Mom Drowns Daughter, Drinks Paint Thinner

"SOMERVILLE, NJ — Authorities have concluded that the deaths of a woman and her 4-year-old daughter in an upscale New Jersey town were a murder-suicide.

"Autopsy results indicate Patricia Graham-Hawthorne drowned her daughter, Allison, in a bathtub in their Bernardsville home on Feb. 24.

"Somerset County Prosecutor Geoffrey Soriano says preliminary autopsy results indicate the 45-year-old then took her own life by ingesting paint thinner and drowning.

"Her husband found the bodies."

From The Republic...