April 28, 2026
Massachusetts Mom Charged With The Double Murder Of Her Two Young Children
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RSS Feed An unthinkable story unfolding in the Northeast this week. According to police, 49-year-old Jeanette MacAusland admitted to strangling her 6 and 7 year old children. MacAusland reportedly tried and failed to kill herself afterwards, instead she drove 3 hours to a relative’s home, where police say she confessed to the crime. MacAusland is in the middle of a divorce and custody battle, but nothing about the situation pointed to this violet ending. In fact, MacAusland is described by friends and neighbors as a loving mother who they never believed could be capable of such a horrific crime.
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00:00:02
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. A mother of two has just been arrested and charged with the unthinkable, killing her own two kids. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ Presents Robes. This is a horrific story. We hear these every once in a while, very famous cases, but this is just the unthinkable and the throw in police say she's already confessed to it.
00:00:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, forty nine year old Jeanette mccauslin. She's from Massachusetts. And this is a mom who has been described by a former babysitter, by neighbors, by people who know her, who have loved her, and they've described her as an amazing mom. This is a mom who was juggling her work as an acupuncturist, so she was into healing people who apparently cared for her children, loved her children, and no one can understand what happened, why she snapped, Why this forty nine year old woman would murder her two children.
00:01:08
Speaker 1: Okay, so Robes, Yes, this story just catching up on and finding out about in the last couple of days. And we of course have been looking into, reading up in and researching this case. Have you seen anything, because I haven't that suggested she was off or a bad mom or any I know there are some troubles we'll get into in the marriage and whatnot in what was going on, But as far as her history, do you see anything out of the normal.
00:01:37
Speaker 2: That is what makes this case so insane. Yes, obviously it's a horrific thing, but there's nothing. There were no warning signs to your point by anyone who knew her. No one thought this was possible that she was capable of something like this. They live in a quiet, family oriented neighborhood outside of Boston. This is not something that this area is used to seeing, and certainly not anyone who was in her circles saw coming.
00:02:08
Speaker 1: And we should say here the kids, a kindergardener and a second grader. I believe to have the ages right seven and six.
00:02:15
Speaker 2: Yes, seven year old Kai and six year old Ella. Kai was a second grader, brother and sister. They seem to have gotten along. They've been described Kai was a little shy, Ella was more outgoing, and there is now a growing memorial for these two kids, who were beloved by their classmates and by everyone who met them and knew them. But here is the only thing that was happening in her life, and this is a big thing.
00:02:41
Speaker 3: There was a custody.
00:02:42
Speaker 2: Battle going on between her and her soon to be ex husband. Okay, divorces happen, unfortunately all the time. Custody hearings happen all the time.
00:02:53
Speaker 3: So yes, that.
00:02:55
Speaker 2: Obviously is a very stressful and concern situation for a lot of parents worried about losing time with their children. But that doesn't lead parents to murder their children.
00:03:09
Speaker 1: Sometimes leads to them murdering their spouse. Correct, We've seen that a plenty. This one doesn't make sense. Yes, to your point, there was a stress, there was a yes, and maybe even heated family dynamics going on. But why the kids? Why target the kids? There is something we'll get into in a moment that police have alluded to, at least in their report that she said to them. That doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but at least it maybe gives us some insight to her psyche. But roads the reason they even found out the kids were dead was because of her.
00:03:44
Speaker 2: Essentially, Yes, here is what happened. Jeanette mcgoslin rushes to her aunt's home in Bennington, Vermont. She was living in Massachusetts, obviously the state's neighbor one another.
00:03:56
Speaker 3: So she drove a distance to.
00:03:58
Speaker 2: Her aunt's home, and her aunt described her as highly distraught with a visible neck injury where she was bleeding from the area and in her mugshot you can see a line across her neck that had lots of dried blood on it. And she apparently, and she told this to police, that she did try to kill herself.
