This weblog is is about an older case that has been within the media once more in latest months. It’s concerning the September 2014 disappearance and possible homicide of Sarah (3) and Jacob (2) Hoggle in Maryland. Their mom Catherine Hoggle is suspected of being the perpetrator and her case has been happening for over a decade, resulting from competency points.
We are going to begin with some background into the household.
Troy Turner is the daddy of each of the kids and Catherine Hoggle is their mom. They weren’t married. Sarah Hoggle was born on November 20, 2010, and Jacob Hoggle was born on July 3, 2012. The kids even have an older brother who we won’t title right here for privateness causes.
Catherine’s mom Lindsey Hoggle has a Medium.com account and he or she has written many items about her daughter and her grandchildren. Lindsey says that Catherine is the eldest of 4 siblings and that she had struggled with psychological well being points since center faculty. Lindsey had separated from Catherine’s father Randy Hoggle.
Based on media stories, Catherine was brilliant, however started to battle with faculty work in center faculty. She was recognized with a studying incapacity – issues with “government capabilities” similar to planning and group. Then got here medical doctors’ issues about temper and bipolar dysfunction.
After highschool, Catherine enrolled at a group faculty and, by the autumn of 2007, had began ready tables on the Greene Turtle, a Germantown, Md., sports activities bar, the place she fell in love with a bouncer named Troy Turner. “It was a like a fairy story,” she’d later say.
Within the fall of 2008, Catherine gave delivery to their first little one, a son, and the household started a life in Harrisonburg, Va., with Troy beginning a profession promoting timeshares. To provide the younger couple a break, Lindsey deliberate to look at the infant for 2 days. As Lindsey was leaving together with her grandson, Catherine stuffed index playing cards into her mother’s again pocket: The way to combine the method, when to feed him, a reminder to maintain pillows out of the crib.
Troy has stated that round this time, Catherine began to develop into paranoid that somebody was making an attempt to interrupt up their household. He thought she might have been affected by postpartum melancholy. Catherine’s habits on this regard did enhance, so Troy didn’t fear additional at this level.
Because the years went on although, Catherine’s psychological well being worsened. Her household have stated that she appeared to hunt management by withholding primary info.
“Which 7-Eleven did you go to?” Troy requested in the future. “The one in Germantown,” Catherine answered, figuring out there have been a number of within the space. “Which one?” “I already instructed you.”
In 2013, Catherine turned satisfied that Troy’s sister was breaking into their condominium. Catherine filed courtroom papers claiming his sister had stolen a $12.09 pack of toddler undershirts and a $30 plastic toy with a lion picture. “Matches our different yellow lion walker from the opposite youngsters,” Catherine wrote. “Besides the lacking one didn’t have a scratch on the attention from the place the paint had worn from years of damage and tear and love.”
Catherine additionally alleged that Troy’s sister was following her. She tried to get a restraining order. “We go to the grocery retailer, she reveals up there. We begin going to a unique grocery retailer, she begins displaying up there,” Catherine instructed Montgomery County Choose Barry Hamilton. “I’m going to take my youngsters to the pediatrician, she reveals up there. I’m going to my mother’s home, she reveals up there.”
The choose declined Catherine’s request for the restraining order.
Troy has stated that he inspired Catherine to get skilled assist and to take her medicine. He has stated that he was unsure that she did both of these. Someday once they had been of their SUV, Catherine started whispering and looking out round as if their car had been bugged. Troy pulled over and instructed her that no one might hear them. “Nobody’s listening to us. We’re boring,” he stated.
He tried to calm her down by utilizing slight humor, however he was changing into more and more fearful about his associate.
On August 13, 2013, when Jacob was round 13 months outdated, Catherine was admitted to a psychiatric hospital. She was nonetheless nursing the infant, so she pumped milk and despatched it to her mom, who would then feed Jacob.
On Christmas Eve in 2013, Catherine was admitted to the Shephard Pratt Psychiatric Hospital in Maryland. Catherine didn’t conform to being handled so was admitted involuntarily. Based on Lindsey, Catherine was handcuffed in entrance of her youngsters earlier than being escorted to the power.
