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MADRAS, Ore. — A couple who hadn't been seen for three days were found dead in their locked bedroom with their crying 9-month-old daughter in an apparent murder-suicide. Three older children had been left out on their own.

The bodies of Hannah Crowe and Julian Wallulatum were discovered Saturday after the older children asked a neighbor to help.

Crowe, 26, and Wallulatum, 21, had both been shot, said police Sgt. Dennis Schneider.

A preliminary investigation showed it "appears to be a murder-suicide resulting from a domestic dispute," Detective Tanner Stanfill said in a statement. The shooting probably occurred Thursday, he said.

The statement listed Crowe as the victim.

The three older children had been playing outside Thursday and Friday so nothing seemed wrong, said neighbor Andrew Smith.

But on Saturday, the kids knocked on his door, led by the oldest, an 8-year-old boy, Smith said.

"The oldest one said 'I can't wake my mom up. I can't wake my mom and dad up, 'cause I think they're still passed out, but I can see blood on my mom's leg, under the door,"' Smith told KTVZ-TV of Bend.

Smith said he went to the couple's apartment, smelled a foul odor and heard the couple's baby crying. He kicked down the locked bedroom door and found them dead in the same clothes they were wearing New Year's Eve.

The baby was beside them; her shirt stained with their blood.

"My knees, they wobbled," Smith said. "It just took it out of me. I almost fainted."

"How could they leave the babies?" asked neighbor Ashley Barker. "If something was going on, an argument, why didn't they send them to the neighbors?"

Smith said the state Department of Human Services took the baby into protective custody, and the other children were with relatives.

Madras is a town of just over 6,000 people, about 100 miles southeast of Portland.

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JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Police searched garbage dumps in New Jersey and Pennsylvania on Tuesday for the body of a baby apparently thrown out with the trash at a Jersey City hospital sometime in the past two weeks.

"It's like they treated my son like he's nothing," said Kalynn Moore, the 26-year-old mother. "It hurts so bad."

Moore gave birth to Bashere Davon Moyd Jr. at Christ Hospital on Dec. 21, about a month before her due date. Her cousin Nicia Royster said she went with a nurse that day to place the corpse into the hospital's morgue.

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Hospital officials went to Moore's Jersey City home on Jan. 2 and told her that a funeral home had come to pick up the remains, but they could not be found.

Police say the body was discarded in the trash, but they do not know when. The hospital has not officially said the baby was thrown in the trash but didn't dispute the police statement.

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A two-year-old may have been living with his dead mother for five days before being found by police, Fox4KC.com reported.

Riley County Police say there's no evidence of foul play in the death of mother Erin Yeager, 32, of Manhattan, Kan. Police said her two-year-old son was found in critical condition and life flighted to the hospital on Saturday. That's when police found the toddler.

Police suspect Erin died on Tuesday and that it's possible the baby was in the house for many days with his dead mother.

"I don't know that I've ever had a situation like this where a child is left at home alone with a deceased parent," said Riley County Sheriff's Department Lt. Kurt Moldrup.

Police said Yeager's estranged husband contacted them over the weekend when he tried to pick up the baby, but couldn't get in touch with Erin. He said he was outside the door, but she wasn't answering the phone.

When police showed up at the home on Saturday morning, they said they found the mother's body in the bedroom.

The toddler was sitting on the couch drifting in and out of consciousness. He was extremely lethargic, and suffering from dehydration, malnutrition, and severe diaper rash.

On Monday, police said the baby is doing much better, and as they put it "even flirting with the nurses."

As for the mother, police said they're waiting on autopsy results to determine the cause of death.

Neighbor Iris Williams said she helped Yaeger chase down her dog who ran away a week and a half ago, but said it was an odd exchange.

"Very cold, very distant. Couldn't look me in the eyes. Just always turned the other way," said Williams.

Now, she feels for Yaeger's son. "It really went straight to your stomach especially with a child involved. Being around a dead mom, and maybe saying 'mom I'm thirsty' or 'I'm hungry' and diapers and how must the child feel?"

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A father allegedly threw his four-year-old daughter off a bridge in front of the girl's two young brothers and scores of motorists during rush hour in Melbourne today.

Witnesses said Arthur Phillip Freeman, 35, suddenly stopped his family car – which also had his two young sons inside – and, with young Darcey Iris in his arms, walked to the side of the West Gate Bridge, just after 9 a.m.

He then allegedly dropped his young daughter over the railing and into the water, 190 feet below.

Shocked drivers who witnessed the incident – which police say occurred in a matter of seconds – immediately called emergency hotlines as Freeman reportedly got back in the large white family Land Cruiser, and drove away.

Darcey miraculously survived the fall and was pulled from the water by police within 10 minutes and ambulance officers spent the next 50 minutes resuscitating her on the bank on the side of the Yarra River.

She was then airlifted by helicopter to the nearby Royal Children’s Hospital in a critical condition and treated for the next four hours.

The tragedy gripped Australia as it unfolded on television, with footage of paramedics frantically trying to resuscitate Darcey on the riverbank streamed during regular news bulletins with updates on the little girl’s condition.

Freeman was arrested by police an hour after the tragic incident when he was spotted, accompanied by his two sons, Benjamin, 7, and Jack, 23 months, in a “visibly distressed” state outside the Commonwealth Law Courts across town in central Melbourne. The family had been in the midst of a custody battle.

Security staff at the court said that Freeman was shaking like a leaf, and staring with wild eyes when they spotted him and alerted police. Police, initially unaware he was involved in the bridge incident, said they took him into custody peacefully.

As he was being led away, Freeman reportedly begged court staff to "take care of my kids.''

“He was pretty down and he had the two other children with him and he tried to enter the court. He couldn't talk to anyone, he wouldn't talk to anyone, he was just a mess,'' witness Vince Mascia told the Nine Network.

As Freeman was being questioned by detectives, Darcey died in hospital from massive internal injuries.

Her father was then charged with murder and set to appear before a criminal court. However he was deemed "suicidal" by psychiatrists and remanded in custody. He will next appear in court on May 21 for a committal hearing.

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damn sis, can't u find any happy stories?? i'm about to cry after reading these.. makes my heart so sad. dammmmmmmmitman.

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