00:04:21
Speaker 1: So yes, this is a and I didn't realize how far it was a three hour drive that she had to make in the condition she was in. Now, all this time, there was no concern for the kids, no reason to raise alarm because nobody knew what was going on. She shows up, was at her aunt house.
00:04:37
Speaker 3: It was her aunt's house.
00:04:39
Speaker 1: And is it the ant that called police right and said she was distraught?
00:04:44
Speaker 3: Correct? I can, yes.
00:04:45
Speaker 2: The police statement says that the aunt told police this she was hysterical. I brought her into my house. She knocked on a window to get my attention, and I could see she had a large cut on her throat. I asked her where her children were, and she told me that she had killed them, and so yes, her aunt then called police, and police gave a very detailed report of what they found when they arrived to her aunt's home in there in Vermont. They said that she was carrying a holiday photo of her family, so her soon to be x and her two children, and she handed the image to her officer, to the officer who showed up on the scene, and then told the officer, according to the police report, I strangled.
00:05:34
Speaker 3: Them and then tried to kill myself.
00:05:38
Speaker 1: And sure enough, right they do a welfare check at that point, go to the house where the family lives in Massachusetts, and sure not, the kids were found where she said they would be found. Robes, What kind of a break? What kind of psychological break has taken in place here? Robes, This is what in God's name possesses a woman, And I say possess. I didn't mean to lead down this roade, Robes, but she made statements that suggest that she was. I don't know if it's hearing voices or getting signals from the heavens about what she should be doing.
00:06:24
Speaker 2: It is in this Obviously you would have to think that for a mother who grew these babies in her belly, who took very good care of them by all accounts, and raised them with love and care and concern. How do you go from being a loving, caring, dutiful mom who again her job as an acupuncturist, just leads me to believe she's a healer, she's a helper, she wants to ease pain. How does she go from being that person to literally snapping because yes, she's in a custody fight, but how does that lead you to then decide to take your sweet children's lives? And she told the officer, they're in my bed, and that is exactly where they found those two little, sweet innocent children in her bed. Strangle to strangle your children to death? That is not something that you can do just because you're upset. I mean, this would have to be a mental health break. I can't imagine another explanation. And not that that's a defense, but just trying to get your head around how a woman could go from being or seeming to be one thing to completely turning into a monster.
00:07:40
Speaker 1: Oh what was the line? I was, do you have it in there? Something she said about she was told to do it or she got and there was some other statement. I'm sorry, I was trying to lead us too that that suggested there was something else possibly going on with this woman, the kids, the robes. I was looking and maybe more stuff will come out later about there was some signal of something or something that's been going on in her life or something that was quiet and nobody knew about. But right now and the story's been out there for I guess we are just getting caught up. But there was a lot of commentary on this already, and I shouldn't say commentary. There are a lot of people in their lives, in their community that are speaking up and do you fight in what I was?
00:08:23
Speaker 3: I did so.
00:08:24
Speaker 2: According to the ant statement, she said that her niece told her I wanted the three of us to go to God together, but it didn't work, and that's't I can't understand the fact that she was able to strangle her children according to her, And then she said she tried to take her own life by gashing her neck, slitting her neck, and then she even said she drove to a bridge and tried to jump off a bridge but could not. To me, that's unbelievable if you're able to kill your children but you're not able to jump off a bridge. But apparently she says she could not, but her her goal or her intent was for all three of them to go to God together.
00:09:05
Speaker 1: Ah again, no, we'll learn more of these are inexplicable. That's just some things you cannot understand, and that you can't find a mother. As much as moms complain about their kids and the kid's behavior throughout, you cannot find a mom that can understand that type of up close personal violence against the child you birth and raise. You just can't understand it. It's more personal than stabbing. You're putting you You have to physically strain the neck of a baby. So that is even beyond some stories we've heard in the past, rogues about moms killing their kids. They're all horrible, but the manner of death here even makes this story more come confusing and disgusting.