Troy has spoken about what he instructed the kids relating to their mom’s well being. He had as soon as gone to the hospital to be handled for his bronchial asthma and he stated “Do you bear in mind when Daddy needed to keep within the hospital for 2 days? That’s what Mommy is doing. She simply has to remain a bit of longer.”
After the Christmas Eve incident, Catherine transitioned from the psychiatric hospital, to a day hospital, to a residential facility, to an outpatient program. This came about over the interval of 9 months, to September 2014 (simply previous to the kids’ s disappearance).
Throughout this era, Catherine was positioned on a wide range of totally different drugs and was recognized with a number of circumstances – Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Dysfunction and different critical psychological diseases.
Catherine suffered many uncomfortable side effects from the medicine adjustments together with drooling, slurred speech, hand tremors, GI points and drowsiness. Lindsey has stated that in lots of circumstances, these uncomfortable side effects had been worse than Catherine’s precise psychological sickness.
A quote from Lindsey’s Medium article:
After so many makes an attempt, I dubbed these horrid psychotropic meds — “open coronary heart surgical procedure with a sequence noticed.”
By Summer season 2014, Catherine was at house and appeared to be doing a lot better. Docs prompt that one other grownup be current when Catherine was with the kids – apparently not resulting from any hurt threat, however as a result of sedative results of her drugs. Lindsey has stated that she noticed this impact a number of occasions and expressed concern about Catherine with the ability to react in an emergency similar to a hearth.
Randy has stated that after her remedy, Catherine appeared to return to being the attentive dad or mum that she had beforehand been. She would learn books to the youngsters and ask them why they thought the story was humorous or what it actually meant. Randy did additionally say although that he did discover Catherine’s fatigue and disconnection. Generally she would open a e-book and stare at it, leaving the kids to show the pages and check out to determine the story for themselves.
Troy has stated that at that time, he didn’t imagine Catherine would deliberately damage the kids. He knew although that her psychological sickness could possibly be unpredictable and he needed to keep away from leaving her alongside for the toddlers. He together with relations – Lindsey, Randy, Troy’s mom, his sister, Catherine’s siblings, Troy’s buddies and a babysitter – all labored collectively to make sure that one other grownup was round to assist Catherine with the kids.
The care of the kids typically came about at two places – Troy and Catherine’s condominium, and Lindsey’s house.
As Lindsey was one of many major caregivers, she has spoken concerning the days main as much as the disappearance of the kids. She has stated that she made plans for a university good friend to go to for the weekend of September 5-7 (Friday to Sunday) 2014. She instructed Catherine (and presumably Troy) that she could be unable to assist with the kids for that time period and provided to assist coordinate various carers for them.
Lindsey picked up her good friend Karen on the Friday and so they hung out collectively. Lindsey texted Catherine on Saturday and stated that she needed to take Karen to the oldest grandchild’s soccer sport the next day. She responded negatively, saying “Isn’t it early to be waking up on a Sunday. Wouldn’t you fairly sleep in and go to church and present her off there?’
On Sunday September 7, Lindsey texted her ex-husband Randy to ask concerning the Hoggle youngsters.
At 2:26 PM, I textual content Catherine’s dad to ask “The place are infants at present?
At 3:03 PM, he texts again: “At your home”
At 3:04 PM, I textual content again: “With whom?”, “I wasn’t conscious of these plans. I get crabs tonight.” then “There’s different meals for infants.”
Lindsey and her good friend Karen headed again to her house to assist look after the kids. They arrived again at 6pm. When Lindsey walked in, Catherine was not there and Lindsey stated there was an odd feeling within the house. Randy and Lindsey had a dialog and Lindsey quickly found that Catherine had taken his automobile to get pizza, and he or she had taken Jacob together with her. This was in opposition to the care protocols that had been put in place together with her household.
Randy stated that at about 4pm, Catherine instructed her father she had a coupon for a pizza and requested to borrow his automobile to select it up. Jacob was clinging to her. “Let me simply take him,” Catherine stated.
