sounds eerily similar.
A woman, disappointed by infertility or miscarriages, claims to be pregnant.
Her husband, family and friends, fooled by nonexistent symptoms and made-up
doctor's appointments, believe her.
Then, with the ninth month of this fictitious pregnancy approaching, the woman
becomes desperate to find a baby.
Someone else's baby.
She's usually desperate enough to kill another woman in order to kidnap the
child.
Such a scenario plays out 12 to 18 times a year, according to the National
Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Even more rare, however, are cases, like the one that unfolded yesterday in
Ravenna, in which a woman who wants a baby kidnaps and kills a pregnant woman,
cutting her baby from the womb.
``You're talking about just a handful of cases,'' said Dr. Phillip Resnick, a
psychiatry professor at Case Western Reserve University. ``You're talking less
than one case a year in the United States.''
The method is more gruesome in those cases, he said, but the motive is the
same.
``The common theme is a desperate desire to have a baby,'' he said. ``Some are
psychotic, some aren't. Some will be very immature. Some will be very
hard-hearted and simply want what they want. But they're all desperate to have
a baby -- to the point that it becomes an obsession.''
The body of Theresa A. Andrews was found early yesterday buried in a shallow
grave at the home of Thomas and Michelle Bica. Andrews' child had been cut from
her body. Michelle Bica committed suicide when police came to question her.
Resnick is not involved in the Ravenna case and didn't speculate on Michelle
Bica's state of mind. But on the surface, this case sounds similar to others
with which he is familiar.
Women who do this, he said, are not necessarily psychotic or insane. Psychosis,
he explained, is a mental state in which the person is delusional or out of
touch with reality.
``A person who does this,'' he said, ``can be quite rational.''
As an example, Resnick pointed to a case in Albuquerque, N.M.
Nineteen-year-old Darci Pierce was only three hours from having labor induced
on July 23, 1987. Only she wasn't pregnant. She had lied to her husband and her
doctor. So she waited in the parking lot of an obstetrician's office, looking
for a pregnant woman.
When 23-year-old Cindy Ray left the doctor's office, Pierce abducted her and
drove to a secluded area. Using a set of car keys, Pierce performed a cesarean
section on Ray.
Then as Ray lay dying, Pierce drove herself to the hospital where she was to
have labor induced. No need, she said, holding the baby. But doctors became
suspicious when Pierce -- covered to her thighs in mud and blood -- refused to
be examined.
The baby was returned to Ray's husband. Pierce was arrested, charged with
murder and found ``guilty but mentally ill'' by a jury.
``She wanted a baby and went to an OB clinic, abducted a pregnant woman at
gunpoint, used car keys to extract the baby and pretended the baby was her
own,'' said Resnick, who interviewed Pierce for the prosecution and published
an article on the case in the January 1993 issue of the Journal of Forensic
Sciences. ``It's all very rational. It's callous, in that she's willing to
sacrifice someone else's life for her goal. But the planning was very
rational.''
In the case of Michelle Bica, family and neighbors said she had claimed to be
pregnant.
Resnick said there are two types of fake pregnancies -- those in which the
woman knows she's lying, and those in which she convinces herself she is
pregnant, to the point that her body looks and acts as if it were pregnant -- a
condition known as pseudocyesis
It's not clear which category Bica fit into.
Resnick stressed that such cases are rare.
``Some crimes engender copycats, but this is not one of them,'' he said. ``This
is a bizarre situation. I don't think any pregnant women should be looking over
their shoulders worrying that this will happen to them.''
Maggie
Fun Facts:
Murderers who kill male victims receive 40% shorter sentences than murderers
who kill female victims (AOTBE).
GrayHairedHippie
2000 in alt.true-crime:
>She described herself as being mentally stable, but said she suffered
>from low blood sugar, according to booking records.
That is such crap. My sister was married to a man who turned about to be
an abusive beast. He got off on a blood sugar defense when he was charged.
Give the world a box of Twinkies and we all go mad.
--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Donna
"I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now."
WyrdWoman
>
> Although Thomas Bica was exuberant, Michelle Bica seemed
> sad, Tammie Reaser said. She was not as happy as one would
> expect a new mother to be, Reaser said.
Good god, I wasn't "happy" after I had my daughter. After coming home
from the hospital, reality hits you and it's not necessarily an easy
thing to deal with, especially if you can't get any sleep. This
statement alone isn't enough of a red flag in my book, since post-partum
depression is such a common thing.
--
WyrdWoman
Hester Mofet
unless he is really stupid.
