A 37-year-old Missouri mother and her three daughters were found dead at a rural campground in a suspected triple-murder suicide.
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The body of Christine Adewunmi was found along a remote Missouri gravel lane on Saturday afternoon, along with the corpses of her three daughters, Lauren, 8, Samantha, 6, and Kate, 3.
According to the Associated Press, all four had sustained one gunshot wound each and it is believed that Adewunmi shot her children before turning the gun on herself. A handgun was found close to the bodies.
The bodies were found by a guest at the Blue Springs Ranch campground, in Bourbon, about 80 miles southwest of St Louis.
Crawford County Sheriff Randy Martin said the four victims were not guests, although the mother’s vehicle was found in the vicinity.
Martin was asked if he thought Adewunmi shot her three children and then herself, he said:
“We don’t know for sure, but it kind of appears it could be that way. But again the investigation is still kind of early.”
Adewunmi’s husband and father of the three girls, who all went to Oak Brook Elementary in the Parkway School District, had reported the four missing on Friday.
He told St Louis County Police Department that his wife and their daughters were gone when he returned home from work.
What would drive a mother to kill her own children? Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of the victims.