The household went driving and in search of Catherine after she didn’t return. She arrived again on the house at 7.20pm, with out Jacob. When she was requested the place the kid was, Catherine stated he was at a sleepover at a good friend’s home. She additionally stated that she had taken fairly some time to return to the house as she had problem getting a pizza Lindsey has stated that she expressed her unhappiness on the state of affairs as Catherine was not meant to be driving and that she believed 2-year-old Jacob was too younger for an in a single day sleepover.
Throughout all of this commotion, Karen (the good friend) had bought a princess gown for Sarah. Sarah tried it on and Lindsey took a photograph of her. Catherine requested to see the telephone and he or she instantly deleted the photograph.
By 8.30pm, Lindsey was changing into more and more unsettled with the night’s occasions. Randy was requested to take Catherine, Sarah and the oldest grandchild again to their condominium. He was additionally requested to select up Jacob from his sleepover. He did drop the others to the condominium, but it surely doesn’t appear from all stories that Jacob returned house that night time.
These are some quotes from media articles that verify that Jacob was not seen that night time:
Troy arrived from work about midnight. He seen that Jacob wasn’t in his toddler mattress in the master suite. That wasn’t uncommon. The little boy typically received up and crawled into mattress with a sibling. Troy went to sleep.
“Nobody calls me when she comes again with out my little one,” Troy stated. “Had I acquired that decision, then Sarah would nonetheless be with us, as a result of the second I received that decision, I might have referred to as the police.”
As a substitute, he stated he received house on the later facet and determined to not wake the youngsters with a superb night time kiss.
“I say this with nice remorse,” he says, “it’s the one which I didn’t go in, once I received again later, to kiss my youngsters and you realize, kneel by the mattress.”
“I used to be drained and maybe it was egocentric,” he added. “I stated, if I wake them up, then I’m up too, so I went to sleep.”
Randy stayed the night time on the condominium and left early the following morning. Troy’s oldest son woke him up and was desirous to get to highschool. That is when Troy realised that Catherine, Sarah and Jacob weren’t within the house.
Troy received the oldest son prepared for varsity and put him on the varsity bus, making an attempt to not alarm him. He referred to as Lindsey at 8.03am and he requested her the place all people was. Lindsey instructed him to name 911.
He then referred to as 911. He instructed the operator that Catherine and the 2 youngsters had been lacking, together with the household’s car. Whereas he was on the telephone, Catherine drove as much as their condominium. Troy instructed the 911 operator to attend whereas he spoke to her.
“I received up early so you can sleep in,” she stated. “I took Sarah and Jacob to a day care that’s having a trial program.” She instructed Troy the day care was in Germantown and that he would possibly wish to take a tour once they picked up the kids.
Troy was upset that she had taken the toddlers with out telling him, however her story rang true. Troy went again to the 911 operator and stated that the incident had been a false alarm.
Troy then drove Catherine to her remedy program. Lindsey referred to as Catherine at 1.40pm to investigate concerning the youngsters. Catherine instructed her that she couldn’t discuss as a result of it was her ‘final day at group remedy.’ Catherine would later deny saying this, however Lindsey had written it down in a journal that she saved. Troy picked her up at 2pm and stated that he needed to go together with her to select up the kids. Catherine instructed Troy that she couldn’t bear in mind the title of the day-care centre, however that she might direct him the way to get there.
As they drove, Catherine turned more and more evasive. Lindsey was additionally calling and texting her daughter, making an attempt to get info. Catherine didn’t disclose something to her both.
Lindsey requested to select up the oldest little one from the bus, however Troy and Catherine had been nearer in order that they received him. Lindsey requested Troy to drag over and he or she drove to fulfill them in Rockville, Maryland. Lindsey went to their car and eliminated the kid as she was involved for his security. This made Catherine livid. She received into Lindsey’s automobile and sat subsequent to her son within the again seat. Catherine instructed Lindsey that she was going together with her. Lindsey stated that was fantastic, however they had been taking the kid to her house till they might find Sarah and Jacob.
