Erickson was arraigned in Waltham District Court on 6/2/03 on 84 counts of animal cruelty and 26 counts for having hyperdermic needles found in her Watertown apartment. Erickson has a pre-trial hearing on 9/16/03 in Waltham District Court.

As more information is released through the news media, we have learned that Erickson's Beacon Hill apartment had plastic on the windows so the odor's didn't get out. There were some fragrance machines running and a lot of fans. Every area of the apartment was blocked off, so everything was encapsulated in the unit in an effort to hide the stench.

Erickson's Watertown, MA apartment was raided today (5/7/03). More dead cats have been found in this apartment. Watertown police obtained a search warrant, with some reports that neighbors had complained about a smell or seeing large numbers of cats in the windows and from the advice of teh Boston authorities.

The live cats have been taken to animal shelters in Boston and Pembroke.

Erickson appeared in a Boston housing court today for a hearing on the condeming of her Beacon Hill apartment. She acted as her own lawyer. The city says the condemnation of the apartment stands and Erickson was physically removed from the courtroom at the orders of the judge for her theatrics. She is further banned from renting any apartment in Boston. Erickson is currently living in Watertown with several cats. While she was in court, a neighbor found a cat left on Erickson's doorstep in a carrier and removed the cat before Erickson returned home. The animal cruelty charges are still pending and Erickson has stated she will appeal today's ruling.

City inspectors have been at Ericksons $1400 a month Beacon Hill apartment multiple times in the past 4 months over complaints of "foul odor". Inspectors responded to a call made to Boston police about a dog crying shortly before 8pm. They discovered more than 60 dead cats, wrapped in plastic bags and stored in freezers in the kitchen, bedroom and hallway at 103 Charles St.

5 live kittens and a 13 year old Great Dane, all severely malnourished, and having ringworm were removed.

Erickson states that 150 pounds of beef kidneys were stored in her freezer - not a bunch of dead cats. She further stated that 3 of her Persians cats, Georgy, Trumpy and M&M died in midwinter because of the cold conditions in her apartment. She wrapped their bodies first in plastic, then in paper, to perserve them for proper burial in the spring.

Erickson is a fired legal secretary, who had a similar problem with neighbors at an apartment in Cambridge. The landlord (Frank Nahigian) there finally paid her to leave. Her current neighbors had complained to landlord Gordon LeBlanc of Watertown, MA since she moved in - in September, 2002.

Erickson did not allow her clients to come to the apartment. She would go to them, Scott Fontana, a salon owner reported after he purchased a cat named Luckey from her for $600. Luckey died in April, 2003.

Darlene and June Feger sold Erickson a male and two females - all national grand champions last fall in NJ. They were shocked to hear of the carnage. They are also hoping to get those cats back from Erickson.

Erickson, who has filed so many lawsuits in area courts that she's been reprimanded by judges, filed yet another federal lawsuit against Mayor Thomas M. Menino, Police Commissioner Paul F. Evans and Attorney General Thomas Reilly. The Illinois transplant claims city and state officials violated her civil rights when they raided her aparment. She is seeking an injunction against the city to prevent whatever was seized from her freezers from being thawed. She wants the "evidence" returned.

This lawsuit is the eighth in the past 5 years. A federal judge has barred he from ever suing Harvard Univeristy again without approval from the court, according to court records.

In a March 11th ruling in one of the other lawsuits, US District Court Judge Patty Saris wrote, "Petitioner has been advised on several occasions" not to abuse the courts. Other court documents state Erickson professing to have experience with surgery on the cats.

Meanwhile ISD Commissioner Kevin Joyce is looking into whether the city of Boston can legally bar Erickson from renting other apartments in Boston.

Erickson call Boston's 24-hour hotline soon after the investigators raided her apartment. "She stated she was preserving her special breed of cats for DNA cloning in the future".

Erickson will be charged with animal cruelty. She did not attend the apartment condemnation hearing and has refused to appear in court stating she will not appear until a judge makes a ruling on her current lawsuit against the city of Boston.