Hester Mofet
JonesieCat
"Maggie" <maggi...@aol.comSPAMBLOC> wrote in message
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Early on, it seemed the phone records might save Theresa's life, if she were
being held somewhere. As it turns out, the info about the delay in obtaining
them indicates they could not have saved her life, since it sounds like
Theresa Andrews died the same day she was abducted. I'm glad the delay
doesn't figure into the timing of her death.
Since it looks like she was shot in the back in the laundry room of
Michelle's house, Theresa may not have been aware of what was going on. I
know she left her door unlocked at home, but if she was just ducking out for
a quick ride with this woman, who she may have known very casually from the
neighborhood in this small town, it may not have been a big deal. And if
Michelle said (as they were driving the jeep), oh, I live just right here,
come in and see the nursery I've set up for *my* expected baby, Theresa
might have felt obligated to step in for a minute. Then the rest happens...
Michelle parks the jeep elsewhere and walks home... I prefer to think
Theresa didn't realize what was going to happen to her and to her baby.
This excerpt from the first article is chilling: "Bica told both women that
her doctors warned her the birth might have to be induced and she was
concerned that would injure the baby." Induced indeed. God.
JonesieCat
AgonyInBlk
>How did the husband NOT know?There is no way he didn't know what was going
>on,
>unless he is really stupid.>>
Well, could be. Normally, I;d agree with you 100%. I'm suspicious by nature, so
I'd think that for most things, it would take a lot to convince me he didn't
know. But, if a teenage girl can carry & deliver a child, and keep her family
from knowing she was pregnant, I wonder how tough it would be to complain about
morning sickness, but never really throw up, behind closed doors. To hide the
fact she was still getting (I'd assume) her period. To maybe put on a few
pounds, eat some weird foods, and when her stomach acted up, grabbed hubby's
hand and slap it over a gas pocket quick and exclaim, "Did you feel the baby
kicking?!" when it was really the fish tacos with chocolate sauce and lima bean
yogurt she'd been eating.
Could somebody convince their husband they *were* pregnant...Yeah, on the
surface, I'd be doubtful. But, if you worked at it as hard as those who have
been able to completely *hide* a pregnancy, I'd have to say it was possible.
Best,
JM
(who does agree, though, the guy *could* just be a bozo...)
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>
>>How did the husband NOT know?There is no way he didn't know what was going
>>on,
>>unless he is really stupid.>>
>
>Well, could be. Normally, I;d agree with you 100%. I'm suspicious by nature,
>so
>I'd think that for most things, it would take a lot to convince me he didn't
>know. But, if a teenage girl can carry & deliver a child, and keep her family
>from knowing she was pregnant, I wonder how tough it would be to complain
>about
>morning sickness, but never really throw up, behind closed doors. To hide
>the
>fact she was still getting (I'd assume) her period. To maybe put on a few
>pounds, eat some weird foods, and when her stomach acted up, grabbed hubby's
>hand and slap it over a gas pocket quick and exclaim, "Did you feel the
>baby
>kicking?!" when it was really the fish tacos with chocolate sauce and lima
>bean
>yogurt she'd been eating.
>
>Could somebody convince their husband they *were* pregnant...Yeah, on the
>surface, I'd be doubtful. But, if you worked at it as hard as those who
>have
>been able to completely *hide* a pregnancy, I'd have to say it was possible.
>
obese woman. The delivery, though, would be pretty difficult to finesse. How
dumb can a guy be to think that his wife checked herself into a hospital one
morning while he was at work and took a cab home with her new baby before he
got off?
GrayHairedHippie
2000 in alt.true-crime:
>***I agree that a pregnancy could be successfully faked--particularly by
>an obese woman. The delivery, though, would be pretty difficult to
>finesse. How dumb can a guy be to think that his wife checked herself
>into a hospital one morning while he was at work and took a cab home
>with her new baby before he got off?
>
Women do not stay in the hospital very long after a birth, but I'm
wondering, where was the "prenatal care" and the bills related to same?
Surely any pregnant woman has some bills ahead of the birth unless she
doesn't know she's pregnant. (I do have a personal friend who went to the
ER about 20 years ago and ended up giving birth to a beautiful baby girl,
never knowing beforehand that she was pregnant.)
The husband has some 'splainin' to do, but I suspect what's going to come
of any statement from him is the reality that he was just plain clueless
and took her word for gospel.
Maggie
**I bet she handled the paperwork for insurance and convinced him that it was
all paid for by their carrier.
glas
news:20001004235447...@ng-cd1.aol.com...
I too find it hard to believe that he wouldn't have known something was
wrong. However, what Michelle did was so out of the norm that a reasonable
person would deduce that was what had transpired.
I feel sorry for all the people involved in this situation. It is hard to
have any sympathy for anyone that has inflicted the horrors that Michelle
has but she must have been very sick in the head to have gone to this
extreme.
glas