Love so deadly. I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leib. And this is Ghost Town.

There's a small group of plots in a cemetery in Waterville, Maine.

Six of them are children, three children under the age of seven, three died in 1954,

and the other three in 1966. This is the family plot of Carl and Constance Fisher,

a family tormented by mental illness, so much so that Constance drowned all of her children

into horrifying increments that took place 12 years apart. We're going to be talking about the

Constance Fisher tragedy today, and it is a tragedy that is so, this is one of the hard ones.

I'll say it. It's one of the, it's a hard episode, everybody. It is, I think it's important to talk

about. I think it's important to talk about the context, the nature of mental illness,

especially in this situation, but I'm just putting it out there. It is not going to be easy.

Constance, Siroa, I think I'm saying her name right, was a child of adoption. She never knew her

biological parents. She was a moody kid, a handful to her adopted family. She was not really happy

growing up. When Carl and Constance met, Constance was a 17-year-old high school student, and Carl

was a World War II vet, seven years her senior. This kind of felt like maybe an answer to her

unhappiness, to feeling displaced, to feeling like she didn't belong. After they married 1946,

Carl got a job working for the main central railroad, and Constance was a housewife.

The two lived peacefully at 31 High Street in Waterville, Maine, and had three kids, Richard,

Daniel, and Deborah Kay. On March 8th, 1954, Carl returned home from work and found things

silent, which was weird considering his oldest son was almost seven. His middle child was five,

and his small daughter was about a year old. Carl walked through the house. Daniel and Deborah

were still laying in their beds, swaddled in blankets. Then he stepped into the bathroom and saw

Richard and the tub floating face down. Carl looked frantically for Constance who he couldn't find.

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