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 Reading Eagle: Ryan McFadden Michele G.M. Kalina is led into District Judge Wally Scott's office Monday by Berks County Detectives Ramon J. Caraballo, behind Kalina, and Robert P. Heiden, right. 
 
 
 
 Kalina, 44, was married to Jeffrey E. Kalina, 54, while she was having an affair with another man for 14 years, officials said. 
 
 
 
 Kalina also gave birth on Oct. 22, 2003, to a girl she had with the boyfriend, whom authorities declined to identify. 
 
 
 
 The boyfriend has denied to police knowing of that birth or that Kalina had put the infant up for adoption, officials said. 
 
 
 
 Berks County District Attorney John T. Adams said Kalina did not let her husband or their daughter, Elizabeth, 19, know about the pregnancies. 
 
 
 
 "Nobody knew she was pregnant," Adams said. "I've been involved in the criminal justice system for 25 years and this is the most bizarre thing I've heard." 
 
 
 
 Chief County Detective Michael J. Gombar said that some women can hide pregnancies. 
 
 
 
 "We have not spoken to anyone who came forward and said they have seen her pregnant," Gombar said. 
 
 
 
 Kalina initially was charged on Aug. 9 with abuse of a corpse, following the discovery of remains in a closet of the family's Court Street apartment. 
 
 
 
 Following a 21/2 month investigation, Kalina was charged additionally with a blanket charge of criminal homicide in the five deaths. 
 
 
 
 Adams said that prosecutors will determine before trial the number of homicide counts. Homicide could include murder or manslaughter. 
 
 
 
 Kalina was arraigned Monday before District Judge Wally Scott on the homicide and related charges. She was returned to Berks County Prison without bail. 
 
 
 
 Kalina's lawyer, Assistant Public Defender Holly Feeney, declined to comment on the case. 
 
 
 
 "We are not going to try this case in the press," she said. 
 
 
 
 Following her Aug. 9 arrest, Kalina was linked to the deaths by DNA evidence conducted at National Medical Services, Willow Grove, Montgomery County, Adams said. 
 
 
 
 Dr. Neil A. Hoffman, a forensic pathologist, reported that the deaths were violent, caused by asphyxia, poisoning or neglect. 
 
 
 
 In addition to the two children she had with her husband, Kalina gave birth to three boys, one girl and another infant whose gender could not be determined, investigators said. 
 
 
 
 Police found the remains of four infants in her apartment in the 700 block of Court Street during searches in late July and early August, investigators said. 
 
 
 
 Remains of a fifth infant were found Aug. 6 in the Conestoga Landfill, New Morgan, authorities said. 
 
 
 
 DNA testing linked three infants to Kalina as the mother and the boyfriend as the father. 
 
 
 
 The evidence linked a fourth baby to Kalina as the mother, with the boyfriend as the possible father. 
 
 
 
 The DNA evidence on the fifth infant was inconclusive as to the identity of the parents. 
 
 
 
 Adams said the babies were born between 1996 and 2010, the period when Kalina was seeing the boyfriend. 
 
 
 
 According to court records: 
 
 
 
 The boyfriend told police the relationship was intermittent. 
 
 
 
 He noticed Kalina's stomach was growing when they started seeing each other in 1996. 
 
 
 
 The boyfriend said Kalina told him that she had a cyst on her fallopian tubes. 
 
 
 
 The boyfriend said the cyst appeared as many as four times over the years they carried on the affair. Kalina, however, denied to police that she had cysts. 
 
 
 
 Coroner Dennis J. Hess said medical officials could not determine the specific dates of the births. 
 
 
 
 "I don't have a clue why she would do this," Hess said. "This is one of the strangest cases we've ever had." 
 
 
 
 In an interview with police on Aug. 9, Kalina said the family moved in April 2008 to Court Street from a house on Raymond Street in Muhlenberg Township. 
 
 
 
 At the time of the move, Kalina told police, three containers of human remains were moved from the Raymond Street house and placed in a closet in the Court Street apartment. 
 
 
 
 She said they lived in Muhlenberg Township from 1997 to 2003. 
 
 
 
 Kalina admitted that she is an alcoholic. 
 
 
 
 Kalina told police that she was upset the night they found the remains in the apartment closet. 
 
 
 
 Jeffrey Kalina quoted his wife as saying: "I don't know where to go. I can't find peace there. I can't find peace anymore. 
 
 
 
 "I'm concerned I'm being framed." 
 
 
 
 The investigation began July 29, when Elizabeth Kalina called Reading police at 5 a.m. to report that she found human remains in a red cooler in a storage closet. 
 
 
 
 Patrol officers responded and looked at the remains. They told Elizabeth and her father the remains were not human. 
 
 
 
 The father and daughter then threw them in the trash. 
 
