Natalie and Jonathan Chase DeBlase -- Missing 3/01/10

Could They Have Been Saved?

Last Updated: Wed, December 08, 2010 - 9:24 pm CST
Mobile Police believe their deaths could have been prevented.


WKRG.com News

MOBILE, Alabama - There are haunting questions surrounding the deaths of Chase and Natalie DeBlase.
Could they have been saved?
And how?
Since their deaths, Mobile Police have interviewed people who knew the children and arrived at a shocking conclusion.
Officer Christopher Levy with the Mobile Police Department said, "We see this whole incident as preventable."
Why?
No one spoke up about what they had seen.
Levy said, "Now, we have a number of people that are coming forward, and they're giving accounts of abuse, and times when they saw the children with injuries, and burns, and all these things."

Pat Guyton with the Child Advocacy Center said, "If someone had intervened and made a report, these children's lives may have been saved."
And Guyton said that's disheartening and disturbing.



Not a soul on this earth cared about these two children, not one...... I know the grandparents took care of them for quite awhile and lost contact with their son. Everyone that was around them knew that Natalie and Chase were being severely abused.....and did nothing. No one was even looking for them........

Piper wrote:There's a video of her above. She hasn't seen them in a year, nor has she attempted to. She said she didn't have a job and no place to live.

Thanks Piper. I have a real problem with this. A year is a long time to not have contact with your "babies". Has she been unemployed this whole time with no where to live? There wasn't one relative or friend willing to help her? It seems she felt that Monsterman hit the children inappropiately when they were together, why wouldn't she do everything/anything to protect them? Couldn't she have gone to some kind of agency like legal aid or something? Perhaps I'm judging her too harshly but I'm damn sick of hearing about all these children being murdered by a parent or parents.

These two innocents could have been saved, and should have been saved. It isn't right, that their abuse was seen, continued to happen and went unreported. Two little darlings who would have made someone's life complete, with them to love.
I hope the father and his G/F both get charged. The father looks like a POS, as does his G/F. And to think these two produced a third child is additionally appalling.

Alabama Authorities Find Remains of Murdered Girl

Published December 11, 2010
Associated Press



CITRONELLE, Ala. -- Searchers found human remains Saturday believed to be the daughter of an Alabama man already charged with murdering the girl and her younger brother, police said.

Mobile Police Maj. Kara Rose said search teams found the remains at 9 a.m., just half an hour after authorities began scouring the woods along six miles of a rural county road.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/12/11/alabama-authorities-remains-murdered-girl/

This is so heartbreaking...but I'm glad they've found her.

Police: New charges for girlfriend of father arrested in kids' deaths

By the CNN Wire Staff
December 13, 2010 10:25 p.m. EST

(CNN) -- Police have ratcheted up charges against the girlfriend of an Alabama father, days after searchers found fragmented remains they say are of the second of the man's young children, tossed along the side of a remote highway.

Mobile, Alabama, police spokesman Christopher Levy said Monday that Heather Keaton would be charged with two counts of aggravated child abuse and two counts of abuse of a corpse -- one count each for the deaths of Jonathan DeBlase, 3, and his sister Natalie, 4.

The children's father, John Joseph DeBlase, 27, was arrested December 3 and is now charged with two counts of murder and two counts of abuse of a corpse.

John DeBlase's lawyer, Jim Sears, said Monday that his client maintains "his innocence in regards to the death of the children." Sears added that DeBlase might consider pleading not guilty by reason of disease or mental defect (equivalent to an insanity plea in other jurisdictions).

Read more:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/12/13/alabama.missing.children/index.html?hpt=T2

Stepmom Of Dead Children Pleads Not Guilty

Published: Tue, December 14, 2010 - 9:55 am CST

Heather Keaton is charged with abusing Chase and Natalie DeBlase. Her common-law husband, John DeBlase, is accused of killing the children and dumping their bodies.


MOBILE, Alabama - A 22-year-old woman is being held in Alabama on $206,000 bond after pleading not guilty to charges of abusing her common-law husband's two young children, whose bodies were dumped in woods.

An attorney entered the plea for Heather Leavell-Keaton at a bond hearing Tuesday in Mobile. She had been brought back to Alabama from Kentucky.

http://www.wkrg.com/alabama/article/stepmom-of-dead-children-pleads-not-guilty/1203286/Dec-14-2010_9-55-am/

How sad ... these 2 little children endured a horrendous life.. and to think that monster had an oppurtunity with a 3rd baby!

I personally dont believe (yet) the allegations made by monster about his commonlaw...

At least I dont believe them yet. I doubt that she inflicted the discipline directly... but she sure must have known what was going on.... Her own sick mind allowed her stay with this monster and not reach out for help, when the kids cud have been saved. Coming forward so many months later only for her own selfish reasons, only show that she still chose to put her self first over these 2 angels lives. She allowed her own insecurities to drive her, and the lives of innocent children.

She came forward too late... she still stayed 4 months after she knew those kids were (unresponsive) gone... for this she shud pay.. she was the only one that cud have spared the children, and saved them, and she chose her needs, over 2 innocent childrens lives...She may as well watched them be thrown into a pool, where she watched them sink... She is just as bad, but I hope that monster doesnt get anyone buying his story how he was her victim.. Im sure he was the one who did the torturing, and murders while she stood by..!

God Bless them both! They are free from their monsters and all the ppl who never cared....

Police: Alabama stepmom told jail inmate she poisoned 2 children with antifreeze in their food

Associated Press
Last update: February 14, 2011 - 1:34 PM

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She told the inmate that she and common-law husband John DeBlase wanted the children dead because "it would be better if they had less responsibilities," the detective said

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The detective said Russell learned the couple first poisoned their dog with antifreeze "to find out how long it would take to kill a living thing." Then they started giving antifreeze to the children, who got progressively sicker.

