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New York Woman Convicted in Infant Daughter's Death and Suspected of Killing 7 of Her 8 Other Children Is Freed From Prison

Marybeth Tinning was convicted of killing her infant daughter, Tami Lynne, in the 1980s and has been imprisoned since 1987

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  • A New York woman convicted of killing her infant daughter in 1985 and suspected of killing seven of her eight other children has been freed
  • The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision says Marybeth Tinning has been released from Taconic Correctional Facility
  • A jury convicted the Marybeth Tinning, a Schenectady resident, of killing her ninth child, 4-year-old Tami Lynne, in December 1985

A 75-year-old New York woman who was convicted of killing her baby daughter in 1985 and suspected of killing seven of her eight other children has been freed from prison.

The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision confirmed Tuesday that Marybeth Tinning has been released from Taconic Correctional Facility in Bedford Hills and will be supervised by officials in Schenectady County, where she lives.

Her release was approved in July after a parole hearing, her seventh since being imprisoned in 1987.

A jury convicted Tinning of killing her ninth child, 4-month-old Tami Lynne, in December 1985. She was one of Marybeth and Joseph Tinning's eight young children to die between 1972 and 1985 under suspicious circumstances.

Marybeth Tinning was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison.

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