Catherine received out of the automobile and stated she was going to get her telephone. At this level, Lindsey drove away with the kid within the automobile. Catherine started calling and texting on each her telephone and Troy’s telephone, requesting that Lindsey return the kid. She alleged that Lindsey was kidnapping him. Lindsey stated that as quickly as Catherine might produce Sarah and Jacob, she would return the oldest little one.
By this level, Troy was demanding that Catherine inform him the place the kids had been. “The place are my youngsters?” he demanded. “The place are my youngsters?”
Troy instructed Catherine that they had been going to the police. Catherine requested that they cease first at a Chick Fil A in order that she might get a soda as she wanted to take her medicine. Some stories say that she wanted to take caffeine together with her medicine, so Troy allowed her to cease. The police station was apparently proper subsequent to the restaurant. When the automobile stopped, Catherine took off.
Troy texted Lindsey and stated ‘she’s gone.’ They each went to the police station to clarify the state of affairs.
The seek for Catherine then went on for 4 days.
That is a part of the press launch issued on the time by the Montgomery PD:
At roughly 11:00 a.m. on September 8, Troy dropped Catherine off at a day by day medical appointment. At roughly 2:00 p.m., Troy picked up Catherine from her appointment and expressed to her that he needed to select up Sarah and Jacob. Catherine was not forthcoming with details about the kids’s whereabouts so Troy determined that they might go to the fifth District police station to ask for help. Earlier than going to the police station, Troy and Catherine stopped at a restaurant close to the Germantown Transit Heart (situated at 19945 Plane Drive). Unbeknownst to Troy, Catherine left the restaurant and he then contacted police. A K9 bloodhound monitor indicated that Catherine had exited the restaurant and walked to the Germantown Transit Heart.
Catherine Hoggle is described as a white feminine, 5’06” tall, 160 kilos, with brown eyes and shoulder size black hair. She was final seen sporting blue denims and a black tank prime. Sarah is described as a biracial feminine, 3’6? tall, 40 kilos, with brown eyes and medium size brown hair. Jacob Hoggle is described as a biracial male, 3’0” tall, weighs 25 kilos, with brown eyes and a curly, blond afro.
Investigators imagine that it’s potential {that a} good friend or somebody recognized to Catherine could also be watching the kids and never understand that relations and police have no idea the kids’s whereabouts.
Anybody with details about the whereabouts of Catherine and/or her youngsters is requested to instantly name 9-1-1.
Lindsey has stated that whereas they had been being questioned by police, Troy instructed them that Catherine had been recognized with Paranoid Schizophrenia. Lindsey instructed them that she believed Catherine had truly been recognized with Schizoaffective Dysfunction.
On September 11, 2014, Randy was requested by authorities to make a public plea for her to return with the kids. He was stated to be the closest to her, which is why he made the plea.
Based on MissingKids.org, Catherine was discovered 4 days later, wandering the streets of Germantown, Maryland.
Police questioned her for hours. They then introduced Troy into the identical room.
“What are you doing right here?” Catherine requested when he walked in. She appeared relaxed. Nothing just like the yr earlier than, when Catherine thought the automobile was bugged or somebody was breaking into their condominium.
“I’m right here, hopefully, to seek out out the place my youngsters are, and I’m right here to see you, too,” Troy remembers saying.
Troy requested Catherine the identical questions that the detectives had requested – the place are the kids? Catherine talked about that she had left them with a girl named Erin, however wouldn’t give any additional info.
On September 10, 2014, CCTV of Catherine on the Chick Fil A was found and authorities discovered extra about her actions.
This information about Catherine’s whereabouts is from Lindsey’s Medium article:
Further particulars had been that she had walked to a restaurant subsequent to Chick-Fil-A, borrowed the host’s mobile phone and referred to as a childhood good friend who lived within the space. She had then been caught on digital camera in a constructing throughout from Chick-Fil-A, simply moments after she disappeared after which at 4:30 AM. She additionally checked voice mail from this location (with out her mobile phone) 4 occasions that night.
