anatomicdeadspace:
Scribbling on a door in the house where mass murderer Banita Jacks killed her four children. One of the phrases reads, ‘Yes I do love mom’.
Banita Jacks was convicted of murdering her four daughters, She had been described as a caring and attentive mother up until the death of her partner Nathaniel Fogle, who had fathered two of her children. After he passed she became increasingly isolated, when neighbours saw the family the children were dressed in dirty clothes and rags - despite previously being well presented. Social workers and police were involved with the Jacks family but did nothing to intervene, with some reports on visits only being filed the day that the bodies of the children were discovered. Jacks’ behaviour became increasingly bizarre, moving all of her furniture out of the house into the back yard and losing a significant amount of weight - informing neighbours when they saw her that she had cancer.
The bodies of the children were discovered when marshals came to serve Jacks an eviction notice. She answered the door dressed only in a white t-shirt and refused the marshals entry. They forced their way in, immediately smelling the scent of decay, and found the bodies of the three youngest children lined up according to age in a bedroom, with the eldest daughter found in another bedroom, lying in a pool of blood.
The three youngest had been strangled to death, with the eldest daughter having been stabbed repeatedly. During questioning it was revealed that Jacks’ believed her eldest daughter had been possessed by demons, and had been corrupting her younger siblings. She explained that her children had died in their sleep, as she had stopped feeding them.
She was sentenced to 120 years in prison.




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