Catherine Hoggle is an alleged killer who has been charged with the murders of her two young children
According to police reports Catherine Hoggle two young children, Sarah and Jacob, were reported missing back in 2014 and the two children have never been found
Catherine Hoggle immediately became a suspect in the disappearance and assumed murders of the two and three year old children. However after she was initially charged with the double murder she was deemed incompetent to stand trial
Since then Catherine Hoggle has been in a mental health facility, she has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, however in late July 2025 she was released from the facility
Now prosecutors in the case have recharged Catherine Hoggle with two counts of murder in relation to the disappearance of Sarah and Jacob
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Catherine Hoggle, the mother of Sarah and Jacob Hoggle, has been reindicted for their murder.
The brother and sister were just two and three years old when they disappeared in Montgomery County in 2014. Their bodies were never found.
Catherine Hoggle was initially charged with their murders, but the charges were dropped when she was deemed not competent to stand trial. Her attorney told News4 in 2022 her condition was not likely to change.
She was living in a mental facility in Jessup, Maryland, but was discharged on July 23. She had been previously diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, according to her mother.
A grand jury returned the indictment Thursday, and she was arrested Friday in Kent County after the state found out she had been discharged from the Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center, according to the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office. News4 is still working to find out why she was released from the facility last month.
Montgomery County State Attorney John McCarthy told News4 last year that Catherine Hoggle could be recharged if she was ever released from the facility.
Her attorney shared a new statement with News4 Sunday. It said she is “still under the civil commitment from that time. We do not believe her detention is proper or appropriate legally. Nothing has changed since 2022.”
Sarah and Jacob’s father, Troy Turner, and his family released a statement Sunday saying they continue to seek justice for his children — a mission he’s had for more than 10 years now.
“My job as my children’s father is to believe in my kids, believe in myself and go find them — period. And that’s what we’re going to do,” he said.
Catherine Hoggle is facing two counts of first-degree murder. She is scheduled for a bond review hearing in court.
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Catherine Ashley Hoggle, 38, of Clarksburg, has been indicted by a Montgomery County Grand Jury on two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her children, Sarah and Jacob Hoggle, and was arrested in Kent County after being discharged from a state psychiatric hospital.
According to the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office, Hoggle was arrested on Friday, August 1, 2025, in Kent County, MD, after the State became aware that she was discharged from the Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center on July 23, 2025. Hoggle is scheduled for a bond review hearing at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow in Circuit Court. State’s Attorney John McCarthy and Deputy State’s Attorney Ryan Weschler are prosecuting this matter.
Background of the case, per the Maryland Court of Special Appeals: Catherine Hoggle is the mother of Sarah Hoggle and Jacob Hoggle. According to the State, the two children were last seen in the care of their mother on September 7, 2014. At that time, Sarah was five years old, and Jacob was three years old. Hoggle was arrested three days after the children disappeared. Officers interrogated her for several hours, but they did not learn the location of the children.
Within one week of the arrest, the State filed a series of charging documents against Hoggle in the District Court of Maryland for Montgomery County. First, the State charged her with two counts of neglect of a minor. Next, the State charged her with one count of obstruction of justice. Finally, the State charged her with two counts of abduction or unlawful detention of a child by a relative. An evaluator from the Health Department examined Hoggle, who had a history of schizophrenia. The evaluator concluded that Hoggle was incompetent to stand trial at that time.
On January 10, 2015, the district court found that Hoggle was incompetent to stand trial and ordered that she be committed at Clifton T. Perkins Hospital. As required by statute, the district court periodically reviewed the issue of Hoggle’s competency. On nine occasions from the date of commitment until September 2017, the district court found that Hoggle remained incompetent and that she continued to meet the criteria for commitment.
At a separate proceeding in March 2016, about 18 months after the initiation of the 3 misdemeanor case in the district court, a prosecutor informed the court that the State planned to charge Hoggle with the murders of her two children. The prosecutor said that the State had decided to delay the indictment so that the grand jury might be available, if needed, to investigate the disappearance of the two children. According to the prosecutor, once the State obtained an indictment, the State would no longer be able to use the grand jury as an investigative entity.
On September 14, 2017, the State dismissed all charges against Hoggle in district court by entering a nolle prosequi. On the same day, the State obtained an indictment charging her in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County with first-degree murder of Sarah Hoggle and first-degree murder of Jacob Hoggle.
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