Two days before Monica Cannady and two of her children were found frozen to death in a Michigan field, worried neighbours began alerting police to a family wandering in the area wearing clothes that couldn’t possibly protect them from the unforgiving cold.
The mother experienced a mental health crisis in the days leading up to the gruesome 15 January discovery and was convinced people were out to kill her, police in Oakland County have said. She reportedly instructed her children — Lilly, 10; Kyle, nine; and Malik, three — to hide if anyone approached them, and told them to lie down and go to sleep in the field.
