Southern Sweep: Tennessee Twins Trial

"Suspect’s fiance not father of slain twins" October 26, 2011|Associated Press

GALLATIN, Tenn. - Preliminary DNA tests prove that the fiance of a Tennessee woman did not father the newborn twin boys she is accused of smothering, which is what she told police, a detective testified yesterday.

Lindsey Lowe, 25, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder. Sumner County General Sessions Judge James Hunter sent the case to the grand jury after hearing testimony.

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During the hearing, Lowe sobbed audibly as Hendersonville police Detective Steve Malach described how she had told him of the affair that occurred in December and early January.

He said Lowe first said the father was her fiance, Jonathan Brooks, but that she had not told him, or anybody, of the pregnancy.

“I asked if it was possible anybody else was the father, and she told me she had cheated on her fiance with another guy, Jeremy Smith,’’ Malach said.

Lowe later told Malach she had not told her fiance of the pregnancy so as not to disappoint him and because she didn’t want to add to the stress of a family member’s illness.

Malach said paternity test results showed it was more than 99.9 percent likely that Smith was the father of the boys.

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