Newly released police dispatch audio has captured the horrifying moment officers discovered the bodies of two young children allegedly killed by their own mother in their Massachusetts home, after she turned up 140 miles away in Vermont with a self-inflicted wound to her throat and a chilling confession.
“There’s blood spatter everywhere,” an officer can be heard saying on the recording as he moved through the Wellesley home, having found a rear door unsecured during a welfare check. The words were spoken in the moments before officers realised there was nothing they could do for seven-year-old Ella and six-year-old Kai MacAusland.
The sequence of events that led to that discovery began when Janette MacAusland, 49, a licensed acupuncturist, arrived at a family member’s home in Vermont with a deep slash across her throat. She reportedly delivered a message that left those present in no doubt about what had happened back in Wellesley: “I strangled them and then I tried to kill myself.”
Wellesley police were immediately alerted and rushed to the family home, where they found the children’s bodies. The case has sent shockwaves through the quiet, affluent Boston suburb, according to the New York Post, which first reported on the dispatch audio.
MacAusland is accused of killing her two children during what prosecutors have described as a bitter custody dispute. According to the New York Post, a court had ordered the children to be taken away from her just one day before the alleged killings — a detail that investigators believe is central to understanding what happened.
She has been charged in connection with the deaths of both children. The investigation is ongoing.
