Overview
- The service, which begins Saturday at 2 p.m. at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Wellesley, will be livestreamed with a private burial to follow.
- Wellesley officers found the children on April 24 during a welfare check requested by Bennington, Vermont, police after concerns about the family.
- Prosecutors say their mother, Janette MacAusland, drove to Vermont and told a relative she had strangled the children before trying to take her own life.
- MacAusland, 49, was arrested in Vermont, extradited to Massachusetts, arraigned in Dedham District Court on May 6, pleaded not guilty, and is held without bail.
- State records estimate the time of death at about 9:49 p.m. on or about April 24, and court filings show a guardian ad litem was appointed days earlier in a custody dispute.