00:09:56
Speaker 2: I completely agree, and so obviously the only thing that people can point to other than a mental health break, which clearly I believe happened but could have been prompted by this divorce dispute, here is what we know. We know that her husband filed for divorce back in October, so this isn't a new thing. That's the other thing that's a little confusing. After nine years of marriage, and in his filing for divorce, he did seek full custody of the children and the home that they lived in. But Jeannette, and this is pretty typical when it comes to divorces, the following month, filed her own countersuit in November, also seeking custody of the children and the home. So, look, this happened months and months and months ago. There were some recent developments. April sixteenth, they filed a joint motion. So the two sides, through their attorneys, came together and they agreed to have a third party take a look at both homes and make recommendations about custody.
00:10:51
Speaker 3: Again, fairly typical when there's a custody.
00:10:54
Speaker 2: To dispute and they are at odds with who should be the parental guardian. So just days before this unthinkable tragedy, a guardian ad litem was appointed in this case to protect the children's best interest. Again, standard procedure when you're in a situation like this, so you can have a third party evaluate how the kids are acting and reacting around different parents, and then they make recommendations to the judge about how they should go about coming up with a custody arrangement.
00:11:25
Speaker 3: So nothing in.
00:11:26
Speaker 2: Terms of actually where the divorce was or the custody was even made any sense as to why she would take this next horrific, evil act to end it all on her terms.
00:11:40
Speaker 1: No, if somebody has a clear mental break, are they the same monster? Are they still responsible? I don't know where we land on these types of cases. I know how the courts have ruled and people end up in prison. Yes, but this is incomprehensible that a mother would do something like this short of being possessed. That sounds crazy. But as a parent, we don't understand this type of behavior. You just can't. So the best explanation to me is that something like a possession or a severe mental disease hit her in a moment. Because the other thing is, what is that a sane, conscious mother just one day decided to kill.
00:12:30
Speaker 2: A kids because she was that angry at her ex husband that she was that concerned that he was going to get custody of them.
00:12:37
Speaker 1: I don't believe that.
00:12:38
Speaker 2: I don't either, because nothing was pointing to the fact that she was going to lose custody of her kids. There was just going to be an arrangement that was made between the two. So when we come back further adding to the confusion of this story, you're gonna hear directly from the family's babysitter, what she had to say about this family, what neighbors had to say, what the school system.
00:12:58
Speaker 3: Had to say.
00:12:59
Speaker 2: This this is truly a head scratcher of a story that has ended in the most horrific way possible. And welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ Presents. We are talking about forty nine year old Jeanette McCausland. She this week has been arrested and charged with double murder, the murder of her six year old daughter Ella and her seven year old son Kai. Reportedly, she told police she strangled her own children in her bed at their home in Wellesley, Massachusetts, last weekend. She drove hours to be with her aunt. She was in a distraught state, she had her neck bleeding, She had attempted to kill herself. She said she tried to throw herself off a bridge, and she ended up driving all the way to her aunt's home, and according to police, confessed to this horrific crime, and it has left an entire community just thrown They don't understand how this could have happened. A divorce was underway, Sure, there was a custody dispute, but none of that explains what Jeanette mccauslin said she did to her own children. She was an acupuncturist at New England Integrated Health.
00:14:21
Speaker 3: She was seemingly a.
00:14:24
Speaker 2: Model mother, a model citizen, a model employee, and somehow something went terribly wrong her former babysitter. You saw some of the comments that their former babysitter said talking about how she was one of the best moms she had ever witnessed in action, she said, I got the impression that she was she was shouldering the child rearing and the housework, and never once did she ever enter the house and feel like anything was off. You go back when you hear these stories, especially people who knew this family, and no one can come up with an answer as to how this or why this could have happened.
00:15:01
Speaker 1: We don't have any answers from her just yet. We were waiting. She has waived, not trying to fight being sent back to Massachusetts.
00:15:13
Speaker 4: From Wellesley, Massachusetts outside I thought too far outside Boston, right, So, yes, don't know when she'll be in court again, at least for something beyond just updates and a status hearing.
