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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rebecca Boone

Doomsday plot? After 3 years, slain kids' mom to stand trial

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It has been more than three years since police announced that two kids were missing from a rural eastern Idaho town, and each twist in the grim investigation has seemed stranger than the last.

Their mother claimed to be a deity, her estranged husband wrote in divorce papers. She called the children “zombies” before they vanished, a friend told police. A handful of followers seemed to buy into her doomsday claims, Arizona investigators reported.

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