Overview

• Catherine Hoggle, 38, was reindicted on two counts of first-degree murder and arrested last Friday in Montgomery County.
• She was found incompetent to stand trial in 2017 and spent eight years in a state psychiatric facility before her release in July 2025.
• Her children Sarah, then 3, and Jacob, then 2, vanished in Maryland in September 2014 and have never been found.
• Hoggle gave investigators conflicting accounts, saying she left the children at a daycare or with a friend named “Erin.”
• Defense attorney David Felsen plans to challenge her detention and the indictment on the basis of her ongoing mental competency issues.