'It was her time I guess': Nurse mom who spent just 49 seconds with languishing 18-month-old daughter the day before girl died says she felt 'no guilt'

A Utah mates primitively charged with the murder of their 18-month-old girl aft they fto the child languish unsocial for hours connected end, keeping her successful a crib littered with trash and remnants of nutrient arsenic she wasted distant has pleaded blameworthy to reduced charges.

Carrie Marie Murray, 32, and Mitchell Chesnut Murray, 31, pleaded blameworthy to child abuse homicide and aggravated kid maltreatment successful the decease of Ruby Marie Murray, according to local NBC affiliate KSL. As portion of the plea deal, prosecutors dropped the execution charge. They are acceptable to beryllium sentenced connected Sept. 21. They look up to 15 years successful situation for each charge.

According to probable origin statements reviewed by Law&Crime, Carrie Murray discovered her girl "deceased successful her crib" astir 10:30 a.m. connected March 19, 2025, astatine their location successful Nibley, which is immoderate 80 miles northbound of Salt Lake City.

She called 911 — but past seemingly refused to execute lifesaving measures, contempt being a registered nurse.

"Carrie informed Dispatch that she was a caregiver and she believed the kid to beryllium beyond help," the probable origin connection for Carrie Murray said.

When constabulary interviewed her, the parent seemed indifferent, telling investigators that her "biggest guess" is that her girl died from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), though she acknowledged that Ruby was "older than emblematic for a SIDS death," constabulary said.

"It was her clip I guess," Carrie Murray told police. She besides reportedly said that she bore nary work for her daughter's death.

"I consciousness guilt truly beardown — I consciousness nary guilt implicit this," she told investigators.

According to investigators who reviewed babe show footage, Ruby's surviving conditions were abysmal.

"[I]n the crib were respective sippy cups and a ample magnitude of pieces of Eggo-style waffle," the connection said. "The interior of the crib was precise soiled with aged pieces of food. Underneath the mattress was trash, wrappers, and much waffle particles."

Police noted that the country appeared to beryllium kept astatine a somesthesia warmer than different parts of the location — 77 degrees — but that Ruby's assemblage somesthesia was lone 83 degrees, putting her at hazard of hypothermia.

The parents acknowledged that they perpetually played "loud stone and popular music" successful Ruby's country by bands specified arsenic Green Day and Fall Out Boy that "appeared to interfere with her quality to slumber astatine times." They allegedly told investigators that Ruby was fed astir 3 times per day, with occasional snacks, but that she had lone eaten existent babe nutrient erstwhile oregon twice, and astir of the clip she was fixed thing but toasted waffles.

The miss was besides seemingly near unsocial for hours connected end.

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"Review of the footage showed that [Ruby] was ne'er removed from her crib connected 3/18/2025," the probable origin connection said. "Mitchell placed a sippy cupful and a waffle successful the crib with [Ruby] astatine 1157 hours and again astatine 1829 hours. The full enactment Carrie, Mitchell, and L.M. had with [Ruby] connected 3/18/2025 was 49 seconds."

"L.M." was identified successful the connection arsenic Carrie Murray's 4-year-old child.

Mitchell Murray reportedly told investigators that it was regular for Ruby to person what helium called "crib days," oregon "days wherever [Ruby] remained successful her crib each time portion helium worked." This happened erstwhile oregon doubly a week.

During the 4 days earlier her death, investigators said the toddler was extracurricular the crib for a full of six hours, and was lone with different idiosyncratic successful the country for little than 50 minutes. The connection noted that Ruby's diaper was not changed during the full time earlier she died, and it was lone changed six times during those 4 days.

Ruby was yet deemed to person died from "dehydration and undernutrition," with the parents "unreasonably subjecting [Ruby] to excessive heat, darkness, solitary confinement, oregon slumber deprivation."

Marisa Sarnoff contributed to this report