Spoiled College Girl Thinks Killing a Baby is Hilarious
In today's true crime documentary, we're covering the case of Emile Weaver.
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In today's true crime documentary, we're covering the case of Emile Weaver.
We're a news agency committed to delivering factual information about police procedures and local news events. This video aims to educate the public without bias. Our goal is to empower viewers with a clear understanding of what's happening in their communities.
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00:00We got a newborn baby, it's been discarded. Looks like it's dead.
00:04You knew that you were pregnant, right or wrong?
00:08For sure, for a complete fact, no. I did not know completely, absolutely, positively.
00:15You realize that we have your computer.
00:19That's not my computer, sir.
00:21I didn't really have much concern for the baby. I was more concerned about my well-being and taking care of myself.
00:27Then they turned over, like, pictures, and I really hope they're not trying to show pictures in the courtroom.
00:34When a horrifying discovery is found in a trash bag outside a sorority house at Muskingum University,
00:41suspicion falls on a young college student.
00:44As investigators dive into the truth behind the gruesome find, unsettling evidence begins to emerge,
00:50leaving them to question, is the suspect telling the whole truth?
00:54Or is there more to the story than she's leading them to believe?
00:58Because he told me it's going to come down to who do they believe, me or the coroner?
01:03Details of the chilling incident that took place on Wednesday, April 22, 2015, in New Concord, Ohio,
01:10begin to emerge in a conversation recorded between the student, Emily, and her mother, Sandra.
01:15Did anyone knock at the door?
01:16Yeah, somebody tried to get in the bathroom and knock at the door, but there was no sound whatsoever.
01:21The door was locked. They could not get in. Nobody answered.
01:24I don't know any of this, because you would have trouble.
01:28It began when Emily's sorority sisters found a tightly knotted trash bag resting against the side of the house.
01:35They tore it open, uncovering a terrifying scene that would soon send shockwaves through the entire community.
01:41Hey, it's Tim, University PD. I'm going to need you to send a deputy over here to 125 Lakeside.
01:47We got a newborn baby. It's been discarded. Looks like it's dead.
01:52Okay. Disclosed on the way, too.
01:54Yep. Thanks. Bye.
01:55Police quickly arrived at the sorority house where 12 young women lived while attending the nearby university.
02:02While it was unclear at the time what pointed witnesses to one specific resident,
02:06everyone believed the mother of the child to be 20-year-old Emily Weaver.
02:11Detective Todd Maley from the Muskingum County Sheriff's Office conducted a brief interrogation with Emily,
02:16documenting their exchange.
02:19At first, Emily denied having a baby, but faced with the fact that DNA evidence could connect them,
02:24she admitted the child was hers.
02:27With the hopes of uncovering how such a horrific tragedy may have happened,
02:31the detective returns the following day to question Emily once again.
02:34However, little could prepare the detective for the shocking truths he'll soon learn as their conversation unfolds.
02:41When I first came over here yesterday and we first met, you lied at first about being pregnant.
02:48Yes.
02:49And then you ended up admitting that you were.
02:53What happened yesterday morning?
02:57Uh, like, for sure, from, like, me having a baby.
03:02Of course, you were pregnant.
03:03Did anybody know about that?
03:06Tell me about that.
03:08No.
03:08No one knew about that.
03:10No, you told me that there was rumors.
03:12Yeah, because I didn't take a test or anything.
03:15However, it would later be revealed that Emily did take a pregnancy test at the university's wellness center.
03:22They would reach out to Emily in an attempt to share the positive results,
03:25but their calls, emails, and texts would go unanswered,
03:29begging the question,
03:31did she simply miss the messages,
03:33or did she choose to ignore them?
03:35The answers begin to reveal themselves in a series of text messages
03:39later uncovered between Emily and her ex-boyfriend, Logan.
03:42On March 18th, one month prior to giving birth,
03:46Emily texts,
03:47I don't know what to do besides keep it a secret,
03:50and I haven't told anyone about this situation,
03:53but it's getting harder to keep quiet about.
03:56Emily tells Logan they need to talk about the situation they're in.
04:00She accuses him of acting like nothing's going on,
04:04saying he has no consequences.
