ST. PAUL, Minn. — The bodies of three young children and their mother were found Friday night and Saturday morning at a Vadnais Heights lake. The Ramsey County sheriff’s office is investigating incident as a possible triple murder-suicide.
The body of a boy was pulled from Vadnais Lake on Friday about 7:30 p.m., and the body of another boy was found after midnight Saturday. Authorities continued to search and found the bodies of the children’s mother at 10:40 a.m. and a girl at 11 a.m. Saturday. All three children were believed to be younger than 6 years, authorities said.
The Ramsey County medical examiner’s office will be working to determine their cause and manner of death, Undersheriff Mike Martin said Saturday.