Catherine was taken to a psychiatric hospital the place she was evaluated to find out if she might take part in courtroom proceedings. There’s an article from the Moultrie Observer in November 2014 that outlines how the household begged her for info:
“I’m asking you as a mom,” Lindsey implored her daughter earlier this month. “Inform us the place the kids are.”
“They’re fantastic, Dad,” Catherine just lately instructed Randy. “I promise you they’re alive.” He requested her to be particular. “I can’t discuss that the place I’m,” she stated.
That very same month, Catherine instructed authorities that she needed to steer police to the kids. Troy and Lindsey went to courtroom on that day.
Catherine was introduced in, arms cuffed behind her again, a clean expression on her face. Lindsey tried to make eye contact, however Catherine solely regarded down. State’s Legal professional John McCarthy requested the choose to let Catherine depart for a number of hours with the police. However her legal professional, David Felsen, stated Catherine had simply instructed him that she didn’t wish to discuss to the police or go anyplace with them. Choose Eugene Wolfe denied the request. Because the listening to ended, Lindsey walked towards Catherine. She needed to inform her one thing: You might be my daughter, and I really like you. A bailiff stepped between them. But it surely didn’t matter. Catherine had turned away and was strolling out.
The seek for Sarah and Jacob was carried out utilizing helicopters, canines and educated grid searchers.
Lindsey checked out telephone and expertise information and found that at 2pm on the day that the kids had been found to be lacking, a name from CCHR got here into her home. She googled and located that stands for ‘Residents Fee on Human Rights” — an spinoff group of Scientology.
Lindsey stated they instructed regulation enforcement about this name however might by no means hyperlink it to the disappearance of the kids.
In 2014, Catherine was charged with three misdemeanors: parental abduction, neglect and hindering or obstructing an investigation.
She was deemed incompetent to face up to trial and had been present process remedy at Clifton T. Perkins Hospital, the state psychiatric hospital. Prosecutors stated they believed that Catherine was faking her psychological sickness to keep away from trial.
In September 2017, Catherine was indicted in two courts of homicide.
The homicide prices might have been prompted by a authorized deadline. Catherine’s earlier misdemeanor prices all carry three-year limits on how lengthy a defendant will be thought-about mentally unfit for trial.
After these prices had been laid, Troy spoke to the media and stated that he believed Catherine had murdered the kids.
“Catherine Hoggle Murdered my youngsters and I hope Sarah and Jacob get the justice they deserve,” he stated on the time. “I’ve held out hope that one thing else might have occurred as I believe that any dad or mum below these circumstances would but it surely has at all times been a faint hope and I do know now with the passage of time that Catherine killed my infants.”
He additionally spoke about what he had instructed his oldest little one relating to the state of affairs.
“I instructed him, ‘They could by no means come house, you perceive that?’ ” Troy stated. “I haven’t outright stated they died, however he’s come to me and stated, ‘Daddy, I do know there’s a superb likelihood they’re with God.’ I stated, ‘Sure, there’s.’ He stated, ‘Even when they’re useless, they’re okay.’ And he hugged me.”
“There’s occasions once I really feel like I’ve to remind him, ‘I’m daddy,’ I’ve to be sturdy for him,” Troy stated. “I let him know that he doesn’t must be sturdy for me.”
“My job is to seek out my youngsters,” Troy stated, “and produce them house.”
Lindsey has stated that she spoke on the telephone to Catherine day by day following the disappearance of the kids. Catherine was allowed to make use of the telephone for 20 minutes, each 2 hours.)
She by no means ONCE gave even a slight bit of data, nor slipped up and disclosed any little bit of proof concerning the youngsters being useless. It’s a paradox of kinds that even with psychological sickness, she might maintain a secret for therefore lengthy.
After Sarah was indicted on the homicide prices, a choose dominated she was incompetent to face trial and imposed persevering with court-ordered remedy. Beneath state regulation, authorities had 5 years to revive her competency earlier than the fees have to be dismissed.
In 2022, a Montgomery County choose dropped the fees in opposition to her, citing the five-year time restrict. Catherine was ordered to stay involuntarily dedicated for psychiatric remedy as a result of she was nonetheless thought-about a hazard to herself or others.
