Police say mom killed her own kids

**lewisipso** · 01-29-11, 11:44 PM

TAMPA - With a .38-caliber revolver she bought five days before, Julie Schenecker shot her 13-year-old son twice in the head as they drove home from soccer practice Thursday evening, police said.

She then parked the family's SUV in the garage of their New Tampa home, went upstairs and shot her 16-year-old daughter in the back of the head and in the face as she did her homework on the computer, authorities said.

When an officer arrived at the home in the gated Ashington Reserve community early Friday in response to a call from a worried relative, Schenecker was on the back porch in slippers and a bloody robe.

She told investigators she killed her children because "they talked back, they were mouthy and she was tired of it," police spokeswoman Laura McElroy said.

Schenecker, 50, was arrested on two counts of first-degree murder.

McElroy said she showed no remorse.

Clad in a white jumpsuit, a wide-eyed and haunted-looking Schenecker shook uncontrollably as she was led in shackles to Orient Road Jail.

Police say mom killed her own kids