00:15:24
Speaker 1: But yeah, she has to face a raiment at some point, and who knows how much evidence will come out at that point.
00:15:30
Speaker 2: Yes, because if she's already admitted to it, I'm not sure how prosecutors proceed in this sort of thing. She'll if she pleads guilty, they'll probably just come up with a sentencing. The fact that she's already admitted guilt doesn't necessarily mean that when she gets her court appointed attorney that they won't go ahead and plead guilty and force the state to prove something beyond a reasonable doubt. They could have a defensive mental illness, obviously, and that would be the most likely scenario if you're trying to and you're having an attorney try to protect your interests as a defendant, that would be the most obvious defense in a case like this, especially when you have person after person coming forward to her character. This is an exact quote from the family's babysitter. Never could I have imagined that she would do.
00:16:14
Speaker 3: Something like this.
00:16:15
Speaker 2: She seemed to just deeply love her children like any other mother that I have come across. And the neighbors said that they having known this family for around seven years, I didn't know this was something capable of happening in my community. We saw the kids biking up and down the road. This is heartbreaking. The kids seemed cheerful, positive, so happy, so carefree. It's hard to imagine they are not here anymore. You know, we're always trying to get the why, mostly to prevent, but also just to explain evil like this. And I don't know if you're ever if we're ever going to get a justifiable or a reasonable explanation for a.
00:17:00
Speaker 3: Crime like this.
00:17:04
Speaker 1: I am very curious to hear and follow this one because it's just the strangling for whatever reason. I don't know if there's a kinder way. I don't know if you'd ever feel better about the manner of death. But it's just something about that. It's just you can't understand.
00:17:20
Speaker 2: And certainly more details will come out. Certainly we will hear more out of this story because it has unfortunately just begun.
00:17:28
Speaker 3: The legal process just beginning.
00:17:29
Speaker 2: Jeanee mccauslin is making her way from Vermont back to Massachusetts this week, where she will face double murder charges in the state of Massachusetts. And we will continue to follow this case because it is sure to have a few more twists and turns before we end up getting some sort of solution or conclusion to the story. But again, a mom of two killing both of her children in the state of Massachusetts set to face now the legal process that is just beginning in that state. So we appreciate your attention and certainly we will continue to follow this story here on Amy and TJ Presents. We always appreciate you listening to us. I'm Amy Roebuck alongside TJ. Holmes, and we will talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. A mother of two has just been arrested and charged with the unthinkable, killing her own two kids. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ Presents Robes. This is a horrific story. We hear these every once in a while, very famous cases, but this is just the unthinkable and the throw in police say she's already confessed to it.
00:00:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, forty nine year old Jeanette mccauslin. She's from Massachusetts. And this is a mom who has been described by a former babysitter, by neighbors, by people who know her, who have loved her, and they've described her as an amazing mom. This is a mom who was juggling her work as an acupuncturist, so she was into healing people who apparently cared for her children, loved her children, and no one can understand what happened, why she snapped, Why this forty nine year old woman would murder her two children.
00:01:08
Speaker 1: Okay, so Robes, Yes, this story just catching up on and finding out about in the last couple of days. And we of course have been looking into, reading up in and researching this case. Have you seen anything, because I haven't that suggested she was off or a bad mom or any I know there are some troubles we'll get into in the marriage and whatnot in what was going on, But as far as her history, do you see anything out of the normal.
00:01:37
Speaker 2: That is what makes this case so insane. Yes, obviously it's a horrific thing, but there's nothing. There were no warning signs to your point by anyone who knew her. No one thought this was possible that she was capable of something like this. They live in a quiet, family oriented neighborhood outside of Boston. This is not something that this area is used to seeing, and certainly not anyone who was in her circles saw coming.
00:02:08
Speaker 1: And we should say here the kids, a kindergardener and a second grader. I believe to have the ages right seven and six.
