
AP Photo/DuPage County Sheriff's Department
Elzbieta Plackowska in a booking photo provided by the DuPage County Sheriff's Department in Wheaton, Ill.
A Naperville, Ill., woman who allegedly stabbed her son 100 times and a girl 50 times told police there were "devils" inside the children that she needed to kill, according to a prosecutor.
At 40-year-old Elzbieta Plackowska's bond hearing Thursday morning, DuPage County State Attorney Robert Berlin explained Plackowska's alleged comments. "She stated the children had evil inside of them and she was trying to drive the devil out of them," Berlin said, according to NBCChicago.com.
Police say that on Tuesday Plackowska fatally stabbed her 7-year-old son Justin 100 times and 5-year-old Olivia Dworakowski 50 times, according to the Chicago Tribune. At the time, Plackowska was babysitting her son and the girl at Olivia’s home in Naperville, about 30 miles west of Chicago, the newspaper reported. She allegedly told the kids to kneel and pray before stabbing them, NBCChicago.com reported, and also told her son that he was going to heaven.
Prosecutors say both the kids' throats were slashed, the Tribune reported.
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After the murders, Plackowska tried to go to a Naperville church but found it closed, so she left a message on its answering machine saying she had done something bad and needed assistance, Berlin said, according to The Associated Press. Covered in blood and with scratches on her hands, she went to a friend's home where her other, adult son was staying and told them that she had been robbed, Berlin said.
Prosecutors say Plackowska initially told police a stalker broke into the townhouse and committed the crimes, the Tribune reported.
Plackowska later told police that she stabbed her son to death to hurt her husband who "didn't appreciate her," according to NBCChicago.com. She said she killed the girl and two dogs because they witnessed the crime, NBCChicago.com reported.
Berlin said investigators found two blood-stained knives; one in the kitchen sink at the townhome and another in Plackowska's car, according to the AP.
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"In all my years in law enforcement, this is the most gruesome and horrific crime scene that I have seen," Naperville police Chief Bob Marshall said at the news conference, according to the AP.
Plackowska is being held without bond on two counts of first degree murder, NBCChicago.com reported. Berlin said Plackowska has no prior history of violence, the AP reported.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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Life +25 years for each murder.
Since the death penalty takes longer and is more expensive, we're better off just putting her away.
She may or may not be crazy, but she is evil.
Jeez...as a parent, this has me teary eyed at my desk. What the heck is this world coming to?
And who says the religion only does good? remember folks religions breed more crazy people than anything else in this world.
Do you have anything to badck that up or are you just spouting off? Yes I am angry right now over some of these comments.
There are good and bad people in every walk of life and I am SO TIRED of the bashing people gert who believe in God and the Bible. You lump us all together without knowing anything about us.
Another illegal immigrant mental case....the government needs to start executing these animals!
Listen, I certainly don't embrace religion in my life, but absolutely support those who do and have that kind of faith - actually wish I understood it more, but the fact is, this was not about religion. This is about some crazy, selfish "B" deciding her hubby didn't appreciate her enough so she was going to get back at him. These are the kind of cases that the death penalty should be reserved for and actually carried out for.
Sounds like she took some meds. About a year ago another woman stabbed her little girl, claiming the same "devil in side" my child' thing. It turns out she had been taking anti-weight gain pils. Very abnormal to stab anyone 150 times especially your own kids unless the devil was indeed in you.
" She said she killed the girl and two dogs because they witnessed the crime"
No doubt she is NUTS!!! Elzbieta Plackowska is that a Irish name?
She is a Polish immigrant. Came in 14 years ago on a vacation visa and never left.
Two words: "bath salts"
if she would be alive for 150 stabbings that's what she needs to get. then throw her to some angry wolves. and if there's anything left throw her in boiling water with salt.
i don't want to hear that this is sick. this lady deserves this and more. what on earth????
She admitted to the killings to get back at her husband because he did not appreciate her.
INSTANT DEATH
When events like this happen, after recoiling from the initial shock, I ask myself, "What drove this woman to do this?"
And my answer is always, "She is really 'out of her mind' and needs psychiatric help."
Then my question is, "How could her family miss so many red flags that must have shot up while she was interacting with them all?"
Doug: The only religion here is SATANISM!!! Worship of Satan by entertaining & receiving the lying suggestion in her head to kill these kids. And for that she should be shot and not rehab'd.
If we begin to grasp what it really means to be responsible for one another, then we
can also understand that these events happen because of what we do and don't do
as the bystanders, the family members and friends, who "never noticed anything
different."
She has changed her story so many times, and now she is sticking to the, 'I did it to drive the demons out.' Really?! They should lock this lady up for good and don't pull the insanity, mentally unstable crap. She knew she was in the wrong when she made the call, then kept changing her story.
