Mum scalded son's genitals and dumped body in freezer before eerie Facebook post
WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: A brother and sister were tortured and beaten to death by their own mother Mitchelle Blair before the bodies were dumped in a freezer - but the shocking crime went unnoticed for years
It is approaching 10 years since mum-of-four Mitchelle Blair was sentenced to life in prison for torturing and killing two of her children in separate attacks. On both occasions, she dumped the bodies in the deep freezer of her apartment, before carrying on as normal.
She pleaded guilty to her sickening crimes and speaking to the court, she said: 'I don't feel no remorse for the death of them demons.' The victims were Stoni Blair, 13, and her brother, Stephen Berry, who was just nine, and below, we take a look back at the disturbing case.
'House of Horrors'
Mitchelle Blair was living in an apartment in Detroit, Michigan, when she was served an eviction notice – that uncovered unimaginable horror.
She had not been paying rent and a team arrived on March 24, 2015, to clear the flat. However, two of Blair's children, Stoni and Stephen, were found in the white freezer that was kept in the family living room. They had been there for years.
Blair claimed responsibility – saying she did what she did because the deceased children allegedly sexually abused her youngest son, something which was never proven.
The mum did not witness the alleged molestation. She also failed to contact the authorities, and instead, took matters into her own hands.
Little Stephen was the first to be tortured. In August 2012, his mum poured hot water on his genitals while he was in the shower. She also punched and kicked him and strangled him with a belt after making him drink Windex. A bag was placed over his head until he lost consciousness. The torture reportedly went on for two weeks before his eventual death.
Stoni was killed almost nine months later after she reportedly said she did not like her siblings. Blair subsequently strangled her little girl with 'a black T-shirt and suffocated her with a plastic bag'.
Stephen's cause of death was multiple blunt force trauma while his sister died of blunt trauma to the head. After killing Stoni, she forced her other daughter, then 17, to 'entomb' the body in the freezer next to Stephen's corpse.
Before their deaths, Blair would reportedly batter the kids and burn them with irons inside the apartment.
Court
Shortly before Blair was arrested for her heinous crimes, she brazenly wrote on Facebook: 'There is no greater blessing than being called Mom.' While pleading guilty to killing her children, Blair, found competent to stand trial, told the court: 'I don't regret none of this.'
She claimed she intended to kill Stoni in 2013 but did not set out to do the same to Stephen when he died in 2012.
Blair also had two other kids, a son and a daughter, and her surviving boy reportedly told a social worker he was once whipped by a cord and his sister was struck with a hammer.
Prison
In July 2015, Blair was sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing two of her kids. This was after pleading guilty to two counts of felony murder, two counts of premeditated murder and one count of torture.
Wayne County Circuit Judge Dana Hathaway said she formed a 'house of horrors' before adding: 'I do pray that your remaining children will recover from what they saw and endured in that household.
'They lived in terrible fear of you. And I find that just so sad in this case. After all is said and done, you imposed the death penalty on your own children.'
Blair, who will never be freed, was reportedly serving her sentence inside the Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Ypsilanti.
There, many unsavoury incidents have been reported involving her, including using a Pringles can to chuck urine and faeces into the face of a corrections officer. She also reportedly hit an officer in the arm and stomach in a separate incident.
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