04:06Well, tell me about some of the rumors.
04:08Well, basically, I just heard it from one girl,
04:11saying it.
04:13Because my roommate is, like, talking to someone,
04:16and he said it was brought up,
04:17and some of her sorority sisters were brought it up,
04:21but, like, I've only, like, heard it come from that one source.
04:25Why didn't you want anyone to know that you were pregnant?
04:29I didn't exactly know I was pregnant.
04:31In a heated exchange on April 17th,
04:35just five days before giving birth,
04:37Emily accuses Logan of starting a war by telling others,
04:41indicating that the two of them may not have been the only ones who knew.
04:45You didn't know you were pregnant.
04:46Now, you were shown a little...
04:48I mean, I gained weight.
04:50I mean, not an excessive amount, but...
04:52When did you stop having a period?
04:56Sometime after August,
04:57but I was still, like, spotting, like, throughout.
05:00According to Detective Maley's notes from the day prior,
05:03Emily also claimed she had no visible stretch marks
05:06and experienced no nausea,
05:08symptoms usually indicative of pregnancy.
05:11But based on a pin about a baby's nursery setup
05:14she saved on her social media account
05:16and the text she sent to Logan,
05:18it's clear she was aware of her situation.
05:20And I don't want to beat you up about this,
05:23but you knew that you were pregnant, right or wrong?
05:28For sure, for a complete fact, no.
05:31I did not know completely, absolutely, positively.
05:35Emily tells Logan,
05:37I just don't know how to deal with this situation,
05:40to which he suggests she go to a clinic.
05:42Her response, I'm seven months,
05:44goes against her claims that she had no idea she was pregnant.
05:48As the detective confronts her about this knowledge,
05:50she continues to give vague answers.
05:54You suspected you were pregnant.
05:57I mean, it crossed my mind, but I didn't.
05:59Okay, and that's what you said last night.
06:02You said it crossed your mind,
06:03and I said, how did it cross your mind?
06:05And you said what?
06:07Do you remember?
06:09You told me because you gained weight.
06:12A little bit, but nothing significant.
06:16I don't believe that you went into the bathroom
06:18and had this baby,
06:21and it was a complete surprise.
06:24That's not true, is it?
06:25What?
06:26That when you went to the bathroom
06:28and had this baby,
06:31it's like, oh my gosh,
06:32I didn't know I was pregnant.
06:33I mean, that's unrealistic.
06:37Yeah, I mean, I didn't expect
06:39I was going to have a kid right there.
06:42However, alarming clues,
06:44including Emily's search history,
06:46hint that she may not have been as blind
06:48to her situation as she wants the detective to believe.
06:51Although none of this still explains
06:53what really happened to the baby.
06:55Have you looked up things on your computer,
06:59on the internet,
07:00in reference to concealing a pregnancy?
07:04What's concealing?
07:06To hide that you are pregnant.
07:09No.
07:10Have you looked up things on the internet
07:12in reference to...
07:13I don't know how you look at a pregnancy.
07:17To terminate a pregnancy.
07:21I mean, yeah, I look things up.
07:23On how to terminate a pregnancy.
07:26Or, yeah, if it came down.
07:29Okay.
07:30And most of it was like abortion.
07:32That's mostly all I seen or looked at.
07:36However, Emily may have more than considered the idea,
07:39as is revealed in a text exchange on April 17th,
07:42just five days before giving birth.
07:45Logan sends a text to Emily which reads,
07:48You should have gotten it taken care of
07:50when I told you to.
07:51In Emily's bedroom, investigators uncovered
07:54a startling new clue.
07:55But getting a straight answer as to her intentions
07:58would be no easy task.
08:00The pills that were found in your room,
08:02what were they called?
08:04Oh, it's like black.
08:07I'm trying to see.
08:09Is it black cohosh?
08:11Yeah.
08:11Are those pills to induce an early labor
08:16or to terminate a pregnancy?
08:21I mean, I think there's, like, options,
08:25but I haven't touched it in your mind.
08:27Okay.
08:28So those pills do do that?
08:31Yes.
08:32Regardless of whether she knew all along
08:34or was truly unaware,
08:36her decision to hide the truth once labor began
08:38raises disturbing questions.
