A deranged young mother who concealed her pregnancy shockingly murdered her newborn after delivering in her bathroom.
Emile Weaver followed the horrific act with cold texts to the baby’s father, stating: “No more baby…taken care of,” and revealing, “it was a girl with your hair.”
At 21 years old, the sorority member callously placed her daughter in a trash bag alongside a mac and cheese box, a popsicle wrapper, and a Doritos bag before tossing her outside the Delta Gamma Theta sorority house to be found later by students at Muskingum University, Ohio. After the deed, she casually drove to McDonald’s.
Adding to the horror, the house’s manager had unknowingly sent the sorority sisters a group message demanding the person responsible for the mess in the bathroom to clean it, describing the scene as resembling a murder.
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Upon her return, law enforcement was already at the scene, swiftly arresting Weaver when her unspeakable crime came to light.
Post-mortem reports confirmed the infant, named Addison posthumously, perished from suffocation.
Weaver admitted that she was in denial throughout the pregnancy, maintained her usual habits, including partying, smoking pot, and even competing in a dodgeball tournament, and had no intentions of keeping the baby, the prosecution argued.
During her police interview, Weaver chillingly confessed: “I didn’t really have much concern for the baby. I was more concerned about my wellbeing and taking care of myself.”
When interrogated if she made any attempt to save her baby’s life after birth, Weaver starkly declared: “I didn’t do anything to keep her alive, no.”
The detective questioned her about her feelings on the tragic series of events, to which she responded: “I wish it could be rewound, the situation, I guess…I just wish you could go back and I could have called 911, but I didn’t, so.”
Just five days before her child’s birth, Weaver messaged her former boyfriend: “You started this war” (revealing her pregnancy). He advised her to “go to the clinic” and “get it taken care of” during the initial stages.
In a harsh text, her ex-partner said: “You’ve been drinking the whole time…might as well kill it. It’s coming out retarded anyway.”
On April 22 at 7.12pm, 2015, moments before police would arrive, Weaver texted him with the chilling message: “No more baby…taken care of.”
He fired back asking: “I would like to know how you killed my kid.”
Weaver then implied complications led to the loss, stating: “It was a girl with your dark hair.”
Facing trial, Weaver maintained a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, yet she was convicted of aggravated murder, abuse of a corpse, and tampering with evidence in 2016. Despite declining a 15-year plea deal, she received a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
Weaver expressed in a statement: “I didn’t identify it as a human being…It was more an ‘it.'”.
In a 2018 Elle.com interview, Emile opened up about realizing the gravity of the situation when shopping for a burial outfit for Addison, confessing that she “felt like a monster,” but viewed her sentencing as too harsh.
In 2022, advocates challenged her life sentence by bringing up the comparative leniency in similar cases, triggering a case review which argued that the severe punishment did not reflect the nature of Weaver’s crime.
By November 2023, Weaver’s original verdict was amended to a life term with the option of parole after two decades, setting her potential release date for 2035.
The unsettling saga gained a fresh surge of online attention when the EWU Crime Storytime channel on YouTube featured it, quickly accumulating over 1.1 million views and prompting more than 8,000 comments as people flocked to voice their opinions.
A commenter lamented, “She could’ve dropped the baby off at the hospital. She had a car. It’s sickening how she showed no remorse.”
Another expressed outrage, stating, “Premeditated murder, she knew all along she was never going to keep the baby, a truly horrendous crime.”
A third observed, “She sounds like a sociopath. Anyone who can lie so easily about killing their own child belongs in prison for a long time. She’s dangerous.”
Yet another added their dismay, “No words. This was so senseless. She could have surrendered the baby. No questions asked.”
Reflecting on the lasting shockwaves of the tragedy, one individual recounted, “I went to Muskingum University the following semester. While I wasn’t on campus when this happened, it truly left a lasting impact on the community. All incoming freshmen had to go to a class where a professor talked to us about what to do / not to do in this situation, what resources are available, etc. The University wanted to ensure that something like this never happened again.”
One person commented on the chilling aspect of the show, saying: “Emile texting her boyfriend: ‘it was a girl with your hair’ after doing what she did was probably the most twisted part for me.”
