Girl, 9, Killed Before Abductors Are Arrested
A 9-year-old Washington state girl kidnapped by her mother last month was killed Friday before her abductors were taken into custody at a Lake Tahoe campground, police said.
A standoff with the girl’s mother, Lisa Ann Platz, 31, and the woman’s boyfriend, Ames N. Csucsai, 35, ended around noon when authorities stormed their tent.
The two were taken into custody and hospitalized for what appeared to be self-inflicted knife wounds, authorities said.
Csucsai was booked into the El Dorado County jail on charges of murder, being a fugitive from justice from Washington state and also on a federal charge of flight to avoid prosecution, authorities said.
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