Marie Noe, a 70-year-old woman in 1999, was formally charged with murder and sentenced to 20 years probation, 5 at which had to be served in her home. She had pled guilty on June 28, 1999 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She allegedly killed 8 of her 10 babies by suffocation with a pillow or other soft object. She was arrested in August 1968. Although the murder span was about two decades long, the murders started with the killing of her first child, Richard Allen Noe, in 1949.The killings ended during the year 1968. Marie Noe ended her killings with her last son Arthur Joseph Jr. Noe. He died January 2nd, 1968.