Steak knife murders/Mom kills children 👦🏻 👧🏼

When officers arrived at the house on Patty Ann Drive in Missoula MT that Friday morning, they found 5-year-old Namaus and 3-year-old Evelyn lying on their backs and tucked into their bedsheets. They had significant lacerations on their throats and defensive wounds on their hands and fingers. They were deceased.

Detectives found a note inside the house that said, “it was the only way that we all wouldn’t burn, now I’m the only one of us that will.”

Leannah Gardipe, 34yo, and her children had only been living in the community since the summer, but they had already made a wonderful impression on their neighbors.

“They (the kids) were usually very busy riding their bikes, or catching bugs, or checking out the plants in the yard, or something like that,” neighbor Sandra Talbot said, “They were fun to watch….. just happy kids, and their mother was always with them.”

The children’s grandmother was the first person to call 911 early on Friday, Nov 19th after speaking with her daughter, Leannah, who said that she had “saved her babies.” Shortly afterward, Leannah called the police herself, saying that she wanted to report a…