TOLEDO, Ohio —
Three children killed in what police believe was a murder-suicide carried out by their grandmother and uncle died of carbon monoxide poisoning, a coroner ruled Wednesday in a finding that confirms what investigators already suspected.
Autopsies show that the children and the two adults all died from the fumes pumped into a car where their bodies were found, said Cynthia Beisser, Lucas County deputy coroner.
Notes left behind indicate 54-year-old Sandy Ford and her son Andy, 32, planned the murder-suicide and filled their garage with the exhaust from a pickup truck, police said. All five were found dead Monday in the backseat of the car.
Investigators and family friends say what happened appears to stem from a family disagreement between the children's mother and her mom, Sandy Ford, over where the children should live.
For the past three years, the children ages 10, 7, and 5, had lived with their grandmother. Their mother asked her to care for them after another son at home had behavior problems and was becoming disruptive, according to children services workers.
But within the past week, the children moved back into their parents' home, angering the grandmother who believed the youngsters would be better off with her, according to children welfare workers.
Police were called to intervene twice last week, but they said there were no signs the children were in danger.
On Monday morning, Sandy Ford picked up the children from school not long after their mother dropped them off and took them back to her home, police said.
Authorities were called to the home by the children's frantic grandfather after he discovered the letters and was unable to force open the garage door.
Firefighters using a sledgehammer broke down the garage door to find the bodies of 5-year-old Madalyn Hayes, 7-year-old Logan and 10-year-old Paige slumped inside the car, along with their grandmother and uncle. Two hoses attached to the exhaust of a pickup truck pumped gas fumes through the car's rear window.
Toxicology tests on the children won't be available for six to eight weeks, Beisser said.
A funeral for the children is set for Monday in Toledo with visitation taking place this weekend.
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My Three Cents;
Now that I've studied psychology for the last ten years, because of the ex-bleeping-scrushiating pain of losing my own flesh and blood (my children) to an abuser with political connections..
I have become a Personal Empowerment Coach, who must ask my readers these questions, in relation to this story.
(1) What if you can for just one moment.. let go of the anger with 'The System' for their role in these children's deaths (Via Custody Battles from Hell), including the school who allowed this nut-job to take the children out of school in the first place..
(2) What if this story isn't only about an insane woman (the grandmother), who would have rather kill her grandchildren than have them live with her son (the children's father), and her daughter in law (the children's mother), yes you read that right, their biological parents!
(3) What if the hint in paragraph 1, that the children's uncle took part in this murder suicide instead of helping the children...
(4) Along with the hint in paragraph 5, stating that this insane grandmother, raised at least one son who married a woman with whom he could not co-parent and deal with one of their own children who were acting out. Instead the other children were placed with their grandmother, who ended up killing them!
"For the past three years, the children ages 10, 7, and 5, had lived with their grandmother. Their mother asked her to care for them after another son at home had behavior problems and was becoming disruptive, according to children services workers.
Broken down into tiny bites... would show that mental health issues run in families, and perhaps mental health problems [insert labels such as Borderline, Bi-polar, Narcissistic, Anti-Social, Schizophrenia, Co-Dependant, + + here] are nothing more than a maladaptive way of dealing with a loss or trauma on a significant emotional level in child-hood- because the person or people who were your care-givers weren't healthy and or stable themselves.. yet these 'issues' can be worked through albeit with an exorbitant amount of work?
Who thinks, that if major problems in families were simply a maladaptive way of coping.. that the big pharma companies, and the mental health Field would then be out of 'business', and we might have a society of healthy functioning people living in it?
I DO!
Contact me if you agree and are willing or at least open to, facing your families demons.. which may be the reason your own live is so miserable.. sooner than later!
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