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flrsday, November 29, 2001
THE BATTALION
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-Cdjoctor’s wife accused of killing
eir three children goes to trial
IJJ/HEATON, III. (AP) — The
K^ing 911 ca n came from a
suburban Chicago
Ihborhood: “My three kids
lead,” the woman said, then
ed: “I did it.”
Jwo and half years after
Ireiency crews responding to
call found Nicholas,. 7,
jly, 6, and Thomas,'3, dead,
filyn Lemak went on trial
day for their murders,
osecutors said in opening
tments that Lemak was upset
|hercrumbling marriage and
[that her husband was seeing
Jer woman so she drugged
Ithen suffocated the children,
]tried to kill herself.
IThe killing of her children
] a purposeful act meant to
: her husband pain ... and to
fcpity upon herself." DuPage
|nty Assistant State’s
eyJoe Ruggiero said,
efense attorney Joe Bugos
Ithe prosecution theory was
)simple. Lemak’s actions
those of a distraught
ban on medication and “the
culmination of the deep down
ward spiral of major depres
sion,” he said.
In her delusional state,
Lemak thought she was helping
her children by feeding them her
anti-depression medication and
then suffocating them, Bugos
said. She then took medication
and slit her wrists.
“She went to sleep never
expecting to wake up again in
this world,” Bugos said. “She
would be with Nicholas, Emily
and Thomas, and nobody would
be sad anymore.”
Lemak did wake up. She
called 911, pleading for help and
telling the dispatcher she had
killed her children.
Lemak, 44, appeared gaunt
and pale as she sat in the court
room Tuesday, brushing back
tears at times.
As the prosecution began
calling witnesses, her former
husband took the stand.
David Lemak described a
“wonderful life” shortly after he,
a young doctor, married the sur-
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The killing of her
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— Joe Ruggiero
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assistant state’s attorney
wife in the months preceding the
killings.
“She didn’t speak much to
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David Lemak was expected
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Bugos said the evidence
would show that Marilyn
Lemak’s actions “were not the
manifestation of evil but the
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