There were two more murders 15 miles away.

When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.

We have a weird homicide.

A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...

Morning.

A cop of murder.

Finding someone you trust with your children can be difficult, especially when you are desperate to find some help. On January 1, 1963,

a young girl, a baby, was killed by a woman who was trusted with her care, a woman with a long,

dark history who, maybe, shouldn't have been trusted with the care of a child. So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled,

sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.

On January 1, 1963, Irma Gerberich of Phoenix, Arizona,

was cooking breakfast when her six-year-old son ran into the kitchen shouting,

Mama, Sandy's dead. Horrified, the young mother ran into the room and found her 15-month-old daughter,

Sandy, had been strangled to death. The woman responsible, 20-year-old, live-in babysitter Betty Smithy,

had only been working for the Gerberick family for less than a week. Betty, who fled the house

before the discovery, was found hitchhiking along the highway between Tucson and Nagalas the following

day, and when speaking to a patrol officer, told the man, I think I hurt the baby.

I may have used a stocking.

After attempting to take her own life in the Pima County Jail that night, Betty would go on to make a

number of confusing statements about what happened to Sandy Gerberich.

Hired to care for the four Gerberich children while

Irma was at work, Betty said the child had been crying. But in an interview read by the prosecutor

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