SUDDEN VALLEY, WASHINGTON: A Whatcom County woman reportedly killed her twin daughters aged 7 and then took her own life in a double murder-suicide, as per the Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office.
Authorities responded to a residence in Whatcom County on Saturday afternoon, (October 24), after a man called to say that he discovered his landlord and her two young daughters dead inside a bedroom, KOMO reports. The authorities were able to identify the dead woman as Dr Michele Boudreau Deegan and the children as her daughters.
As per the report, investigators believe that Deegan, 55, a therapist and psychologist, had shot the two girls in their beds and had then turned the gun on herself. The authorities believe that a custody dispute had been the primary reason behind the murder-suicide.
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