Overview
- Janette MacAusland, 49, waived extradition in a Vermont hearing Monday and remains jailed there pending transport to Massachusetts to face two murder charges.
- Vermont police say she arrived at her aunt’s Bennington home Friday night with a neck wound and told relatives and officers she strangled her children and tried to kill herself, prompting a welfare check in Wellesley.
- Wellesley officers found 7-year-old Kai and 6-year-old Ella dead around 9:50 p.m. Friday, according to police; dispatch audio captured an officer noting “blood splatter” and the later cancellation of an ambulance.
- Prosecutors have impounded the police report until October, and the state medical examiner has not yet determined the cause and manner of death as investigators work to pin down the timeline.
- Court records describe a contentious divorce and a recent move for a court-appointed custody review, and the community has responded with school-based counseling and a Wednesday night vigil at a local church.