Montana woman accused of killing her 2 children appears in court

MISSOULA, Mont. — A parent is facing execution charges for the deaths of her 2 young children appeared successful a Missoula courtroom connected Monday afternoon.

Leannah Gardipe, 34, is accused of sidesplitting them with a weapon astatine their Missoula location Friday morning.

She is expected to acquisition a intelligence valuation earlier her adjacent hearing, acceptable for Dec. 6.

Judge Alex Beal ordered Gardipe to beryllium held connected a $10 cardinal bond.

“I bash not cognize precisely what oregon wherefore what happened present did, but I deliberation that you are the top hazard to the assemblage and additionally to yourself," Judge Alex Beal said. "There is nary magnitude of bail that you could station wherever you could beryllium safely released from jail, truthful my occupation is to acceptable an magnitude that you person nary imaginable anticipation of posting.

He added that helium acceptable her enslaved astatine $10 cardinal due to the fact that helium assumed that "this is simply a fig you person nary imaginable quality to make."

Missoula County Sheriff deputies responded to a location connected Patty Ann Drive Friday conscionable aft 8 a.m. for a study of a homicide.

In charging documents, Gardipe's parent called 911 to study that her girl had called her and that Gardipe said she "saved her babies."

She asked the suspect if that meant she had killed her children and the suspect began crying.

A fewer minutes later, Gardipe called 911 and said she "want(ed) to study a murder.

Gardipe told 911 that the lawsuit happened that greeting and that it occurred with a knife.

The suspect asked to nonstop medical. In charging documents, Gardipe told 911 that "I was expected to dice today."

Sheriff deputies recovered the children successful their beds with weapon wounds and antiaircraft marks connected their hands.

Law enforcement executed hunt warrants connected the location wherever they recovered a enactment astatine the threshold of the chamber wherever the children were recovered that read," [i]t was the lone mode that we each wouldn't burn, present I'm the lone 1 of america that will." Deputies recovered the weapon underneath the bed.

Gardipe is presently being held successful the Missoula County Detention Facility.

Melissa Rafferty astatine KPAX archetypal reported this story.