Advertisement Bail set at $1 million in Blackstone 'House of Horrors' case Murray charged with fetal death concealment, witness intimidation Share Shares Copy Link Copy

At least two of the three infants whose bodies were found in the filthy, vermin-infested house in Blackstone in August may have been alive for some time, a Worcester County prosecutor said Tuesday.Watch reportErika Murray, 31, of Blackstone, who did not appear for a hearing Tuesday in Uxbridge District Court, is facing charges of fetal death concealment, witness intimidation and permitting substantial injury to a child.Photo timeline: Blackstone House of HorrorsWorcester County Asst. District Attorney John Bradley said that two of the infants were dressed in onesies when their decomposed remains were found."We do know that two of those babies, two of the skeletal remains of those babies were clothed. They had diapers on," Bradley said.One of the three dead babies was stuffed inside a backpack."Inside a closet in one of the upstairs bedrooms, they found a skeleton of a young baby, with a full head of hair," Bradley said.The closet was in the bedroom of Murray’s two older children, 10 and 13."The fact that an infant is clothed is not in and of itself proof that the infant was alive. You know, I can easily conceive of someone suffering a stillbirth deciding to put some sort clothing on a child," Murray's attorney, Keith Halpern, said.The state Department of Children and Families removed four children ranging in age from 6 months to 13 years from Murray's home in August after her 10-year-old son went to a neighbor's house and asked for help in quieting a crying baby.The neighbor found a 6-month-old baby covered in feces and a 3-year-old child. After interviewing the older children, police got a search warrant and went back to the house, where they found the remains of the three babies.Murray's boyfriend, Ramon Rivera, was in the same courthouse Tuesday for a separate hearing on marijuana charges.Halpern has said he believes Murray is suffering from a mental illness. "There are parts of this story that you know make absolutely no sense and it's going to be a considerable period of time to try to put the pieces together," Halpern said.Bail was set at $1 million Tuesday.No birth records could be found for the two youngest children. Halpern said previously that he believes Murray secretly gave birth to those children because her boyfriend didn't want any more kids than the two they already had together, the 10-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl.Bradley says Murray's two older children were told to lie to Rivera about the younger children."They were told to tell a story to the father that Ms. Murray was just babysitting these two children," he said.Rivera has not been charged in connection with the discovery of the infants' remains.The Blackstone Board of Health condemned the house where Murray, Rivera and the children lived and are planning to demolish it later this month.Authorities said it contained piles of dirty diapers, trash and the remains of dead animals..