08:40What was going on before the birth?
08:44I just felt like an uncomfortable pain.
08:46It's not like what you felt like on the tree.
08:48Is that what you had was an uncomfortable pain?
08:50Yeah.
08:51It wasn't anything, like, severe.
08:53It wasn't, like, I didn't think anything of it.
08:56And then...
08:57Where was it at?
08:58Where was it at?
08:59My bedroom.
09:00Like, in my bed.
09:01No, I mean, where was the pain at on you?
09:03Oh, just, like, stomach air, you know?
09:06Like, nothing, like, it wasn't low or anything.
09:08It was just, like, my stomach.
09:09And then I, like, thought I had the stomach bug
09:13because then I went to the bathroom and I kept, like,
09:15I pooped a lot.
09:17And, like, the stomach was going around
09:19and, like, one of my housemates had it.
09:21So I was like, well, maybe that's just what it is.
09:22And so, like, I was just pooped.
09:28And then I just laid back down.
09:30I didn't think anything of it.
09:31Kind of, like, there was just in and out throughout the night.
09:35And there's, like, I mean, later on,
09:37there was, like, a more, like, sharp, heavier pain
09:39that was lowered down.
09:41And I went downstairs, like I said,
09:43because I didn't, if it was the stomach bug,
09:46eight girls were upstairs.
09:47Like, I didn't want to be contagious or get it.
09:49So I figured that would be the best place to go
09:51because it would be the easiest to, like, don't go.
09:54Like, go clean and what else to do.
09:57The admission that as many as eight other girls
09:59were sleeping upstairs while she gave birth
10:01raises concerning questions about no one hearing a sound
10:05or rushing downstairs.
10:07However, this still didn't scratch the surface
10:09as a morbid question will soon cloud the entire case.
10:13So then what happened?
10:16And I just sat there and then all of a sudden, like,
10:19I just felt, like, a rip and, like, heavy pressure
10:26and then the baby came out.
10:31And where are you at in the little bathroom?
10:35Like, say, on the toilet.
10:36Okay.
10:37So you feel this pressure and you said the baby comes out.
10:42Mm-hmm.
10:42Did you scream?
10:44Can you describe how it came out and what it looked like?
10:50I mean, I didn't scream.
10:51Like, I was, like, quiet about it
10:53because I didn't, like, want anyone to, like,
10:56wake up or be concerned.
10:57So, like, it really, it wasn't, like,
11:00god-awfully painful.
11:02Like, you know, like, people hear, like, it wasn't,
11:05I mean, it hurt a little bit,
11:06but it wasn't, like, that bad.
11:09So I didn't really scream.
11:10Like, I might have, like, been breathing a little heavier,
11:12but that's about it.
11:15So when the baby came out, where did the baby go?
11:19To toilet.
11:20In a conversation with her mother later,
11:22the two hinted the possibility of disturbing
11:25photographic evidence being witnessed by others.
11:27I really hope they're not trying to show pictures
11:29in the courtroom.
11:31I have a feeling they are.
11:32I'm here on both.
11:34Okay.
11:35Describe to me the baby's position in the toilet.
11:37It was, like, laying, like, down.
11:42I'm pretty sure, like, there was,
11:44I think there was, like, paper towels, like,
11:47in the toilet it was on top of.
11:50It was, like, uh, it was basically, like,
11:54I mean, it was laying, but, like,
11:55it wasn't, like, turned in the water,
11:56you know what I mean?
11:57I think it was, like, a hedge is facing upwards.
11:59And the baby was born alive.
12:01Yeah.
12:02On April 22nd at 7.12 p.m.,
12:05just before the police arrived,
12:06Emily sent the following horrifying text to Logan.
12:11No more baby taken care of.
12:14As Logan demands to know what happened,
12:16texting,
12:16I want to know how you killed my child,
12:19she states,
12:20I went into labor last night for six hours.
12:23It was a girl with your dark hair.
12:25Adding she didn't make it due to placenta complications.
12:29However, a later shocking admission by Emily
12:31may suggest the truth is not so simple
12:33and worse than the detective could have imagined.
