FESTUS, MO – A Missouri woman walked into a police station Tuesday and confessed to killing her two children, authorities said.
Jefferson County Sheriff Dave Marshak revealed at a news conference that the woman admitted to fatally shooting her 9-year-old daughter and drowning her 2-year-old son earlier that morning.
The girl’s body was discovered inside the mother’s car, which was parked outside the Festus police station where she surrendered. The boy’s body was found in a fountain at a resort near Festus, a suburb of St. Louis.
Authorities launched a search for a third child, who was later found safe. The mother, a resident of the Festus area, has been taken into custody, and the deaths are being investigated as homicides.
The identities of the mother and children have not been released, and officials have not yet provided a possible motive for the tragic events.