Mother Charged With Murder in Suffocation of 3 Girls
A mother accused of binding her three daughters’ hands with duct tape, sealing their noses and mouths and then suffocating them was charged with murder Wednesday.
Attorneys for Megan Hogg, 25, who stood mute behind a glass wall in the Redwood City courtroom, asked for a week’s delay in entering a plea. She could face the death penalty if convicted.
Hogg was accused of killing 7-year-old Antoinette Marden, 3-year-old Angelique Roberts and 2-year-old Alexandra Hogg, whose pajama-clad bodies were found early Monday.
Officials said Hogg left two notes--one that detailed how she would carry out the killings and a second apparently written later to say she’d completed the deed. Neither gave an explanation for the killings.
“We may never get to the bottom of it,” said Daly City Police Lt. Steven Lowe.
The two notes and duct tape were found in the bedroom, and autopsies Tuesday confirmed that the girls were suffocated. Additional toxicology tests were needed to determine if the girls were drugged before they died, Lowe said.
Friends and relatives said Hogg, who worked for AT & T, was an adoring and gentle single mother who gave no hint she was depressed or unhappy.
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