She sent them to heaven.

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10. It's really not at all clear to me what happened here. There are at least two prior incidents

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that, in light of these events, may be read as murder attempts: the child left locked in the 112F car, and the two children run over by the van. There is an indication of mens rea: after submerging the children under water until they stopped struggling, the woman changed into dry clothes before reporting that the children might have drowned. Her explanation has sinced varied: she later said that she thought she's be a better mother to the oldest if the two younger were gone and that the two younger would be in heaven; still later she said that crazy voices made her do it

She might be non compos mentis but there are other possibilities:

Wouldn't it be a fuckin tragedy if this brat baked to death in a hot car? Crap. That didn't work. Well, wouldn't it be a fuckin tragedy if somebody accidentally ran over these two brats? Crap. That didn't work either. Well, wouldn't it just be the biggest fuckin tragedy if these two fuckin brats accidentally drowned in the fuckin bathtub? Now I change into dry clothes and call 911. Crap. This isn't working either. I'll tell them I wanted to be a better mother to the oldest. Is it working now? I'll tell them I think the boys are in heaven. Crap. That didn't work. I'll tell them the crazy voices made me do it