3 Bodies and Dead Infant Found at Home
Christy Freeman is charged with murder in the death of one of four dead babies.
— -- An Ocean City, Md., woman whom friends described as "introverted" and just a "typical person" has been charged with murder after police found a dead infant and the remains of three other fetuses in and around her home this weekend.
This quiet summer resort town is reeling from authorities' grisly discovery of a small infant's body in the home of Christy Freeman, 37, Thursday night. Freeman was admitted to a hospital earlier that day after apparently having given birth. By Friday, the remains of three other infants had also been found.
"This is totally from left field," said Hunter Frey, who has known Freeman for eight years. Frey said that he and others he'd spoken to did not know Freeman was pregnant. "It wasn't known to anybody. A lot of people had no idea."
"It's definitely disappointing. I'm shocked how someone could have something in their closet like that," he said.
After finding the dead infant, police searched the premises and found hidden inside a trunk in Freeman's bedroom two plastic bags containing infant human remains and a third containing what appeared to be a placenta.
The next day, police found yet another garbage bag filled with infant human remains inside a small motor home in Freeman's driveway.
Freeman, who lives with her boyfriend, Ray Godman, and her four children, was charged with first degree murder, second degree murder and manslaughter. All the charges are for the death of the first infant who was found. Police are investigating whether to charge Freeman with additional crimes, said Ocean City police Officer Vance Row.
Police are uncertain whether the remains of the other three infants belong to Freeman or whether she killed them, Row said.
Freeman was the owner of Classic Taxi, a leading Ocean City cab service, and workers at other local cab companies who knew her said the gruesome charges had left them in a state of complete shock.
Frey, a manager at Century Taxi, described Freeman as an introvert, a "very quiet" person who was "a little finicky in her own way."
