Overview
- The service at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, held Saturday at 2 p.m., was livestreamed and followed by a private burial, and the family asked for donations to the Schofield Elementary PTO.
- Their mother, Janette MacAusland, faces two murder charges, has pleaded not guilty, and is held without bail at the Western Massachusetts Regional Women’s Correctional Center.
- Wellesley officers found the children on April 24 after Bennington, Vermont, police requested a welfare check, and investigators say she later told an aunt she strangled them and tried to take her own life.
- She was arrested in Vermont, extradited to Massachusetts, and arraigned in Dedham District Court on May 6.
- State records list an estimated time of death around 9:49 p.m. on or about April 24, and the official cause and manner remain under review.