New York City mother charged with murder in her three children's Coney Island drowning deaths
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Erin Merdy, 30, of New York City was arrested on murder charges Wednesday after her three kids were found drowned to death near Coney Island early Monday morning.
Police work along a stretch of beach at Coney Island which is now a crime scene after a mother is suspected of drowning her children in the ocean on September 12, 2022 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Police investigate the scene of three murders near Coney Island. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) A mother was charged with murder in her three children's drowning deaths. (FOX 5 New York) Paul Best is a reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to Paul.best@fox.com and on Twitter: @KincaidBest.
Her children children – 7-year-old Zachary Merdy, 4-year-old Lilana Merdy, and 3-month-old Oliver Bondarev – were found dead in the early hours of Monday morning after one of Merdy's family members called 911 to say the kids might be in danger.
Merdy was found soaking wet about two miles from the scene of the murders and taken into custody.
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