Alaska mom who looked up 'ways to suffocate' online and killed 2 infants is sentenced

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (TCN) -- A 29-year-old mother will spend decades behind bars for killing her two infant daughters just two years apart.

The Alaska Department of Law announced that on Dec. 9, a judge sentenced Stephany Bilecki to 130 years with 85 years suspended after she pleaded guilty in August to two counts of second-degree murder.

According to the department of law, in 2015, Bilecki called her boyfriend and mother and informed them her 4-month-old daughter, Chyanne, had died. Shortly before her mother's arrival, the defendant called the Fairbanks Emergency Communications Center. Fire department and emergency medical services personnel responded and transported the child to a hospital. She was pronounced deceased on Sept. 15, 2015. The department of law said the infant was "otherwise healthy," and officials initially determined she died of SIDS.

Approximately two years later, on Nov. 20, 2017, Bilecki tried calling her deployed husband and her then in-laws because her 13-month-old daughter, Jasmine, was unresponsive. Shortly before her in-laws arrived, Bilecki called authorities.

According to police, the infant was transported to a hospital and later pronounced deceased on Nov. 24, 2017. While investigating Jasmine's death, police said detectives opened the 2015 incident.

Around an hour before reporting Jasmine being unresponsive, Bilecki reportedly searched "Ways to suffocate," "Best ways to suffocate," "Ways to kill human with no proof," "Can drowning show in an autopsy report," "16 steps to kill someone and not get caught," "How to commit the perfect murder," "Drowning and Forensics," and "Suffocating and Smothering."

An autopsy showed Jasmine died of complications of anoxia, which is a lack of oxygen to the brain. Chyanne's cause of death was undetermined, but she reportedly suffered injuries consistent with suffocation.

Fairbanks District Attorney Joe Dallaire said, "The conduct forming the basis of defendant Bilecki’s convictions shocks the conscience. Although we cannot pretend that anything will ever make up for the losses suffered by the fathers of these babies or their other family members, I do hope the convictions and the sentences imposed affords some measure of justice to the families of Jasmine and Chyanne and to the Fairbanks community at large."

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