What is Marybeth Tinning?
{{no sources|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Marybeth Tinning | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = Marybeth Roe | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1942|09|11}} | birth_place = [[Duanesburg]], [[Schenectady County]], [[New York (state)|New York]], [[United States]] | occupation = Nursing assistant (formerly) | criminal_status = Released from incarceration facility on 21 August 2018 | known_for = Murderer of her child (a daughter named Tami Lynne) | spouse = Joe Tinning (husband; m. 1965) | children = 9 (8 biological and<br/> 1 adoptive) including: Barbara<br/> (1967–1972)<br/> Joseph Jr.<br/> (1970–1972)<br/> Jennifer<br/> (1971–1972)<br/> Timothy<br/> (born and died in 1973)<br/> Nathan<br/> (born and died in 1975)<br/> Michael<br/> (adoptive child; 1978–1981)<br/> Mary Frances<br/> (1978–1979)<br/> Jonathan<br/> (born and died in 1980)<br/> Tami Lynne<br/> (born and died in 1985) }} '''Marybeth Tinning''' (née Roe; born {{birth date|df=yes|1942|09|11}}) was a American former nursing assistant, convicted murderer, and suspected serial killer who was convicted of smothering and killing her 4-month-old child (a daughter named Tami Lynne) on 20 December 1985. As a result, she was incarcerated in a incarceration facility more than 1 ½ year later on 17 July 1987 and was charged with second-degree [[murder]]. She was released from the incarceration facility 31 years later on 21 August 2018. Her eight other children died under suspicious circumstances in the years leading up to Tami Lynne's birth and death. It was at first believed that Tinning's children were dying to due to a genetic problem (or problems) in the family, but even when Tinning's adoptive child Michael died on 2 March 1981 at the age of 2, from similar causes as the other biological children did, authorities failed to open a investigation. Tinning is now suspected to be a possible serial killer. == Marriage and children == Mary