Warning: Graphic content, readers’ discretion advised. This story contains a recollection of crime and can be triggering to some readers discretion advised
the disturbing case of Megan Huntsman. On April 12, 2014, when officers went to Megan’s husband Darren’s house they had no idea they were going to deal with the most twisted tale. But what made this case even more disturbing was that the officers didn’t find just one but seven dead bodies inside the house of horror . What could have happened there? Where could those bodies have come from?
april 12,2014
darren had returned home after serving time in prison for drug charges only to stumble upon horrifying scene in his garage .
whhen police arrived at pleasant grove ,utah they saw the garage door wide open and darren.
and darren stood outside with his family , who had come to help him move in.just one look at him and the officers knew they were in for something dreadful.
the box in question was an odinary looking fruit box sitting just outside the garage and its exterior was tightly sealed with electrical tape.
inside they found a bag also wrapped in layer upon layer of duct tape, as if someone deperately wanted to keep whatever was inside hidden forever.
what they discovered would haunt them for years to come….
it was the lifeless body of a fully decomposed baby.
there were boxes from floor to seiling on all three walls ,there’s hundreds of boxes.
the medical examiner’s officer sent out an investigator, bewilderment ,shock, speechles.
the big obvious question is, what is this child doing here? who’s the mother? where did it come from?
the officers quickly sealed off the scene , unsure of what had truly happened but one thing was clear.
it was now a homicide investigation .
they began searching the area,moving from box to box , not knowing that what they had just uncovered was just the beginning of a much more darker and more chilling story.
but the question was , where was megan?
right now she was the only person who could hold the answers to this troubling mystery.
so for the time being,the officers focused on megan to understand about the unfolding events.
it wasn’t just darren who was disturbed,the neighbors hadd also noticed strange foul smell coming from the garage.
as more officers arrived at the scene they were tasked with meticulously searching every inch of the property of what was quickly becoming known as the house of horror.
meanwhile , megan was brought in for questioning by detective backstrom.his first goal was to understand why she had hidden the baby.
instead of reporting it to the authorities or seeking medical help,however in a few moments, the story took a turn more twisted than ever.
megan repeated the same story she had told darren that the baby had been a stillborn.
despite appearing visibly upset, there were manyt details in megan’s account that just didn’t add up.
megans stories seemed like a justification, with her husband gone to prison , she was left overwhelmed with stress and was deeply influenced by drugs , which clouded her state of mind.
but the more the detective spoke with her the more their doubts grew.
what struck as odd was megan’s fear of going to jail if the baby was truly a stillborn, if no crime had been committed.
aside from the unlawful disposal of the body,why did she carry such a heavy guilt? there was something deeper she wasn’t saying , and the detective could feel it.
meanwhile , at the house, the officers pressed on with their search ,which led them to anothe sspicious box.
inside ,they uncovered a deeply distrubing scene that was just the start.
each box they opened carried an overpowering stench with a strange liquid seeping through the bottom of the bags inside.
the officers immediately repported it to detective backstrom, who confronted megan in hopes to get answers.
but nothing could have prepared him for her response.
megan had a long history of drug abuse,particularlymethamphetamine, ans was known to drink heavily as well.
this addictions had ruined her ability to make rational decisions,but they were no excuse for taking a life.
despite her claims ,it was clear she was still hiding something a truth so gruseome which would shake everyone to the core.
after hearing that more bodies were hidden in the garage,detective backstrom quickly contacted the officers on the scene.
over 20 to 30 officers combed through every inch of the house ,searching for hours.
and while the investigation continued , so did the interrogation .it was painfully evident that this case was far from straightforward.
while it wasn’t unheard of for a women to hide a pregnancy,but doing so multiple times raised serious doubts.
the idea seemed almost impossible to believe.
and as the detectives pieced things together , a chilling realization began to take shape.
as the detective left the room,he could barely contain the emotions that overwhelmed him. it had been the hardest interrogation of his career.
holy shit! she killed those babies”
back at the crime scene , the officers had been searching the garage for over 2 hours , and the unease they felt couldn’t be measured.
no one could have predicted what other surprises lay in store for them .
it didn’t take long before the officers found the third
body packed tightly in a box and sealed with layers of duct tapes
they found the body to be wrapped in a plastig bag and covered in vinyl.
as their search continued ,they uncovered a fourth body followed by a fifth hidden under two bath tles in the bottom left corner of a cubby.
but just when they thought they had seen it all , the biggest shock was stll about to come …
detective beckstrom was told their was a fifth body,how many could there be?
and what is going on ?
the numbers kept growing , but the officers knew they had to proceed with caution.
the line of questioning soon shifted as detective beckstrom began to consider darren’s possible involvement due to something megan had said earlier during the interrogation that had caught his attention.
it was hard to believe that darren had simply stumbled upon the body in his garage without any clue where it could have come from.
could he have known more than he was letting on?
meanwhile ,back at the crime scene, officers made another grim discovery ,the sixh and seventh bodies wrapped in sweaters and stuffed into a box inside a cabinet.
it ewas a moment that left everyone reeling.but their still pressed on to determine if there were more than seven.
they even searched megan’s former home in west valley , leaving no stone unturned.
while they found no additional bodies ,they did uncover Xanax, marijuana and drug paraphernalia painting a bleak picture of her life.
megan huntsman was arrested and booked into the Utah county jail on six counts of murder.
however ,the case was far from complete.
still, there were pieces of the puzzle that didn’t quite fit.
and to fill in the gaps, investigators brought darren in for questioning.
darren was visibly shaken by the distrubing revelations. he buried his face in his hands and began to sob as the weight of the situation hit him hard.
but despite his tears, there was more he needed to explain.
even though darren claimed he had no idea about the pregnancies, the detective wasn’t ready to accept it at face value.
allthoug darren seemed like a potential suspect in the case,there was no evidence to link him to the murders .eventually,darren request an attorney, bringing the interrogation to an abrupt end.
what worked in his favor was a simple but strong point.
if he had known about the bodies in the garage ,it was unlikely he would started cleaning it so soon after his release from prison. darren was released from custody and the investigation moved forward with megan still behind bars.
all the evidence collected from the garage ,including the boxes , plastic bags and layers of duct tapes were sent to the lab for analysis , and the results were conclusive.
every single fingerprint belonged to megan.
not a trace of darren’s prints was found on any of the items.
with this, the focus shifted to the medical examiner , where DNA testing was conducted to confirm the father of the babies.
the results wer as expected. darren was the biological father of all seven children.
however ,one heartbreaking fact remained clear,during their entire ten years of living together and even after he went to prison in 2006, darren had no idea he had fathered seven children.
megan had hdden everything from him and everyone else.
it was now time for the final decision…
on febbruary 12th ,2015,megan was formally charged with six counts of first degree murder, having admitted to killing six of her children while claiming one was stillborn.
she was sentenced to six terms of five years to life to be served consecutively , which meant she would spend the rest of her life in prison.
the case left everyone involved deeply shaken it was incomprehensible how a mother could commit such horrific acts.
it also highlighted the devastating impact of drugs,which had completely destroyed megan’s mental health and led her down this dark and tragic path.
megan had a family that she was raising ,but on the flip side of that coin, she also had seven dead children in her garage that she had murdered.
no one know what her motives was , no one care what her motive was but the fact the matter is , she did it , and that was unfathomable to everyone.