Sleep In Heavenly Peace (Pinnacle True Crime) (39 page)

Diane Thomas dons a lab coat and latex gloves and examines the remains of a third dead child.
(Photo courtesy of Graham County Sheriff’s Office, Safford, Arizona.)

The box that Diane Thomas opened and searched contained two smaller boxes with the remains of one of the babies.
(Author photo.)

This x-ray shows the skeletal remains of two of the babies.
(Author photo.)

This x-ray shows the curled up skeleton of one baby, which, when found, appeared to be nothing more than a pile of dust and bones.
(Author photo.)

This x-ray proves that the mummified remains of one baby were those of a full-term infant.
(Author photo.)

Graham County Sheriff’s Office Detective Bruce Weddle, who flew to Towanda, Pennsylvania, with Diane Thomas, was instrumental in getting the babies’ mother to admit that the babies were hers.
(Photo courtesy of Martha Hendrix.)

Dianne Odell posed for this photograph shortly after talking to Diane Thomas and Bruce Weddle on May 18, 2003.
(Photo courtesy of Pennsylvania State Police; Towanda Barracks.)

Odell was still wearing her Rite-Aid uniform when Pennsylvania State Police took her photo on May 18, 2003.
(Photo courtesy of Pennsylvania State Police; Towanda Barracks.)

This mug shot of Dianne Odell was taken shortly after she admitted to her role in the deaths of three of her children.
(Photo courtesy of New York State Police; Liberty Barracks.)

Diane Thomas snapped this photograph of Robert Sauerstein, Dianne Odell’s paramour, before questioning him.
(Photo courtesy of Graham County Sheriff’s Office, Safford, Arizona.)

These photographs were taken by a New York State Police trooper after a junk dealer in Bethel, New York, discovered the remains of a fetus inside a blue suitcase—a fourth dead baby that would eventually be tied to Dianne Odell.
(Photo courtesy of New York State Police; Liberty Barracks.)