ROUND LAKE BEACH, Ill. - An estranged father has been charged with first-degree murder after admitting to drowning his three children, police said on .
The mother who found her three children murdered in Round Lake Beach spoke publicly Wednesday and said her husband killed their children because "he knew that would hurt me the most."
The Round Lake Beach man charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the drownings of his three children left a note to his wife reading, "if I can t have them neither can you," prosecutors revealed at a bond hearing Wednesday morning.
A Round Lake Beach man drowned his three children at his home before fleeing and leading police on a chase that ended in a crash off an Interstate 80 bridge in Joliet, authorities said Tuesday afternoon.