12:37As Emily continues her harrowing account,
12:39she tells the detective the baby was making slight movements,
12:42but was not crying.
12:44Throughout her unsettling account,
12:46she never mentions encountering other household members
12:48or hearing a knock at the bathroom door,
12:51as the phone call with her mom had suggested.
12:53I don't remember any of this stuff.
12:56I mean, they said there was no sound whatsoever.
12:59There was no you,
12:59there was no baby,
13:00there was no nothing.
13:01Whether someone may have stood just outside the door,
13:04unknowingly within earshot of what was happening inside,
13:07remains unanswered,
13:09as no witnesses have come forward.
13:11For now,
13:12the heartbreaking revelation that the baby was born alive
13:15raises troubling questions about her death
13:17and disturbing possibilities for what may have happened next.
13:21After I tried to, like,
13:22stop someone who were bleeding,
13:24like, I tried to check on the baby,
13:25and it was just, like,
13:28it really wasn't, like, doing anything.
13:30It wasn't doing anything.
13:31Now, how did you try and check?
13:34I guess I just, like,
13:37looked, and it really,
13:38it wasn't doing anything.
13:40Okay.
13:40So, you said you took the baby
13:43out of the toilet
13:45and laid it where?
13:47Just, like, on the ground.
13:49Although Emily's story may be true,
13:51it seems the detective is reluctant to believe her
13:54and might be suspecting
13:55that she's withholding a darker truth.
13:57And we talked about this last night,
14:00and I explained to you
14:01that the pathologist is going to be able to tell
14:04Yeah.
14:06the cause of death on the child.
14:10And did you do anything physically
14:13to
14:15No, I didn't do anything physically.
14:18I really, obviously,
14:19I didn't do much at all.
14:21I was more concerned
14:22about me than I was thinking.
14:26Detective Maley's notes reveal
14:28that Emily expressed concern,
14:30stating,
14:30I don't want this to seem like
14:32I intentionally killed the kid.
14:34When asked if she choked the baby,
14:36she answered,
14:37There's no way I could even comprehend
14:39something like that.
14:41Though Emily stands by her story,
14:43an autopsy report will later shed light
14:45on this tragic mystery.
14:47For now,
14:47the detective shifts the conversation
14:49to what Emily did next
14:50after giving birth.
14:52She briefly explains
14:53that she laid in bed,
14:55sleeping off and on
14:56through minor stomach pains,
14:57until about 4 p.m.
14:59in the afternoon.
15:00So then,
15:02my roommate was like,
15:03well,
15:03what do you want to do for dinner?
15:04And who was that?
15:06Paige.
15:07Okay.
15:08And I was like,
15:10I don't really know.
15:11So,
15:12then we just decided
15:13to go to McDonald's
15:14at the airport McDonald's.
15:16So how did you get there?
15:18I drove.
15:19She'd go with you?
15:20Yeah.
15:21Like,
15:22felt fine.
15:22Went to our room,
15:25sat there,
15:26ate it.
15:27Then I showered.
15:29Everything
15:30felt fine.
15:32I felt fine.
15:33So,
15:34after I showered,
15:35I was,
15:35I got on the computer.
15:37I started
15:37typing,
15:39I had a presentation
15:41due to that.
15:42So I started,
15:43like,
15:44doing it.
15:45And I didn't look anything up
15:47about the situation
15:48on the computer.
15:49So,
15:49I used to look that up.
15:51But I didn't look anything up
15:52on the computer.
15:53I just did my presentation.
15:54And then that's
15:56when
15:57our department
15:59showed up
15:59and
16:02came upstairs
16:03and said,
16:05asked if I was okay,
16:06if I felt fine.
16:08I said yes.
16:09And then
16:09that's when everyone,
16:10like,
16:12the police department
16:13came up.
16:16What Emily did
16:16with the child
16:17following the birth
16:18will soon come to light
16:19in her own
16:20harrowing admission.
16:21I want you
16:23to think about this.
16:25You know that
16:26there's going to be
16:27an autopsy on her.
16:30And I know
16:31we've went over this
16:32and I've got your answers
16:33to those questions.
