Christine Falling
Voices Told Her To Kill
Homicide
Crime Spree: 1980 – 1982
Christine Falling was born in Perry, Florida on March 12, 1963. She was raised in a poor family, was obese and dull-witted. She also required a regular dose of medication to control her epileptic seizures.
While growing up Christine Falling would drop cat’s from lethal heights to “test their nine lives.” She would also strangle them, as her way of showing them her “love.”
At the age of nine, Christine and her sister were placed in a children’s refuge in Orlando for a year.
In September 1977, at the age of just 14, Christine Falling was married to a man in his twenties. Their marriage lasted six weeks due to the violent fights they would have. Christine once threw a 25 pound stereo at her husband during one of their fights. After the break-up, she lapsed into a bizarre hypochondriac phase, going to the hospital fifty times for reasons such as: “red spots”, vaginal bleeding, and snakebites. Doctor’s rarely found any treatable symptoms.
Christine Falling – The Baby Sitter
For work, Christine Falling would babysit for neighbors and relatives. On February 25, one of the children she was babysitting, 2-year-old Cassidy Johnson, was taken to a doctor’s office and was diagnosed as suffering from encephalitis. The girl died on February 28.
The autopsy listed the cause of death as blunt trauma to the skull. Christine said the baby “passed out” and fell from her crib. On physician didn’t believe Falling’s story, and wrote a note to police to have the babysitter checked out. The note was lost and the case was closed.
Later, Christine moved on to Lakeland, Florida. Two months after arriving, four year old Jeffrey Davis “stopped breathing” while in her care. An autopsy revealed symptoms of myocarditis, a heart problem which is rarely fatal.
Three day’s later, while Jeffrey’s family attended his funeral, Christine Falling babysat two year old Joseph Spring, the deceased boy’s cousin. Joseph died that afternoon in his crib while “napping”. Physicians noted there was a viral infection that may have killed baby Joseph, and quite possibly baby Jeffrey as well.
In July of 1981, Christine Falling moved on to housekeeping. Her bad luck wasn’t getting any better when 77-year-old Wilbur Swindle died in his kitchen on her first day on the job.
A while later, Falling, along with her stepsister, took her 8-month-old niece to the doctor’s office, where the child received some standard childhood vaccinations. On the way home, the stepsister stopped by the market leaving Christine Falling alone with the child. When she returned, the baby had simply “stopped breathing.”
Christine Falling was found to be a “victim of circumstance”, until July 2, 1982, when ten-week-old Travis Coleman died in Falling’s care. The autopsy revealed internal ruptures, caused by suffocation.
Christine was taken in for questioning where she admitted to killing three of the baby’s by “smotheration”, where she would press a blanket over their faces in response to disembodied voices chanting, “Kill the baby.”
“The way I done it, I seen it done on a TV show,” she explained. “I had my own way, though. Simple and easy. No one would hear them scream.” Based on her confession, she was given a term of life imprisonment, with no parole for the first 25 years.
Christine Falling became eligible for parole after serving her 25 years. It was denied. The babysitter killer will stay behind bars, probably for the rest of her life.
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