Michigan Mother Receives 20-Year Sentence for 2003 Murder of Newborn Twins

Antoinette Briley pleaded guilty to the murder of her twin sons, resolving a cold case that began over two decades ago.

Antoinette Briley, 44, was sentenced in Illinois after pleading guilty to suffocating her newborn twins in 2003.
The case, which had gone cold, was reopened in 2018 using advanced DNA and genetic genealogy techniques.
Briley was arrested in 2020 after DNA linked her to the infants found in a Chicago-area trash bin.
The infants died from asphyxiation shortly after birth; their bodies were discovered by a waste management worker.
Briley's guilty plea marks the end of a lengthy judicial process, including initial charges of first-degree murder.