16:35If any of that's not true,
16:37what you told me,
16:37I need to hear that
16:38from you
16:40because
16:41it's going to look
16:42much better on you
16:43if we hear it from you
16:45rather than hear it
16:46from the doctor.
16:47If I was going to
16:49intentionally
16:50look at it,
16:50I feel like,
16:51I mean,
16:52I would have, like,
16:53not put its head up
16:55and just let it drown.
16:56You know what I mean?
16:57That's,
16:58it wasn't like
16:59I intentionally
17:00inflicted her
17:01on the pockets.
17:02You did?
17:03Yeah.
17:04Did you try
17:05and keep her alive?
17:09I didn't do anything
17:10to
17:10keep her alive.
17:13No.
17:13Because he told me
17:14it's going to come down
17:15to who do they believe,
17:17me or the coroner.
17:18As police arrive on campus
17:20and begin to question Emily,
17:22Logan sends a panicked message,
17:24reading,
17:24What did you do?
17:26When asked what happened
17:27immediately following the birth,
17:29Emily begins recounting
17:30her actions.
17:32After giving birth,
17:33she describes
17:33going to the kitchen
17:34and returning with a knife
17:35which she used
17:36to cut the umbilical cord.
17:38Emily vividly recounts
17:40the baby's final movements
17:41before claiming
17:42they stopped altogether.
17:44Afterwards,
17:45she admits
17:45she disposed
17:46of the baby's body
17:47and other evidence
17:48in a black trash bag.
17:50Emily then lay down
17:51on the couch
17:51for around 15 minutes,
17:53leaving the trash bag
17:54on the bathroom floor.
17:56Then after that,
17:57like once I felt like
17:58I could like walk,
18:00I like went out
18:01and I took it outside
18:01and I sat just
18:03right by the house.
18:04Like it was trash day,
18:06like I could have
18:06took it to like
18:07trash bins,
18:08like the trash
18:08hadn't gone out or anything,
18:09but I just sat there
18:10and I came back in
18:12and I was still
18:13losing blood,
18:14so I just like
18:15laid like on the couch.
18:16Okay.
18:17Let me ask you this.
18:18Why did you just
18:19set her right outside
18:21the door
18:21and not somewhere else?
18:24I just didn't know.
18:26I didn't want to like
18:27travel,
18:28like I didn't want to,
18:29I didn't want to
18:31throw her like
18:32in the trash bin
18:33for like the garbage people
18:34to like throw,
18:35like just throw
18:36in the trash can.
18:37so at one point
18:39I thought about
18:39burying her,
18:40but I didn't want to
18:42like take her
18:43like away
18:44and then,
18:45because I wasn't in like,
18:46I felt like
18:47the safest like position yet
18:49because I was laying down
18:51and I was still
18:51losing blood,
18:52so I was just like,
18:52well,
18:53maybe I need to go
18:54if something doesn't
18:56stop soon,
18:57but then slowly
18:58like started
18:59slowing down.
19:00Now,
19:01why didn't you
19:02call 911?
19:03I mean,
19:05I probably should have,
19:06but I just didn't.
19:07Okay.
19:07I feel like there was
19:08nothing more to do.
19:10I just thought
19:11the baby was gone.
19:13Though we may never know
19:14what Emily had been thinking,
19:15rising tensions
19:16between Emily and Logan
19:17shed a horrifying light
19:19on the situation
19:20that foreshadowed
19:21the tragic events
19:22that would soon follow.
19:24While accusing Emily
19:25of drinking
19:25throughout her pregnancy,
19:27he tells her
19:27she might as well
19:28just kill it.
19:30Despite Emily's
19:31grim admissions
19:32and the incriminating
19:33texts,
19:34investigators still
19:35have no clear proof
19:36of exactly what
19:37happened to the baby.
19:38However,
19:39the coroner's report
19:40will soon reveal
19:40harrowing details
19:41about the child's
19:43tragic death.
19:44For now,
19:45it appears as though
19:45the detective is searching
19:46for any sign of remorse
19:48from Emily
19:48as he asks her
19:50one final question.
19:51Can you sum this up
19:53with how you feel
19:54about this?
19:57I wish it could be
19:58like,
20:00rewind
20:01the situation.
