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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - Three young girls killed by their mother did not have any defensive wounds, indicating they may have been sleeping when they were hanged in the closet of their home, the Tarrant County medical examiner said Thursday.
Dr. Nizam Peerwani said Gilberta Estrada, who also hanged herself and strung up an 8-month-old daughter who survived, tied pieces of clothing around their necks and then around a wooden board probably about an hour or so before they were found about 6:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Estrada could have killed herself and daughters up to six hours before her sister discovered them in their mobile home in Hudson Oaks, about 25 miles west of Fort Worth, Peerwani said. But the murders and suicide probably happened shortly before they were found because the infant, Evelyn Frayre, survived, he said.
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