
Mitchelle Blair, 35, was evicted from her home in 2015 due to nonpayment of rent while she and her four children were residing on Detroit's east side. Nothing about Blair's case seemed particularly out of the ordinary at first glance. She had been having financial difficulties due to her unemployment. She had previously asked them for money, according to relatives. Blair was absent when the 36th District Court eviction team arrived at her residence early on March 24, 2015. Thus, the team entered the house and started moving furniture out. However, while attempting to move her freezer, they made a horrifying discovery that shocked the people of Detroit. The frozen body of a teenage girl was found wrapped in a large plastic bag inside a white deep freezer that the Wayne County Sheriff's Department bailiff opened in Mitchelle Blair's living room. And another body, a small boy covered in a blanket, was buried beneath her. These kids were named Stephen Berry and Stoni Blair, Mitchelle's son and daughter. Without any delay, a neighbor revealed Mitchelle Blair's location. Police quickly located her and her two children, ages eight and seventeen, at the home of another neighbor. However, Stephen Gage Berry and Stoni Ann Blair, her other children, were not present. Mitchelle Blair admitted to killing the kids and putting them in her freezer after being questioned for a short while. She allegedly admitted to the police that she wasn't evil as she was handcuffed. “It was just an evil act,” she said. The bodies were taken to a morgue by the authorities, where they had to thaw for three days in order to undergo an autopsy. Stephen Berry and Stoni Blair were identified as the deceased. The cause of death was determined to be blunt force trauma by the medical examiner, who declared their deaths to be homicides. Additionally, the medical examiner determined that Stephen's death was partly caused by "thermal injuries." It was found that Stoni, then thirteen, died in May 2013 and Stephen, then nine, died in August of 2012. They had spent more than two years in the freezer.