20:03Can you speak up
20:05just a little bit?
20:05I wish it was like
20:06you could go back
20:08and I could have
20:09like called
20:10one 911
20:10but I didn't.
20:14With enough evidence
20:15to charge Emily
20:15with a crime,
20:17she's taken to jail
20:17with a bond set
20:18for $1 million.
20:20While behind bars,
20:22conversations with her mom,
20:23Sandra, continue
20:24as Emily faces
20:25a critical decision
20:26to prove her innocence.
20:28I have to go to court
20:30at 2.30.
20:31Okay?
20:32I either have to take
20:3315 years
20:34or go to trial.
20:36The prosecutor
20:36just came up
20:37and was like,
20:39well, we're going
20:39to drop your,
20:40if you plead out
20:41to this,
20:41we're going to drop
20:41your two tampering
20:42of evidence charges
20:43because you've been good
20:44while you've been in jail.
20:45But he said,
20:46it comes down to you
20:46knowing this whole time
20:48about it,
20:49having conversations
20:50about it,
20:50and it just looks
20:52up on you.
20:53So go to trial,
20:54do you think?
20:55This is a good decision.
20:56I think it's your best option.
20:58All right.
20:59All I can tell you
21:00to do is pray about it.
21:02Okay.
21:03Resolved to take
21:04the case to trial,
21:05Sandra reveals
21:06their attorney's strategy
21:07to present Emily
21:08with a positive image
21:09in front of the jury.
21:10He was telling me
21:11that her explaining,
21:13oh, I need to get you
21:15about four outfits together
21:16and I need you
21:17to look young,
21:18but not like a nun.
21:20Conservative,
21:21young looking,
21:21but not like a nun.
21:23He didn't say anything
21:24about makeup
21:24or anything.
21:25I know,
21:26I feel like I can't have it.
21:27Oh, well, it's okay.
21:28You look better
21:29on your tail anyway.
21:30I feel like I'm gonna
21:31look pretty rough.
21:32My hair's gonna look ridiculous.
21:33Just have somebody braid it.
21:35In a tearful moment,
21:36Emily reflects
21:37after a discussion
21:38with her attorney,
21:39describing her feelings
21:40toward the crime
21:41in the face
21:42of the upcoming verdict.
21:43He was like,
21:44how would you find yourself?
21:45And I was like,
21:46whoa,
21:46and you say
21:48you're gonna find yourself
21:49in this.
21:50Of course,
21:50I'm gonna find myself guilty.
21:51It's my deal.
21:53I've always felt.
21:54On July 29th, 2015,
21:57after declining
21:58the 15-year plea deal,
22:0020-year-old Emily Weaver
22:01pleaded not guilty
22:02by reason of insanity.
22:04Though her motive
22:05remains unclear,
22:06the defense argued
22:07she may have been suffering
22:08from a dissociative episode
22:10due to having
22:11an unperceived pregnancy.
22:13In a statement by Emily,
22:14she explained,
22:15I didn't identify it
22:17as a human being,
22:18adding,
22:19I wasn't associating it
22:20as a baby.
22:21It was an it.
22:23At the trial,
22:24the devastating truth
22:25of what happened
22:25to the child
22:26was finally revealed.
22:28According to the autopsy,
22:29the coroner concluded
22:30the baby died
22:31of asphyxiation.
22:33On May 13th, 2016,
22:36a jury found her
22:37guilty of aggravated murder,
22:39abuse of a corpse,
22:40and two counts
22:41of tampering with evidence.
22:43Emily Weaver
22:43was sentenced to life
22:44without the possibility
22:46of parole.
22:47However,
22:48in December 2022,
22:50the case was reopened
22:51after an appeal argued
22:52that her life sentence
22:53did not accurately reflect
22:55the nature of the crime
22:56and that her punishment
22:57was not consistent
22:58with similar cases.
23:00In November 2023,
23:03Emily was resentenced
23:04to life with the possibility
23:05of parole after 20 years.
23:08She's currently incarcerated
23:09at the Dayton
23:10Correctional Institution
23:11in Ohio,
23:12where she will be eligible
23:13for parole
23:14in 2035.
23:15in 2035.