Montgomery County State’s Legal professional John McCarthy stated then that if she’s deemed not a risk and launched, he was ready to cost her once more with homicide.
Catherine was voluntarily dedicated at Clifton T Perkins Hospital.
The Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Heart (CTPHC) is a 289-bed safe psychiatric hospital in Jessup, Maryland. It’s the forensic hospital offering forensic psychiatric behavioral well being care, with areas providing most, medium, and minimal safety.
Based on Lindsey, Catherine assumed a civil dedication which allowed her to obtain remedy exterior of her medicine regiment. Remedy for Perkins sufferers with legal prices just isn’t allowed.
In 2024, Troy spoke to the media on the ten-year anniversary of the kids’s disappearances:
“I say this, not negating the assist that we’ve had or the work that individuals have put into it,” he stated. “We understand that, we recognize that, but it surely simply appears like nobody helps us. It appears like nobody who is able to assistance is keen to assist, and it’s simply irritating.”
“If I discover my youngsters within the woods someplace buried, that’s not closure,” he stated. “My youngsters aren’t right here. That gap simply will get larger. There’s no joyful ending right here, it doesn’t matter what occurred, it doesn’t matter what you wish to imagine.”
“Ultimately, actuality is, what I’ll most likely discover is what’s sadly left of them, their our bodies,” Troy stated. “It’s a horrible factor to know. However there’s individuals who even ask, ‘Wouldn’t it’s higher for those who by no means discovered them? A minimum of you possibly can type of grasp on to hope.’ No, as a result of it’s not about me. It’s about them and so they deserve higher than this.”
“For Catherine, if I had something to say to her, it will simply be: ‘Simply inform the reality,’ as a result of that’s the entire thing … you’ve somebody who has the important thing to all this, who is aware of the solutions, and he or she simply received’t say it,” Troy stated.
“I’ve by no means, ever denied that Catherine is mentally unwell,” he stated. “In truth, I’ve stated the other. I attempted to get her assist. However whenever you take a look at the system, it’s not doing anybody justice, together with Catherine Hoggle at this level.”
In June 2025, Catherine was discharged from Perkins to a gaggle house on Maryland’s Jap Shore.
On 1 August 2025, Catherine was re-charged with two courts of homicide. She was held with out bail for 96 days on the Montgomery County Correctional Facility, earlier than she was transferred again to Perkins on November 5, 2025.
A competency listening to was held for Catherine on December 8 and 9, 2025. The purpose of this listening to was to find out if she was/is:
1 – Competent to face trial
2 – Harmful to herself or others
3 – Restorable
In the course of the listening to, it was revealed that Catherine was allowed to have an iPad and that she had been speaking with Troy’s new associate, a girl named Stephanie.
This information about that’s from NBC Washington:
A number of folks stated on the stand that it’s a really odd relationship, since Hoggle is dealing with prices of killing two of her and Turner’s youngsters.
A number of folks stated Hoggle realizes it’s an odd relationship, however either side are getting one thing out of the connection. News4 has not discovered Stephanie’s final title, however in accordance with testimony, there are hopes that maybe Stephanie ultimately will be taught from Hoggle what has occurred to the kids.
Fox 5 DC reported this info after the listening to:
Prosecutors say they’ve drawings that had been discovered with Catherine Hoggle when she was first arrested, days after she went into hiding after her youngsters went lacking. One of many drawings reveals stick figures and a trash can.
Catherine can also be reported to have instructed an individual she was in a counseling session with round that point that she had strangled her youngsters.
On December 10, 2025, Catherine was deemed competent to face trial for the murders of her youngsters. A choose tentatively scheduled a listening to for Dec. 23, as attorneys and the choose decide when trial dates can be scheduled.
Fox 5 have reported that they count on the trial to happen in 2026.
SOURCE LIST
https://www2.montgomerycountymd.gov/mcgportalapps/Press_Detail_Pol.aspx?Item_ID=29432
https://folks.com/crime/troy-turner-speaks-missing-kids-sarah-jacob-hoggle
