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Woman in Custody After Five Children Found Dead in Houston Home

Aired June 20, 2001 - 13:26   ET

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DONNA KELLEY, CNN ANCHOR: Once again updating you on some new information we're getting on this story out of Houston, Texas where a woman is in custody and five children have been found dead in a Houston home. Associated Press is reporting that police came to the house after a getting telephone call apparently from the woman, and she came to door and described by police as being -- as acting disturbed and breathing heavily. And she told the police that she was responsible for the deaths in her words the quote to police officer was, "I killed my children."

Five children from the ages of six months to seven years old, four boys, one girl. She led them to the bedroom, where there were four bodies, and then led him -- this officer to the bathroom, where there was one body in the tub. Houston police believe that she is responsible, and they do have this woman, believed to be the mother, in custody.

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