00:02:15
Speaker 2: Yes, seven year old Kai and six year old Ella. Kai was a second grader, brother and sister. They seem to have gotten along. They've been described Kai was a little shy, Ella was more outgoing, and there is now a growing memorial for these two kids, who were beloved by their classmates and by everyone who met them and knew them. But here is the only thing that was happening in her life, and this is a big thing.
00:02:41
Speaker 3: There was a custody.
00:02:42
Speaker 2: Battle going on between her and her soon to be ex husband. Okay, divorces happen, unfortunately all the time. Custody hearings happen all the time.
00:02:53
Speaker 3: So yes, that.
00:02:55
Speaker 2: Obviously is a very stressful and concern situation for a lot of parents worried about losing time with their children. But that doesn't lead parents to murder their children.
00:03:09
Speaker 1: Sometimes leads to them murdering their spouse. Correct, We've seen that a plenty. This one doesn't make sense. Yes, to your point, there was a stress, there was a yes, and maybe even heated family dynamics going on. But why the kids? Why target the kids? There is something we'll get into in a moment that police have alluded to, at least in their report that she said to them. That doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but at least it maybe gives us some insight to her psyche. But roads the reason they even found out the kids were dead was because of her.
00:03:44
Speaker 2: Essentially, Yes, here is what happened. Jeanette mcgoslin rushes to her aunt's home in Bennington, Vermont. She was living in Massachusetts, obviously the state's neighbor one another.
00:03:56
Speaker 3: So she drove a distance to.
00:03:58
Speaker 2: Her aunt's home, and her aunt described her as highly distraught with a visible neck injury where she was bleeding from the area and in her mugshot you can see a line across her neck that had lots of dried blood on it. And she apparently, and she told this to police, that she did try to kill herself.
00:04:21
Speaker 1: So yes, this is a and I didn't realize how far it was a three hour drive that she had to make in the condition she was in. Now, all this time, there was no concern for the kids, no reason to raise alarm because nobody knew what was going on. She shows up, was at her aunt house.
00:04:37
Speaker 3: It was her aunt's house.
00:04:39
Speaker 1: And is it the ant that called police right and said she was distraught?
00:04:44
Speaker 3: Correct? I can, yes.
00:04:45
Speaker 2: The police statement says that the aunt told police this she was hysterical. I brought her into my house. She knocked on a window to get my attention, and I could see she had a large cut on her throat. I asked her where her children were, and she told me that she had killed them, and so yes, her aunt then called police, and police gave a very detailed report of what they found when they arrived to her aunt's home in there in Vermont. They said that she was carrying a holiday photo of her family, so her soon to be x and her two children, and she handed the image to her officer, to the officer who showed up on the scene, and then told the officer, according to the police report, I strangled.
00:05:34
Speaker 3: Them and then tried to kill myself.
00:05:38
Speaker 1: And sure enough, right they do a welfare check at that point, go to the house where the family lives in Massachusetts, and sure not, the kids were found where she said they would be found. Robes, What kind of a break? What kind of psychological break has taken in place here? Robes, This is what in God's name possesses a woman, And I say possess. I didn't mean to lead down this roade, Robes, but she made statements that suggest that she was. I don't know if it's hearing voices or getting signals from the heavens about what she should be doing.
00:06:24
Speaker 2: It is in this Obviously you would have to think that for a mother who grew these babies in her belly, who took very good care of them by all accounts, and raised them with love and care and concern. How do you go from being a loving, caring, dutiful mom who again her job as an acupuncturist, just leads me to believe she's a healer, she's a helper, she wants to ease pain. How does she go from being that person to literally snapping because yes, she's in a custody fight, but how does that lead you to then decide to take your sweet children's lives? And she told the officer, they're in my bed, and that is exactly where they found those two little, sweet innocent children in her bed. Strangle to strangle your children to death? That is not something that you can do just because you're upset. I mean, this would have to be a mental health break. I can't imagine another explanation. And not that that's a defense, but just trying to get your head around how a woman could go from being or seeming to be one thing to completely turning into a monster.
