August 26, 2015
3 kids taken after mom's killing back in California
Three young children kidnapped from the Los Angeles area after their mother was killed have been returned to California from New Mexico as investigators shift their focus to filling in the gaps in the case.
The children, between 2 and 5, were flown back to the Los Angeles area Thursday night, Los Angeles County sheriff's Capt. Steve Katz said Friday.
They're in the custody of the Department of Children and Family Services, which will decide whether they can be placed with family.
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Robertson and Humphrey are considered persons of interest in the death of Humphrey's half-sister, Kimberly Harvill, whose body was found with multiple gunshot wounds along a road in a remote area of Los Angeles County on Aug. 14.
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A day before their arrest, Harvill's three children were found safe at a motel in the outskirts of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Police said Robertson and Humphrey had asked a man at the motel to watch the kids and that he called police when the couple didn't return.
The children's father, Kenneth Chad Watkins, killed himself by lying in front of a train last September, according to the Fresno County Coroner.
Harvill and the children had most recently lived in Fresno and were transitory, moving from motel to motel, Katz said, adding that they depended on panhandling to survive.
In the days before her death, Harvill was staying with the children in Lebec, the unincorporated area of Los Angeles County where Robertson and Humphrey were living and where Harvill was killed.
Harvill, Humphrey and Robertson were all involved in methamphetamines, detectives said.
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/08/26/3-kids-taken-after-mom-killing-back-in-california.html
3 kids taken after mom's killing back in California
Three young children kidnapped from the Los Angeles area after their mother was killed have been returned to California from New Mexico as investigators shift their focus to filling in the gaps in the case.
The children, between 2 and 5, were flown back to the Los Angeles area Thursday night, Los Angeles County sheriff's Capt. Steve Katz said Friday.
They're in the custody of the Department of Children and Family Services, which will decide whether they can be placed with family.
<snip>
Robertson and Humphrey are considered persons of interest in the death of Humphrey's half-sister, Kimberly Harvill, whose body was found with multiple gunshot wounds along a road in a remote area of Los Angeles County on Aug. 14.
<snip>
A day before their arrest, Harvill's three children were found safe at a motel in the outskirts of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Police said Robertson and Humphrey had asked a man at the motel to watch the kids and that he called police when the couple didn't return.
The children's father, Kenneth Chad Watkins, killed himself by lying in front of a train last September, according to the Fresno County Coroner.
Harvill and the children had most recently lived in Fresno and were transitory, moving from motel to motel, Katz said, adding that they depended on panhandling to survive.
In the days before her death, Harvill was staying with the children in Lebec, the unincorporated area of Los Angeles County where Robertson and Humphrey were living and where Harvill was killed.
Harvill, Humphrey and Robertson were all involved in methamphetamines, detectives said.
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/08/26/3-kids-taken-after-mom-killing-back-in-california.html
