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From today’s Philadelphia Daily News:
Police said the woman, identified by neighbors and in property records as Stacey Newkirk, smothered one of her 18-month-old twins and drowned the other in what sources say may have been a jealous rage over an affair she believed her husband was having with a family member. The woman also attempted to poison her 4-year-old daughter and then tried to kill herself, police said.
Her husband, the children’s father, called police when he arrived home to find his wife distraught and the bodies of the twins — identified Friday morning as Adam and Eve Smalls –limp and lifeless on the bed in the front bedroom.
A note next to each child read, “This is why I killed your kids,” and detailed her allegations of the husband’s affair, sources said.
Tragic. Senseless. Horrific.