Elzbieta Plackowska, 40,
of Naperville, Illinois, allegedly told police she instructed her son
Justin Plackowska and the girl, Olivia Dworakowski, to kneel and pray
before she fatally stabbed them and two dogs at the girl's home on
Tuesday evening, Naperville police said.
Plackowska -- charged
Thursday with two counts of first-degree murder -- allegedly gave
investigators a number of reasons why she killed the children, the most
recent of which was that she was upset with her husband and wanted to
cause him pain, according to police.
"She began stabbing her
son Justin and told him he was going to heaven tonight," DuPage County
prosecutor Bob Berlin told reporters Thursday, citing Plackowska's
alleged statements to police. "He pleaded for his life and told her to
stop, but she continued stabbing him until he was dead."
Plackowska was being held
Thursday without opportunity for bail. If convicted, she would face a
mandatory sentence of life in prison with no possibility of parole.
CNN's attempts to reach
lawyer Mike Mara, a DuPage County public defender representing
Plackowska, weren't immediately successful.
Police officers found the
children's bodies in Olivia's home Tuesday night after Elzbieta
Plackowska, covered in blood, arrived at a nearby friend's house and
claimed she had been robbed, police said.
The friend called police.
Around the same time, Olivia's mother called police to say she had come
home from work and couldn't enter the house because there was a strange
lock on the door, and that she couldn't find Plackowska or the
children, Berlin said.
Officers forced entry
into the home and "walked into a scene of unimaginable horror," finding
the bodies on the floor of the master bedroom, Berlin said.
Investigators said
Plackowska offered several explanations, including that she believed an
intruder killed the children, police said. Later, she told police that
the children had evil inside them and she needed to drive the devil out,
authorities said.
"She ultimately admitted
that she had lied to the police in her earlier statements and stated
she was angry with her husband," Berlin said.
Plackowska told
investigators that she told the children to get ready for bed, and the
kids entered the master bedroom, Berlin said. Plackowska said she then
went to the kitchen, took two knives, entered the bedroom and told the
children to kneel on the floor and pray, according to Berlin.
She told police she
stabbed Justin repeatedly, and then stabbed Olivia because Olivia saw
her attacking Justin, according to Berlin. She said Olivia, like Justin,
pleaded for her life, Berlin said.
Police said Justin was stabbed about 100 times, and Olivia about 50 times.
"She did not express any remorse," Berlin said.
Naperville Police Chief
Bob Marshall told reporters that the "senseless taking of the lives of
these two children defies logic, and our community is grieving."
In all my years of law
enforcement, this is the most gruesome and horrific crime scene that I
have seen," Marshall said at the news conference.
Plackowska told police
she was upset with her husband in part because he was gone most days,
working as a truck driver, and that she felt he didn't treat her as she
deserved.
Plackowska is awaiting a November 21 arraignment.
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