Nobody Knew Who Killed This Child. When The Killer Confessed 50 Years Later, Everyone Was SHOCKED Janice Summerfield, a woman from Battle Creek, Michigan gave birth to twins in 1960. By May of 1961, post-partum depression had taken her to a low state of mental health. On May 29, 1961, Summerfield admits that she did something that she has regretted for the last 55 years. As a 78-year-old woman, Janice finally has come clean and admitted that it was she that had killed her infant son William Summerfield III. The first person she told was her now 55 year old daughter Paula Gastian, who was Williams twin sister. Paula took the information to the Calhoun County Sheriff Department, which shortly opened up an investigation. The Prosecutor, however, has decline to charge Janice with the crime 55 years later. Based on inconclusive medical results, I am not comfortable at this time proceeding, he said. We have many cold cases that are 25 or 30 years old, but in this case the scientific evidence made it very difficult. We wanted to do the right thing because we only have one chance at prosecution. Janice said, in tears: I killed that baby. My mind wasnt right. I killed that baby. I didnt know what I was doing. They exhumed the body but found it was too degraded to gather any scientific evidence. Possibly the worst part of this story is that when it happened, Janice blamed the murder on her son Phil, who was 4 years old at the time. 58-year-old Phil had lived with the guilt his entire life, until this revelation. Two other children in that family also died in suspicious circumstances, and daughter Paula blames her mother for those. 