00:07:40
Speaker 1: Oh what was the line? I was, do you have it in there? Something she said about she was told to do it or she got and there was some other statement. I'm sorry, I was trying to lead us too that that suggested there was something else possibly going on with this woman, the kids, the robes. I was looking and maybe more stuff will come out later about there was some signal of something or something that's been going on in her life or something that was quiet and nobody knew about. But right now and the story's been out there for I guess we are just getting caught up. But there was a lot of commentary on this already, and I shouldn't say commentary. There are a lot of people in their lives, in their community that are speaking up and do you fight in what I was?
00:08:23
Speaker 3: I did so.
00:08:24
Speaker 2: According to the ant statement, she said that her niece told her I wanted the three of us to go to God together, but it didn't work, and that's't I can't understand the fact that she was able to strangle her children according to her, And then she said she tried to take her own life by gashing her neck, slitting her neck, and then she even said she drove to a bridge and tried to jump off a bridge but could not. To me, that's unbelievable if you're able to kill your children but you're not able to jump off a bridge. But apparently she says she could not, but her her goal or her intent was for all three of them to go to God together.
00:09:05
Speaker 1: Ah again, no, we'll learn more of these are inexplicable. That's just some things you cannot understand, and that you can't find a mother. As much as moms complain about their kids and the kid's behavior throughout, you cannot find a mom that can understand that type of up close personal violence against the child you birth and raise. You just can't understand it. It's more personal than stabbing. You're putting you You have to physically strain the neck of a baby. So that is even beyond some stories we've heard in the past, rogues about moms killing their kids. They're all horrible, but the manner of death here even makes this story more come confusing and disgusting.
00:09:56
Speaker 2: I completely agree, and so obviously the only thing that people can point to other than a mental health break, which clearly I believe happened but could have been prompted by this divorce dispute, here is what we know. We know that her husband filed for divorce back in October, so this isn't a new thing. That's the other thing that's a little confusing. After nine years of marriage, and in his filing for divorce, he did seek full custody of the children and the home that they lived in. But Jeannette, and this is pretty typical when it comes to divorces, the following month, filed her own countersuit in November, also seeking custody of the children and the home. So, look, this happened months and months and months ago. There were some recent developments. April sixteenth, they filed a joint motion. So the two sides, through their attorneys, came together and they agreed to have a third party take a look at both homes and make recommendations about custody.
00:10:51
Speaker 3: Again, fairly typical when there's a custody.
00:10:54
Speaker 2: To dispute and they are at odds with who should be the parental guardian. So just days before this unthinkable tragedy, a guardian ad litem was appointed in this case to protect the children's best interest. Again, standard procedure when you're in a situation like this, so you can have a third party evaluate how the kids are acting and reacting around different parents, and then they make recommendations to the judge about how they should go about coming up with a custody arrangement.
00:11:25
Speaker 3: So nothing in.
00:11:26
Speaker 2: Terms of actually where the divorce was or the custody was even made any sense as to why she would take this next horrific, evil act to end it all on her terms.
00:11:40
Speaker 1: No, if somebody has a clear mental break, are they the same monster? Are they still responsible? I don't know where we land on these types of cases. I know how the courts have ruled and people end up in prison. Yes, but this is incomprehensible that a mother would do something like this short of being possessed. That sounds crazy. But as a parent, we don't understand this type of behavior. You just can't. So the best explanation to me is that something like a possession or a severe mental disease hit her in a moment. Because the other thing is, what is that a sane, conscious mother just one day decided to kill.
00:12:30
Speaker 2: A kids because she was that angry at her ex husband that she was that concerned that he was going to get custody of them.
00:12:37
Speaker 1: I don't believe that.
00:12:38
Speaker 2: I don't either, because nothing was pointing to the fact that she was going to lose custody of her kids. There was just going to be an arrangement that was made between the two. So when we come back further adding to the confusion of this story, you're gonna hear directly from the family's babysitter, what she had to say about this family, what neighbors had to say, what the school system.
00:12:58
Speaker 3: Had to say.
