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SweetestOfPeas
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4 dead in mobile home, hanging infant still alive
so awful!!!!!
HUDSON OAKS, Texas (AP) -- A relative found the bodies of a 23-year-old woman and her four small daughters hanging in a closet in their mobile home Tuesday morning, all of them dead but an 8-month-old, who was taken to a hospital, the sheriff said.
Authorities didn't immediately release the identities of the victims in the Oak Hills mobile home park, about 25 miles west of Fort Worth.
The woman's sister, who lived nearby, had stopped at the home after the woman failed to show up for work, Parker County Sheriff Larry Fowler said. He said the sister rescued the infant when she realized the baby girl was still alive.
The other children, ages 5, 3 and 2, had all had been hanged with strips of clothing and sashes, Fowler said.
"It's terrible, terrible," he said.
The infant was taken to Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth and was in good condition, Fowler said.
Neighbors in the rural community of 1,600 were stunned. Fewer than five years earlier, another Hudson Oaks family was torn apart when Dee Etta Perez, 39, shot her three children, ages 4, 9 and 10, before killing herself.
Fowler said the hangings Tuesday also appeared to be murder-suicide, but the investigation was still ongoing.
The young mother and her girls were last seen alive Monday evening, he said. She was believed to be separated from her husband, who Fowler said has been notified of the deaths.
"I just got a big kick out of watching the kids play over there on her porch, and today it's sad, very sad," said neighbor Joyce Harris.
Texas has seen a disturbing number of child killings by mothers in recent years.
Andrea Yates drowned her five children in the family's Houston bathtub in 2001. In 2003, Deanna Laney beat her two young sons to death with stones in East Texas, and Lisa Ann Diaz drowned her daughters in a Plano bathtub. Dena Schlosser fatally severed her 10-month-old daughter's arms with a kitchen knife in 2004.
All four of those women were found innocent by reason of insanity. Yates initially was convicted of capital murder, but it was overturned on appeal.
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Re: 4 dead in mobile home, hanging infant still alive
I was just reading this story on AOL homepage...sooo sad.....
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Ambersmom
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Re: 4 dead in mobile home, hanging infant still alive
Ugghh, I can't even imagine
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Message edited 6/26/2009 11:42:31 AM.
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| Posted 5/29/07 4:49 PM |
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Michelle
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Re: 4 dead in mobile home, hanging infant still alive
OMG 
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MrsSchwags
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Re: 4 dead in mobile home, hanging infant still alive
that is so horrible. i really don't know what is going on down there in texas. I could never take a child's life, especially my own..no matter how "insane" I was.
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CaseyGirl
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Re: 4 dead in mobile home, hanging infant still alive
Makes me sick 
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| Posted 5/29/07 4:57 PM |
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MsSissy
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Re: 4 dead in mobile home, hanging infant still alive
OMG...this is heartbreaking
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sunflowerjesss
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Re: 4 dead in mobile home, hanging infant still alive
What a terrible story! 
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| Posted 5/29/07 4:58 PM |
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lvdolphins
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Re: 4 dead in mobile home, hanging infant still alive
 I have tears in my eyes! That is just horrible!
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| Posted 5/29/07 5:01 PM |
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Phyl
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Ophelia
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remember, when Gulliver traveled....
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Re: 4 dead in mobile home, hanging infant still alive
fatally severing a child's arms off...
that means she cut off her babies arms, and it bled to death. utter misery and pain.
insanity is too soft a punishment. drawn and quartered.
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MrsCJK
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Re: 4 dead in mobile home, hanging infant still alive
This story is so disgusting, I cant even believe people!
I am sorry but the insanity plea is BS to me, thats crap, these people should rot in jail for a lifetime or be shot themselves!!! 
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| Posted 5/30/07 12:39 PM |
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JennZ
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Re: 4 dead in mobile home, hanging infant still alive
Posted by MrsCJK
This story is so disgusting, I cant even believe people!
I am sorry but the insanity plea is BS to me, thats crap, these people should rot in jail for a lifetime or be shot themselves!!!
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| Posted 5/30/07 12:43 PM |
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ml110
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Re: 4 dead in mobile home, hanging infant still alive
 sometimes it just doesn't seem fair that peopel like this can have kids, but DH and i can't.....
if they cant' handle the children or don't want them, give them up for adoption... there are TONS of great people out there who would love to give them a good home....
Message edited 5/30/2007 12:45:41 PM.
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lulugrrl
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Re: 4 dead in mobile home, hanging infant still alive
This is just unfathomable
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Jesaroo
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Re: 4 dead in mobile home, hanging infant still alive
wish i didnt read this.
the subject line alone upset me
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Diane
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Re: 4 dead in mobile home, hanging infant still alive
makes me so sick
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nrthshgrl
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Marcie
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Re: 4 dead in mobile home, hanging infant still alive
My MIL was telling me about this last night
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| Posted 5/30/07 1:12 PM |
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lmnscc
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Re: 4 dead in mobile home, hanging infant still alive
Posted by MrsCJK
This story is so disgusting, I cant even believe people!
I am sorry but the insanity plea is BS to me, thats crap, these people should rot in jail for a lifetime or be shot themselves!!!
ITA. I don't understand how judges and lawyers let these people go. But I also don't believe that people get a clean slate once they find Jesus in prison after committing murder. Once you killed someone maliciously, then you are forever doomed in my book.
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IluvBo
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Re: 4 dead in mobile home, hanging infant still alive
How heartbreaking! Why didn't she just kill herself! Why did she have to kill the kids. I just don't get it. They were innocent. They didn't ask to be born damn it. Why couldn't she just kill herself and let them live?
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MsMBV
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NewlyMrs
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Re: 4 dead in mobile home, hanging infant still alive
OMG, that is horrible!
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nyteacher13
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Re: 4 dead in mobile home, hanging infant still alive
I'm absolutely SICK to my stomach.
And there are people out there who are dying to have a baby - I can't even put the words together to describe how disgusted I am.
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