ST. PETERS, Mo. (AP) Authorities in the St. Louis suburb of St. Peters say a 69-year-old woman strangled her daughter and cut her own throat as part of a suicide pact. Donna Scuderi was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder in the death of her 39-year-old daughter, Laura Scuderi. Charging documents say Laura Scuderi was found in a bedroom Friday with a plastic bag over her head, with pill bottles nearby. Donna Scuderi was found alive in a bathroom with a large knife wound. Authorities say she told officers that her daughter had been depressed and wanted to die, so they planned to kill themselves together.
Missouri mom strangled daughter before cutting her own throat in suicide pact, police say
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ST. PETERS, Missouri (KMOV) A St. Charles County woman is charged with murder after investigators say she confessed to killing her daughter before slicing her own throat with a knife.
On Friday, May 14, Donna Scuderi was in her home in the 200 block of Jody Drive along with her daughter. Her husband, the girl’s father, came home from work and went to the basement to work out, unaware the two were upstairs in the home.
When he finished, he went to the home’s top floor and discovered his daughter in an upstairs bedroom with a plastic bag wrapped around her head. He found his wife in a nearby bathroom unconscious and bleeding. He immediately called 911.
Warning: The details of this story may be disturbing to some Author: Dori Olmos, Robert Townsend Published: 3:32 PM CDT May 18, 2021 Updated: 9:49 PM CDT May 18, 2021
ST. PETERS, Mo. A St. Charles County woman is accused of killing her adult daughter before gravely injuring herself.
Donna Scuderi, 69, was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder in Laura Scuderi s death. According to the probable cause statement, Scuderi indicated she and her daughter planned to kill themselves together, but police are investigating the death.
The statement from a St. Peters police detective details what Scuderi’s husband said he found when he got home from work Friday and what Scuderi told investigators from a hospital bed days later.