00:12:59
Speaker 2: This this is truly a head scratcher of a story that has ended in the most horrific way possible. And welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ Presents. We are talking about forty nine year old Jeanette McCausland. She this week has been arrested and charged with double murder, the murder of her six year old daughter Ella and her seven year old son Kai. Reportedly, she told police she strangled her own children in her bed at their home in Wellesley, Massachusetts, last weekend. She drove hours to be with her aunt. She was in a distraught state, she had her neck bleeding, She had attempted to kill herself. She said she tried to throw herself off a bridge, and she ended up driving all the way to her aunt's home, and according to police, confessed to this horrific crime, and it has left an entire community just thrown They don't understand how this could have happened. A divorce was underway, Sure, there was a custody dispute, but none of that explains what Jeanette mccauslin said she did to her own children. She was an acupuncturist at New England Integrated Health.
00:14:21
Speaker 3: She was seemingly a.
00:14:24
Speaker 2: Model mother, a model citizen, a model employee, and somehow something went terribly wrong her former babysitter. You saw some of the comments that their former babysitter said talking about how she was one of the best moms she had ever witnessed in action, she said, I got the impression that she was she was shouldering the child rearing and the housework, and never once did she ever enter the house and feel like anything was off. You go back when you hear these stories, especially people who knew this family, and no one can come up with an answer as to how this or why this could have happened.
00:15:01
Speaker 1: We don't have any answers from her just yet. We were waiting. She has waived, not trying to fight being sent back to Massachusetts.
00:15:13
Speaker 4: From Wellesley, Massachusetts outside I thought too far outside Boston, right, So, yes, don't know when she'll be in court again, at least for something beyond just updates and a status hearing.
00:15:24
Speaker 1: But yeah, she has to face a raiment at some point, and who knows how much evidence will come out at that point.
00:15:30
Speaker 2: Yes, because if she's already admitted to it, I'm not sure how prosecutors proceed in this sort of thing. She'll if she pleads guilty, they'll probably just come up with a sentencing. The fact that she's already admitted guilt doesn't necessarily mean that when she gets her court appointed attorney that they won't go ahead and plead guilty and force the state to prove something beyond a reasonable doubt. They could have a defensive mental illness, obviously, and that would be the most likely scenario if you're trying to and you're having an attorney try to protect your interests as a defendant, that would be the most obvious defense in a case like this, especially when you have person after person coming forward to her character. This is an exact quote from the family's babysitter. Never could I have imagined that she would do.
00:16:14
Speaker 3: Something like this.
00:16:15
Speaker 2: She seemed to just deeply love her children like any other mother that I have come across. And the neighbors said that they having known this family for around seven years, I didn't know this was something capable of happening in my community. We saw the kids biking up and down the road. This is heartbreaking. The kids seemed cheerful, positive, so happy, so carefree. It's hard to imagine they are not here anymore. You know, we're always trying to get the why, mostly to prevent, but also just to explain evil like this. And I don't know if you're ever if we're ever going to get a justifiable or a reasonable explanation for a.
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Speaker 3: Crime like this.
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Speaker 1: I am very curious to hear and follow this one because it's just the strangling for whatever reason. I don't know if there's a kinder way. I don't know if you'd ever feel better about the manner of death. But it's just something about that. It's just you can't understand.
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Speaker 2: And certainly more details will come out. Certainly we will hear more out of this story because it has unfortunately just begun.
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Speaker 3: The legal process just beginning.
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Speaker 2: Jeanee mccauslin is making her way from Vermont back to Massachusetts this week, where she will face double murder charges in the state of Massachusetts. And we will continue to follow this case because it is sure to have a few more twists and turns before we end up getting some sort of solution or conclusion to the story. But again, a mom of two killing both of her children in the state of Massachusetts set to face now the legal process that is just beginning in that state. So we appreciate your attention and certainly we will continue to follow this story here on Amy and TJ Presents. We always appreciate you listening to us. I'm Amy Roebuck alongside TJ. Holmes, and we will talk to you soon.