GUILTY MI - Daryne Gailey, 29, & baby daughter murdered, Oxford Twp, 22 Nov 2014

An infant found dead along with her father in an Oakland County home died of blunt force trauma to the head, while the father had a deep laceration across his neck from a box cutter...

The bodies of Daryne Gailey, 29, and his daughter were discovered in Gailey's home in Oxford Township in northern Oakland County after he failed to return the girl to her mother from weekend visitation. An injured 65-year-old woman was also found in the house with lacerations to her arm. She remained hospitalized and detectives have not been able to interview her yet...

Gailey, who was mentally disabled, was described by friends, neighbors and co-workers as a gentle person and loving father. He... filed for divorce about six months after marrying Amanda Hendrick in August 2013. With the divorce pending, his mother, Sylvia Majewska, had filed for the protection order, saying his wife was diagnosed bipolar and had grown increasingly violent, kicking him in the groin and throwing a cell phone at him, according to court records.

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“We find that it was a homicide,” said Kanu Virani, deputy chief medical examiner of the 29-year-old father. The cause of death was a incised wound to the neck, or slashed throat, said Virani. A boxcutter was recovered at the scene, along with other evidence, investigators said.

Gailey’s 7-month-old daughter, Charley Hendrick, was also found dead of blunt force trauma, and her death was also determined to be a homicide. Charley was found dead in her crib at the home on Nov. 23.

Sylvia Majewska, 65, Gailey’s mother and Charley’s grandmother, was the lone survivor in the incident.

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Investigators have yet to interview Majewska, the sole survivor, about what happened. She's retained an attorney since the incident...

McCabe confirmed Gailey's ex-wife, Amanda Hendrick who lives in Tuscola County's Caro, had full custody of Gailey's daughter. The court allowed Gailey overnight adult-supervised visits every other Friday. Gailey usually picked his mother up at her home in nearby Addison and they drove to Caro to retrieve the child and and returned her the following night. The infant never returned on Nov. 22, prompting Hendrick to contact police...

A 23-year-old neighbor said Gailey's mother and father visited their son often to help him around the house... The neighbor described Gailey as "a little slow," possibly with a learning disability, but "a great guy."

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He had lifelong cognitive learning disabilities and a seizure disorder, and his mother was appointed his guardian when he was a child. In January, she sought to have her son's recent marriage annulled, saying he did not have the mental capacity to marry.

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noZme said:

How sad!
His mom appears to be controlling & interfering. Is she the murderer? Why else would she have lawyered-up while still in the hospital?

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katydid23 said:

oh wow. How could she kill her son and hre tiny baby granddaughter??????? She must be so cold hearted. That is just horrendous. :cry:

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The baby's body was found by deputies "dressed and tucked away like it was going to sleep — very sad," he said.

Police found strong evidence that "there was premeditation and a plan" by Majewska to commit the murders, including a new car seat for the baby that had with it a receipt with Majewska's notations "indicating that she planned to return it, that it won't be needed anymore," Bouchard said.

Majewska was a highly manipulative mother to her cognitively impaired son, Bouchard added. "We certainly have information that she was an angry woman and a controlling woman," he said. Investigators had turned up a retail store's video filmed during a transaction with mother and son, he said. "She was very much in charge, berating him, in that encounter in the store," he said.

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Investigators searched Majewska's home and recovered multiple computer documents and handwritten notes that, according to Bouchard, "give us insight into what her reasons were" for allegedly committing the murders, "but (they're) certainly not reasons anyone can either accept or understand."

"I think you can draw from the contents that there was a premeditation and a plan that things were all going to come to an end shortly," he said. "I don't want to get into exact verbage, but it was pretty clear from the documents, the notes and other things that ultimately will come out, that there was a plan and the plan had a conclusion that wasn't good"...

When asked if Majewska had any history of mental illness, Bouchard said, "I can't specifically say we have medical records saying that."

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