Marybeth Tinning (née Roe, born on September 11, 1942) is an American serial killer currently serving a life sentence after being convicted of the murder of several of her children.
Marybeth Roe was born in Duanesburg, a small town in New York. She and her younger brother both attended Duanesburg High School, where she was an average student. Her father, Alton Roe, worked as a press operator for General Electric.
Over the next few years, she work...
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Marybeth Tinning (née Roe, born on September 11, 1942) is an American serial killer currently serving a life sentence after being convicted of the murder of several of her children.
Marybeth Roe was born in Duanesburg, a small town in New York. She and her younger brother both attended Duanesburg High School, where she was an average student. Her father, Alton Roe, worked as a press operator for General Electric.
Over the next few years, she worked in a series of low wage jobs. Eventually, she became a nurse's aide at Ellis Hospital in Schenectady. In 1963, she met Joe Tinning on a blind date. The couple married in spring 1965.
In the first five years of their marriage, the couple had two children, Barbara and Joseph. In December 1971, Tinning gave birth to a third child, Jennifer. Barely a month later, however, Jennifer died in a Schenectady hospital of severe infection, which was diagnosed as meningitis.
On January 20, 1972, Tinning took Joseph, then two years old, to the Ellis...
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