Natalie died March 4, 2010, and they dumped her body, the detective said. They stopped poisoning Chase for a few months but started back because he began crying and asking for his sister in front of others, she testified.

Chase died June 20. On the way to dump his body in Mississippi, they stopped at a video game store to buy two games because they no longer had the responsibilities of the children, the detective said.

Read more: http://www.startribune.com/nation/116176199.html

Oh my God............

Signs and Symptoms of Antifreeze Poisoning

•Nausea
•Vomiting
•Abdominal pain
•Frequent and/or painful urination
•Kidney pain and eventually kidney failure
•Dizziness
•Stupor similar to intoxication (drunkeness)
•Shortness of breath (dyspnea)
•Rapid breathing (tachypnea)
•Diminished reflexes
•Muscle spasms (cramps) and twitching
•Partial or complete paralysis of certain body parts
•Pancreatitis
•Metabolic acidosis
•Blindness
•Seizures
•Low levels of calcium (hypocalcemia), magnesium (hypomagnesemia) and a high level of potassium (hyperkalemia) in the blood, similar to fluoride poisoning.
Depending on the quantity of antifreeze consumed and whether prompt medical treatment is sought, antifreeze poisoning will lead to death.

Antifreeze Poisoning Symptoms

The initial antifreeze poisoning symptoms are like those that one has when one is intoxicated. These are commonly nausea, vomiting, dizziness and uncoordinated movements. In fact, antifreeze poisoning proceeds through three stages with each stages having certain specific symptoms. The three stages and their symptoms are:

Stage One: Neurological and gastrointestinal symptoms start showing within half an hour to 12 hours of ingestion of antifreeze. These include dizziness, nausea, confusion, headache, slurred speech, convulsions, fatigue, stupor and vomiting. These antifreeze poisoning symptoms in humans start showing while ethylene glycol is being broken down into its toxic components. Some may even pass into coma.

Stage Two: Antifreeze poisoning enters its second stage within 12 to 24 hours of antifreeze consumption. Increased heart rate, high blood pressure and muscle spasms occur during this time. In case of serious poisoning, severe metabolic acidosis takes place which is accompanied with hyperventilation and multiple organ failure. If adequate antifreeze poisoning treatment is not made available to the victim, he may also die at this stage.

Stage Three: Within 24 hours to 72 hours of ethylene glycol ingestion, the toxic metabolites attack the kidneys. This stage is characterized by decreased or no production of urine, presence of red blood cells (blood) in urine, lower back pain and acute kidney failure.

Antifreeze Poisoning In Dogs and Cats

Antifreeze poisoning in cats and dogs gets a separate mention because cases of antifreeze poisoning is more common in animals than in human beings. Progression of toxicity of ethylene glycol is almost the same in animals and human beings and so are the symptoms. However, there are some typical signs that most dog owners have reported as antifreeze poisoning symptoms in dogs and cats. Initial symptoms are those of alcohol intoxication. They may stagger, appear depressed and have seizures in the first couple of hours. Poisoned animals also drink lots of water and urinate excessively. Although they may appear to be better after they have passed this stage, conditions of cats after one day and that of dogs after two days start deteriorating. They may develop diarrhea, mouth ulcer and weakness. Some signs of kidney failure like depression and vomiting become evident. They either don't pass any urine or the amount decreases drastically.

Blood and urine tests are done by veterinarians to determine the level of poisoning. In case, the animal has been taken to the vet within a few hours of having consumed the liquid, then the vet may induce vomiting and place charcoal in the stomach to bind antifreeze in the intestine. The pet may also be prescribed drugs that prevent liver from breaking ethylene glycol to its toxic components. Dialysis has to be performed in case the kidney has been affected by the poisonous metabolites of ethylene glycol.

Be it human beings or animals, it is best to get medical help at the earliest after antifreeze ingestion is suspected. An individual has the best chance of recovering from antifreeze poisoning if he gets medical help before ethylene glycol is broken into its toxic metabolites. If too much delay is made in getting treatment, it can result in death of an individual.

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/antifreeze-poisoning.html

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The couple bought gallons of antifreeze at Walmart, the detective said, and they cooked their own meals separately from the children's meals.

John DeBlase would pour the antifreeze into a cup, and Leavell-Keaton then added it to the children's food, the detective said.

Both children slowly got more sick, including vomiting and other signs of organ failure.



Natalie died on March 4 after she was placed in a bathtub, Prine said, and they dumped her body near Citronelle.

For a few months, they stopped poisoning Chase for a few months, but decided that he would be a "liability" after he started crying and asking for his missing sister in front of other people, according to testimony.


On June 20, Chase got very sick and died, Prine said.


On the way to dump his body in Mississippi, Keaton said she and John DeBlase stopped at a video game store to buy two games because they didn't have any more responsibilities, according to the detective.

Prine said that the stepmother also recounted several incidents of torture and abuse the children suffered.


Keaton was jealous of Natalie, according to the detective, and she burned her with cigarettes and hot candle wax, pulled out her hair in clumps, and beat her with a fly swatter.

On the day she died, Natalie was locked inside a suitcase, which was sitting in their kitchen as her father cooked, according to the detective.


John DeBlase faces two counts of felony murder and two counts of abuse of a corpse in connection with his children's deaths.


Keaton's defense attorney, Richard Horne, attempted to call DeBlase to the witness stand to testify in the hearing. DeBlase briefly appeared in court, but he invoked his constitutional right to remain silent.

http://blog.al.com/live/2011/02/mobile_police_deblase_children.html

These two babies suffered beyond belief. I have to believe their final breaths were a welcome release from this torture. And they practiced on the dog first........I am just sickened.

Unbelievable how cruel these two were! I'm sickened too.