She was probably coached on what to say about the devil part. It makes a good case for her going to a mental institution, rather than an actual prison. Shameful. Disgusting.
Those poor children, and dogs ='(
Batsh1t crazy.
Poor little ones. R.I.P
*Scratches off all Eastern European-sounding names off baby sitter ad replies.
Better add hispanic names to that list after what the nanny did in NYC.
I think we'll just have date night at home from now on.
Well, thank goodness she didn't shoot them in Chicago, she'd be in real trouble.
Religion is a beautiful thing.
Whoever says religion has anything to do with this is full of crap and has no clue.
This sounds like a Liberal Obama supporter who was told her entitlement check was delayed by Hurricane Sandy.
Actually this is how Mormons handle unwanted pregnancies that they are forbidden to abort. It's actually a sanctioned Mormon rite, a reason we the non-Mormons are so restricted from their secrets.
Ok, let me see if I have this right. She gets a knife, goes into where the kids are, then repeatedly stabs, over and over, until blood is literally everywhere. She repeats this on her other child, and then apparently does it the same way on the dogs. All of the stabbing victims are dead.
Then she concocts at least three different stories to create some assemblance of reasoning, so that the authorities will think she had nothing to do with it, or that if she did, then it was all justified.
Psychiatrist One will say she's insane. Psychiatrist Two will claim several other mental illnesses. The defense attorney will point to their testimony and give this as a reason why she cannot be found guilty because of insanity.
I like the hanging in the public square concept a previous poster suggested. The one-shot execution would also be nice, but just before the shot rings out, show her the photographs of the children before and after the act. Show her how they looked when they were happy, and then show her the crime photos when the police showed up. Maybe throw in last year's birthday party photos for good measure. Make her look at all of them, then blast the living daylights out of her.
Someone, somewhere, needs to stand up for the children - all children - and protect them. We aren't doing enough when it comes to cases like this one. They'll never see graduation, their proms, getting their driver's licenses, dating, falling in love or anything else that goes with being a kid. It's despicable.
I absolutely hate her for what she did to those children, and I am not at all ashamed to say it. May she rot from the inside out.
This had nothing to do with religion. This is about a woman who was extremely bitter, emotionally devestated, and mentally unstable because of how she was potentially treated by her husband. Maybe her husband did not appreciate her -- maybe he did. In either case, her actions of revenge against her husband by killing the children are so unthinkably shocking that I can hardly believe it. Hurt and/or abused people can behave in ways that are very unexpected. I wonder if she was mistreated by her husband or if she was just mentally unstable. No normal person could do such a thing.
Disgusting.
100 times and 50 times? First, some coroner had to count that many stab wounds in the body of a dead 7 year old and 5 year old.
And this woman had to stab the babies' little bodies A HUNDRED AND FIFTY TIMES. In a stabbing motion, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, ....47, 48, 49,...83, 84, 85,...98, 99, 100...........1, 2, 3, 4,
I think all of us adults can suspend the community guidelines for a second when I say Jesus f**king holy f**king f**k Christ!
And I'm not religious, mainly agnostic, but if you're hardcore enough atheist, gay who religious people won't let marry, whatever makes you have an axe to grind to bring up religion here, this to me almost makes a case for religion.
I mean, you'd think even the worst psycho would just plain get tired, and also lose the passion after 40 or so stabbings of an innocent child's body. I don't believe in such things, but I'd almost be tempted to believe this bitch was possessed.
Anyone who thinks they're empathetic or sympathetic enough to even grasp this, I doubt you or I have the capacity to come even close to realizing what happened in that house. This makes any Halloween horror movie plot sound like a My Little Pony episode. Holy crap.
Rage Bill, it was all about complete and unfettered rage. The crazy kind.
Carrie's Mother come to mind.
She lied to the prosecutor hours after her arrest claiming "evil" and "Demons" to try to cop an insanity plea.
She previously claimed it was a burglar then admitted to the police that it was revenge against her ex-husband.
Why not try reading the article before you pontificate a page a rubbish?
Jeff D,
How low is your IQ. Were you one of those "special" kids? I mean, your reading comprehension is so poor I don't even know what the hell your reply is about. Take some Ritalin and read my post again, all the way through this time son. And stop clicking your own like arrow.
Can you say DRUGS.....more than likely she was on drugs....Ice, Crack..to name a few that would make her see things that really weren't there; why isn't there EVER a mention about the DRUG problem in this country when it comes to crimes? Did you ever notice that the only time "under the influence" is mentioned is when your driving? Drugs are responsible for soooo many horrible acts! She may have over done it ... and obviously lost it! I wonder how long it had been since she got some sleep? God bless the children for they are his, Amen. Just saying...drugs are left out of the equation in this system/media of ours...why? I'll tell ya why, MONEY.
First, you're running pretty hard with your theory that she was on drugs. And second, people who do stuff like this tend to be the ones who won't take their drugs.