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Police: Mom Killed Kids, Then Set Fire That Claimed Her Life

NEW YORK (July 29) -- A single mother apparently slit the throats of her three children, then sat with them and her toddler in their burning home until she died from smoke inhalation last week, according to police and autopsy results released Thursday. Police had said the case appeared to be a murder-suicide, but it...

Officials: Drug Traces Found in Mother, Son in NYC Fire

NEW YORK (July 26) - A single mother and her teenage son apparently ingested some type of drug before dying in a suspected murder-suicide and arson that claimed the lives of three other children in their New York City apartment, two law enforcement officials said Monday. Pills were found in the stomachs of Leisa Jones and...

Cops: Mother Apparently Wrote Note in Deadly Fire

NEW YORK (July 25) -- Police believe a mother who died in a suspected murder-suicide and arson in her New York City home penned a badly charred, fragmented note with the words "am sorry." New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said Sunday that the note's handwriting matched a diary also found in the Staten...

NYC Police: Charred Note Found at Fatal Fire Scene

NEW YORK (July 23) -- A badly charred note with the words "am sorry" was discovered Friday in the torched apartment where investigators suspect a teenager killed his mother and siblings before committing suicide, police said. New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said the note - with only fragments of words and...

Police Suspect Murder-Suicide in NYC House Fire

NEW YORK (July 22) -- The deaths of a mother and four children in a torched New York City apartment were being investigated Thursday as a possible murder-suicide committed by one of the children, a troubled teenager with a history of setting fires, police said. Two young girls whose badly burned bodies were found in a...