Chilling audio captured moment cops found bodies of children allegedly strangled by acupuncturist mom in their Mass. home
Police responding to a welfare check at a Wellesley, Massachusetts home discovered the bodies of two children, 7-year-old Ella and 6-year-old Kai, who had been allegedly strangled by their mother, Janette MacAusland. The incident unfolded after MacAusland was found in Vermont with a self-inflicted throat injury and admitted to killing her children before attempting suicide. Audio from the dispatch captures the grim scene, with officers noting extensive blood spatter and confirming the children’s deaths at the scene.
- ▪Janette MacAusland, a 49-year-old former acupuncturist, allegedly strangled her two children before traveling to Vermont and slashing her throat.
- ▪Police found the bodies of 7-year-old Ella and 6-year-old Kai MacAusland in a bedroom during a welfare check on April 22, 2026.
- ▪Dispatch audio revealed officers discovered blood spatter throughout the home and canceled EMS requests, declaring the scene a police matter.
- ▪MacAusland faces two counts of first-degree murder in Massachusetts and a fugitive of justice charge in Vermont.
- ▪The children were found dead four days before the public release of police audio detailing the discovery of the bodies.
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US News Chilling audio captured moment cops found bodies of children allegedly strangled by acupuncturist mom in their Mass. home By Alex Oliveira Published April 29, 2026, 1:20 p.m. ET Newly released police dispatch audio captured the harrowing moments officers realized two maimed children allegedly strangled by their own mother in their Massachusetts home could not be saved. “There’s blood spatter everywhere,” an officer said Friday as he moved into the Wellesley home of Samuel and Janette R. MacAusland, where he’d found “a rear door unsecured” while conducting a welfare check. 4 Kai and Ella were dead by April 22 – days before Wellesley police found their bodies in a bed inside their home, court docs reveal.
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