Cradle of Death

Cradle of Death is a chrilling account of the murder of 8 babies by one of the most notorious serial killers in the history of our country. Marie Noe is to Philadephia as Mary Beth Tinning is to the Capital District of New York State. Both women bring shame to the concept of mother. Mary Beth is serving prison time for her crimes; Marie Noe should be doing the same. I also feel that Marie's husband and Mary Beth's are guilty of crime by STUPIDITY. How could either man witness death after death and not begin to question WHY it keeps happening? I know that SIDS happens, but repeatedly, over and over! I commend the medical profession and law enforcement agencies in New York State for bring Mary Beth Tinning to justice. She moved from doctor to doctor and hospital to hospital to avoid being apprehended. Fortunately her reign of infanticide was uncovered and brought to a screeching halt. It is unfortunate that Marie Noe's reign of terror was allowed to continue, resulting in the death of 8 innocent babies. After being arrested and charged with her crimes, Marie was sentenced to house arrest. Marie will life out the remainder of her life imprisoned in her own home. That's a harsh sentence!

Marie Noe, Marybeth Tinning and the late, unlamented Waneta Hoyt had two things in common: (1) they were sociopaths and murderers of their own children and (2) they were all married to gutless wimps, all of who had to know what was going on and did nothing to stop it....they kept supplying these fiends with more and more babies to murder. I cannot believe that the Noes' parish priest told her not to have a tubal ligation because it was a "mortal sin." I see: birth control is wrong, but infanticide is okay.I don't care if Marie Noe is 20, 40 or 70. She belongs in prison. This woman doesn't deserve any pity. She never should have had any children!

Glatt excels at the true crime genre. This book is expertly researched and the author makes a valiant attempt to uncover the reasoning of Marie Noe in killing her children. The ending is not very exciting, but that is not the fault of the author. There was no great confrontation between the police and Noe, no exhumed bodies, no huge scene. The lack of drama in the final pages of the book just reflects the quality of the work and attests to its accuracy. It must have been tempting to "spice it up", but Glatt stuck to the truth.Highly recommended!

I can't say that this book was anywhere near one of the best true crime books I have ever read, but it did make for some interesting reading. I put off purchasing this book many times because although I like true crime, I am really not enthusiastic about reading stories where innocent babies are murdered, by their own mother nonetheless. It was pitiful the way this woman snuffed out the lives of her innocent children, and for no obvious reason. Hard to believe that when her babies were dying one by one in the 1960's, no one thought it peculiar. If this were happening to someone I know now, I would certainly think something was up. This woman makes you very angry. Being in her seventies now, her age seems to have played a part in her punishment. I have no pity for her, 27 or 70, it makes no difference. She is a murderer, plain and simple.

As a true crime fanatic I think this is the most readable and fascinating example of the genre I have ever read. John Glatt does a first rate job of unravelling this unique crime behind the SIDS backdrop which protected Marie Noe, who cold-bloodedly killed eight of her children, for almost 50 years.His strenuous research is an example of the heights that true crime books can attain. I would recommend this to everyone as a 'can't put down page turner.'