Janette MacAusland, a mother from Massachusetts, faces serious charges after the tragic deaths of her two children, Kai, 7, and Ella, 6. Following the incident, she reportedly attempted to take her own life. On Thursday, MacAusland’s defense team filed a motion to either dismiss the murder charges against her or to grant her bail. This legal action comes shortly after the conclusion of the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, which ended in a mistrial just days earlier.
Joseph Krowski, Janette MacAusland’s attorney, told a judge that there was insufficient evidence to hold the 49-year-old Wellesley mother in jail.
Wellesley police discovered the children’s deaths inside a bedroom after her worried aunt called the police, according to terrifying dispatch audio. They also observed that there was “blood spatter everywhere.” MacAusland faces two counts of first-degree murder. The children were found dead inside the family’s home in Wellesley, Massachusetts, in April after police conducted a welfare check.
Three days prior to the killings, on April 21, a guardian was appointed after the parents filed a motion to have a third party make custody recommendations, seemingly bringing the heated legal struggle to a close. Because of postpartum psychosis, clancy, who was charged with killing her three children in 2023, argued she was not criminally responsible for the killings.
MacAusland worked for New England Integrated Health as an acupuncturist, according to WCVB . Samuel MacAusland, the father of the children, was requesting custody of the couple’s home and children, according to court documents. The case returned to Dedham District Court less than a week after a Massachusetts jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict in the Lindsay Clancy trial.
After her husband filed for divorce in October of last year, after nine years of marriage, she had been fighting for custody of the kids.