 
 
 At 9 that night, Jeffrey Kalina notified police again, saying he and his daughter had found two more plastic containers. 
 
 
 
 During a search of the Court Street apartment, police found three containers, including one filled to the top with cement. 
 
 
 
 The following day, police searched the trash bin outside the building for the remains that had been in the first container. The remains had already been taken to the landfill. 
 
 
 
 On Aug. 5, police searched the apartment again and recovered another set of bones in a plastic bag. 
 
 
 
 Police also found a letter that Kalina had written to her boyfriend informing him that she gave birth to a girl on Oct. 22, 2003, in St. Joseph Medical Center, then gave the baby to the Diocese of Allentown Catholic Social Agency for adoption. 
 
 
 
 Hospital records showed that Kalina had a normal delivery. 
 
 
 
 On Aug. 6, police went to the Conestoga Landfill in New Morgan and found the red cooler and one human bone. 
 
 
 
 After locating the five sets of remains, police interviewed Jeffrey Kalina. 
 
 
 
 He said his wife had been employed for 14 years as a home-care aide for the elderly by Interim Healthcare, Wyomissing. 
 
 
 
 Employment records did not indicate that Kalina was pregnant or had taken time off to have children. 
 
 
 
 Jeffrey Kalina said the remains were in a closet since the family moved to the Court Street apartment in 2008. He said his wife told him and his daughter never to go into the closet. 
 
 
 
 Kalina and her husband also had a son, Andrew, who died June 9, 2000, at age 13 of positional asphyxiation, Hess said. 
 
 
 
 The son suffered from cerebral palsy, a debilitating disease that rendered Andrew bed-bound. 
 
 
 
 Contact Holly Herman: 610-478-6291 or hherman@readingeagle.com. 
 
 
 
 No one knew that Michele G.M. Kalina was pregnant five times with the infants she was charged Monday with killing - not even the father of the babies.Kalina, 44, was married to Jeffrey E. Kalina, 54, while she was having an affair with another man for 14 years, officials said.Kalina also gave birth on Oct. 22, 2003, to a girl she had with the boyfriend, whom authorities declined to identify.The boyfriend has denied to police knowing of that birth or that Kalina had put the infant up for adoption, officials said.Berks County District Attorney John T. Adams said Kalina did not let her husband or their daughter, Elizabeth, 19, know about the pregnancies."Nobody knew she was pregnant," Adams said. "I've been involved in the criminal justice system for 25 years and this is the most bizarre thing I've heard."Chief County Detective Michael J. Gombar said that some women can hide pregnancies."We have not spoken to anyone who came forward and said they have seen her pregnant," Gombar said.Kalina initially was charged on Aug. 9 with abuse of a corpse, following the discovery of remains in a closet of the family's Court Street apartment.Following a 21/2 month investigation, Kalina was charged additionally with a blanket charge of criminal homicide in the five deaths.Adams said that prosecutors will determine before trial the number of homicide counts. Homicide could include murder or manslaughter.Kalina was arraigned Monday before District Judge Wally Scott on the homicide and related charges. She was returned to Berks County Prison without bail.Kalina's lawyer, Assistant Public Defender Holly Feeney, declined to comment on the case."We are not going to try this case in the press," she said.Following her Aug. 9 arrest, Kalina was linked to the deaths by DNA evidence conducted at National Medical Services, Willow Grove, Montgomery County, Adams said.Dr. Neil A. Hoffman, a forensic pathologist, reported that the deaths were violent, caused by asphyxia, poisoning or neglect.In addition to the two children she had with her husband, Kalina gave birth to three boys, one girl and another infant whose gender could not be determined, investigators said.Police found the remains of four infants in her apartment in the 700 block of Court Street during searches in late July and early August, investigators said.Remains of a fifth infant were found Aug. 6 in the Conestoga Landfill, New Morgan, authorities said.DNA testing linked three infants to Kalina as the mother and the boyfriend as the father.The evidence linked a fourth baby to Kalina as the mother, with the boyfriend as the possible father.The DNA evidence on the fifth infant was inconclusive as to the identity of the parents.Adams said the babies were born between 1996 and 2010, the period when Kalina was seeing the boyfriend.According to court records:The boyfriend told police the relationship was intermittent.He noticed Kalina's stomach was growing when they started seeing each other in 1996.The boyfriend said Kalina told him that she had a cyst on her fallopian tubes.The boyfriend said the cyst appeared as many as four times over the years they carried on the affair. Kalina, however, denied to police that she had cysts.Coroner Dennis J. Hess said medical officials could not determine the specific dates of the births."I don't have a clue why she would do this," Hess said. "This is one of the strangest cases we've ever had."In an interview with police on Aug. 9, Kalina said the family moved in April 2008 to Court Street from a house on Raymond Street in Muhlenberg Township.At the time of the move, Kalina told police, three containers of human remains were moved from the Raymond Street house and placed in a closet in the Court Street apartment.She said they lived in Muhlenberg Township from 1997 to 2003.Kalina admitted that she is an alcoholic.Kalina told police that she was upset the night they found the remains in the apartment closet.Jeffrey Kalina quoted his wife as saying: "I don't know where to go. I can't find peace there. I can't find peace anymore."I'm concerned I'm being framed."The investigation began July 29, when Elizabeth Kalina called Reading police at 5 a.m. to report that she found human remains in a red cooler in a storage closet.Patrol officers responded and looked at the remains. They told Elizabeth and her father the remains were not human.The father and daughter then threw them in the trash.At 9 that night, Jeffrey Kalina notified police again, saying he and his daughter had found two more plastic containers.During a search of the Court Street apartment, police found three containers, including one filled to the top with cement.The following day, police searched the trash bin outside the building for the remains that had been in the first container. The remains had already been taken to the landfill.On Aug. 5, police searched the apartment again and recovered another set of bones in a plastic bag.Police also found a letter that Kalina had written to her boyfriend informing him that she gave birth to a girl on Oct. 22, 2003, in St. Joseph Medical Center, then gave the baby to the Diocese of Allentown Catholic Social Agency for adoption.Hospital records showed that Kalina had a normal delivery.On Aug. 6, police went to the Conestoga Landfill in New Morgan and found the red cooler and one human bone.After locating the five sets of remains, police interviewed Jeffrey Kalina.He said his wife had been employed for 14 years as a home-care aide for the elderly by Interim Healthcare, Wyomissing.Employment records did not indicate that Kalina was pregnant or had taken time off to have children.Jeffrey Kalina said the remains were in a closet since the family moved to the Court Street apartment in 2008. He said his wife told him and his daughter never to go into the closet.Kalina and her husband also had a son, Andrew, who died June 9, 2000, at age 13 of positional asphyxiation, Hess said.The son suffered from cerebral palsy, a debilitating disease that rendered Andrew bed-bound.Contact Holly Herman: 610-478-6291 or hherman@readingeagle.com. 
 
