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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Catherine Hoggle: Did mentally ill mom kill kids?

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

News, True Crime

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Sarah and Jacob Hoggle were 4 and 2when they vanished 2 years ago. Catherine Hoggle told police she gave her kids away, but prosecutors accuse the Maryland mom of murdering them. Hoggle, who has been in a mental health facility since her arrest soon after they disappeared, has now been indicted for their murders and moved to a jail. But she cannot be tried until a judge decides she is mentally competent. Nancy Grace is joined by forensics expert Sheryl McCollum reporter Cheryl White.

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0:00.0

February 2004, Maura Murray empties her bank account, drives four hours from school, crashes

0:06.5

her car, and vanishes.

0:09.3

Join the search as an investigative reporter uncovers new evidence, interrogates new witnesses,

0:14.9

traces down new leads in this riveting new investigative series, The Disappearance

0:20.7

of Maura Murray, Saturdays, 7, 6 Central, and 9, 8 Central on Oxygen, the new network

0:28.6

for crime.

0:34.7

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace on Sirius XM Triumph Channel 132

0:40.7

A mixture of grief and anguish for the family, not knowing what happened to two-year-old

0:45.5

Jacob and three-year-old Sarah.

0:47.6

In September of 2014, the children's mother, Katherine Hoggel, told Montgomery County Police

0:52.4

that she left her children with a friend, but she's never said who or where.

0:56.9

The children's father, Troy Taylor, believes she knows exactly what happened.

1:00.7

Katherine Hoggel has murdered my children.

1:03.0

She was leaving Troy.

1:04.2

Her main thing is sick with control.

1:06.0

That's her biggest sickness.

1:07.0

She did not want him to have the kids.

1:09.0

Mental health professionals have repeatedly found Hoggel not competent to stand trial.

1:13.6

The state can keep Katherine Hoggel locked up for five years, or why they try to restore

1:17.6

her competency.

1:19.0

If she remains incompetent in five years, she may have to be released.

1:23.9

Two children, a two-year-old little boy, a three-year-old little girl missing.

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