Mother of 2 missing children held without bail after previous case dropped for mental health reasons
August 5, 2025
A Maryland woman with a long history of severe mental illness has been held without bail and ordered to receive psychiatric treatment behind bars after she was recently rearrested and charged with murder in the 2014 disappearance of her two children. The new indictment against Catherine Hoggle comes three years after an earlier murder case was dismissed because she had been repeatedly found incompetent to stand trial. Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy alleges that Hoggle confessed to strangling her children during a conversation with another woman attending a group-therapy session.