I-Team: Town Responded To Complaints About Refuse, Debris At Blackstone Home
BLACKSTONE (CBS) – The Board of Health in Blackstone was holding an emergency meeting Friday, a day after investigators said the bodies of three infants were found in a home in town.
WBZ-TV's I-Team has learned the town received complaints about Murray's home in 2010 and 2012, but only regarding the exterior, not the interior.
Erika Murray, 31, was ordered held without bail Friday on several charges including fetal death concealment and witness intimidation.
She isn't charged in the deaths at this point in the investigation.
Investigators were back at Murray's home on St. Paul Street Friday searching for more possible bodies.
The Department of Children and Families says they visited the home in 2007 but could not find support for a complaint that was filed and only found a dirty carpet, which they ordered the children's parents to clean.
Authorities were called to the home in late August and removed four children - ages 13, 10, 3 and 6 months old. When they went back to investigate further, police found the bodies of the infants – one Wednesday afternoon and two on Thursday.
A law enforcement source told WBZ-TV's Ken MacLeod investigators suspect, but can't prove at this point, that Murray is the mother of the three dead children and the four others who were removed from the house last month.
The children's father was living in the home but sources said he has not been charged, there is no warrant out for his arrest and he may have left the state.
The I-Team learned Friday the town of Blackstone received complaints about "refuse and debris" outside Murray's home in 2010 and 2012.
In both cases, the property owner was cited and the home was brought back into compliance.
The town inspector said all complaints about the property at 23 St. Paul Street dealt with the exterior of the house.
All those documents have now been turned over to the Worcester County District Attorney as part of the investigation.
The Blackstone school superintendent also confirmed to the I-Team that the 13-year-old and 10-year-old were both enrolled in school last year, but neither have been to school this year. He told the I-Team's Lauren Leamanczyk he wasn't aware of any problems.
The image Erika Murray projected to the outside world on her Facebook page is very different from what authorities have uncovered in the home.
Her Facebook page filled with pictures of homemade meals and a Mothers' Day scrap book.
There are many photos of her two older children, almost always outside. There are n pictures of the infant or 3-year-old who allegedly lived in squalor.
This home is owned by the children's aunt Kristina Rivera. The I-Team tracked her down Friday to find out why no one reported what was happening but she refused to answer questions.
Later police served her with an order to clean up the property or be fined $50 per day.
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