 Advertise Here ||||| (CNN) -- A Pennsylvania woman was charged Monday with criminal homicide after forensic tests showed her to be the mother of four infants whose remains were found in her home in July, according to Berks County, Pennsylvania, District Attorney John Adams. 
 
 Authorities also linked her to a fifth set of infant remains found in a nearby landfill. 
 
 Michele Kalina, who has been in jail since she was arrested August 9 on charges relating to the discovery of the infants' remains at her home in Reading, was charged Monday with criminal homicide and five counts of "abuse of corpse" and is being held without bail, Adams said in a statement released by his office. 
 
 Kalina's teenage daughter first contacted authorities on July 29, unsure of what she had discovered in the living room closet, Adams told CNN. 
 
 Later that day, officers recovered the suspected remains of three infants from Kalina's apartment. 
 
 "These remains were stored in a living room closet and each infant was recovered from an individual plastic container," according to the district attorney's statement. "One of the containers contained an amount of cured cement, which was later determined to have encased the remains of one of the infants." 
 
 Detectives later recovered a fourth set of infant remains at the house, and found a bone believed to be from a fifth set of infant remains in a landfill. 
 
 Adams said DNA testing matched her positively to four of the five remains and a man Adams described as her boyfriend to three. 
 
 Adams said both the boyfriend and Kalina's husband denied knowledge of any pregnancies. 
 
 Kalina, a nurse's aide, "always sort of wore those scrubs and hid [her pregnancies] well," Adams told CNN. 
 
 According to the statement from Adams' office, the pathology report indicated four of the deaths were, "consistent with asphyxia, poisoning, or neglect." 
 
 "We may make the determination that we will charge her with four separate counts," Adams said. "However, this is a very unusual case and frankly we're going to have to discuss this with our forensic pathologist." 
 
 Kalina's attorney, public defender Holly Feeney, had no comment.
– A Pennsylvania woman successfully concealed five pregnancies from both her husband and the man she was having an affair with before killing the infants and hiding their bodies, say prosecutors. Nurse's aide Michele Kalina has been charged with criminal homicide in the deaths of the babies, whose remains were found in her home and in a landfill site, CNN reports. DNA testing has established that she is the mother of at least four of the infants, and her boyfriend is the father of at least three. All five of the babies were born during the 14 years Kalina was having an affair. She was arrested in August after her teenage daughter found the remains of an infant in a closet in the family's home. "Nobody knew she was pregnant," the district attorney told the Reading Eagle. "I've been involved in the criminal justice system for 25 years and this is the most bizarre thing I've heard." He says pathology reports show that four of the deaths are "consistent with asphyxia, poisoning, or neglect."