[PHOTO] Bodies of two children aged 11 & 14 inside freezer 'for more than a YEAR while mother lived in the house with her two other kids'

Michelle Blair, 35

The bodies of two children found in a Detroit freezer had been there for more than a year while their mother continued to live in the apartment with her two other kids, according to police.

Police said the bodies appeared to a male aged approximately 11 years old and a female who was approximately 14 years old. They were found inside a plastic bag and appeared to be 'frozen'.

The bodies were discovered while officers were......
carrying out an eviction at the Martin Luther King apartments on Tuesday morning.
Detroit Police Chief James Craig said the mother was taken into custody after an apartment resident informed officers she was staying with someone at a different home inside the complex, according to the Detroit News.

Craig said the mother, who was handcuffed when the was taken into custody, is a person of interest in the investigation.

Neighbors say she is Mitchelle Blair, 35, and that she goes by Angel, WXYZ Detroit reported.

Blair describes herself as 'Loyal to my babies' on her Facebook page

On January 30, the posted a photo with a message.

It read: 'There is no greater blessing than being called MOM.'

Before she was taken into custody, the mother reportedly said her son was raped and that the sexual assault had been carried out by his siblings.

Police have not confirmed that is the case and it is unclear if she was talking about the boy who was found in the freezer.

She filed a paternity suit in 1999 which resulted in a man being ordered to pay child support.

Blair filed another suit in 2007 against another man which had the same result. 

She had not been charged as of Tuesday evening.

Her brother Marlon Blair said: 'It's too early to even say what this could be, or to make any judgments.

'She didn't have any emotional problems from what I'm aware of. I don't know what to say about this.'

Assistant Chief Steve Dolunt said it appeared the bodies had been in the freezer for 'over a year' and that the mother had been living in the apartment 'with other children while the bodies were in the freezer'.

'This is a terrible situation,' he said.

According to Craig, Blair has two other children, aged 11 and 17, who are unharmed and currently in 'protective custody'.

No weapons were discovered after the apartment was searched and police do not yet have a motive.

Neighbor Shanetria Lanier, 21, said Blair home-schooled her children and 'that's why no schools were wondering where they were'.

There is no record of the children attending classes, according to a Detroit Public Schools official.

People did notice that two of her children seemed to disappear about a year ago.

Lanier said: 'When people asked her where her other two kids are, she said they were at their aunt's house.

'Or sometimes she'd tell people they stayed inside because they didn't like to be around people.'

Craig said the police are still 'trying to determine what happened'.

The cause of death won't be known until after autopsies are conducted.

Tori Childs, who also lives in the complex, told the Detroit News she often saw the children and sometimes gave them clothes or food.

She said they were 'the nicest kids' who were 'so respectable'.

'This is just wrong,' she said in tears.

Childs said she saw two bodies on the floor after police arrived at the home.

'It was a little girl and a little boy,' she said. 'The little girl had on a pink jacket.'

Shanetria Lanier, another neighbor in the complex, said her sister received a phone call around 6am on Tuesday from a woman who lives inside the apartment.

The woman asked to stay at Lanier's sister's home with her two children that day, according to Lanier, and was there when the bodies were found.

Police initially reported that they had a discovered a single body in the freezer. 

-DM

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