The husband of a Massachusetts mother who allegedly murdered her two children pleaded with police to tell him ‘what’s going on’ as the horrors of the crime scene became clear, newly revealed records showed.
Samuel MacAusland, 62, was in New Hampshire on Friday night at the same time his wife Janette MacAusland, 49, allegedly murdered their son Kai and daughter Ella, aged seven and six, in their $1.5 million home in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
According to dispatch records first reported by the Boston Globe, Samuel was alerted by his neighbor that police were at his Wellesley home, leading the father to desperately call 911 for answers.
A dispatcher told the police commander at the scene: ‘The father is on the phone now… (He’s) uncontrollable.’
‘He really needs to know what’s going on,’ the dispatcher said.
The commander then said he was trying to connect Samuel to law enforcement near him in New Hampshire, while investigators searched the gruesome scene where his children were killed.
Police said Kai and Ella were strangled to death in their family home, and their bodies were left for ‘some time’ before they were discovered on Friday night.
The newly revealed dispatch logs also revealed the moment police found the children’s bodies, as an officer reported that he arrived to find no cars in the driveway and a ‘rear door unsecured.’
Samuel MacAusland, 62, pleaded with cops to tell him ‘what’s going on’ after realizing his wife Janette, 49, allegedly murdered their two children on Friday night
Janette MacAusland allegedly murdered her son Kai and daughter Ella, aged seven and six, in their $1.5 million home in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and their bodies were found on Friday night
The officer at the scene told dispatch that seconds after entering the home, he found evidence that a gruesome crime had been committed.
‘There’s blood splatter,’ the officer said, according to police recordings posted by Broadcastify.
As more units arrived at the home around 10pm Friday night, officers then found the bodies of Kai and Ella strangled to death.
Authorities said they believe the children were in the home for ‘some time’, but have not elaborated on how long it was before their bodies were found.
After allegedly killing her children, Janette MacAusland fled the scene and drove around 140 miles away to her aunt’s home in Bennington, Vermont.
MacAusland confessed to murdering her children to Vermont police, telling investigators, ‘I strangled them and then I tried to kill myself’, according to a police report.
Documents say she was in the midst of a bitter divorce from her husband at the time, and her social media shows she had become obsessed with spirituality and ‘enlightenment’ in recent months.
Janette MacAusland is accused of strangling her two children to death
MacAusland is accused of killing her children while in the middle of an ugly divorce with her husband, Samuel MacAusland
Newly revealed police records showed that when officers arrived at the scene, they found ‘blood splatters’ inside the home moments before discovering the children’s bodies
Police said after she allegedly killed her children, MacAusland then arrived unannounced at her aunt’s home and knocked on her window, who said she initially did not recognize her niece as she was covered in blood with a large cut across her throat.
Her aunt, Sandra Mattison, called local police to report her niece acting ‘hysterical’, cops said.
‘Mattison advised that she did not recognize MacAusland at first, only seeing that a female was at her window who had a laceration to her neck,’ the report said, adding that she ‘finally recognized her niece and brought her in the home.’
When investigators spoke to MacAusland, the mother allegedly confessed to murdering her children, saying she tried to then kill herself because she wanted the three of them to ‘go to God together, but it didn’t work.’
MacAusland was arrested in Vermont and made an initial court appearance in the state as she was charged with two counts of murder, and she is set to be returned to Massachusetts for her next court hearings.
MacAusland attended a court hearing in Rutland, Vermont, on Monday, donning a green anti-suicide smock. She is set to be returned to Massachusetts for her next court hearings
After police say she allegedly killed her young children, MacAusland is said to have dashed to her aunt’s home in Vermont, according to a police report
MacAusland made her interest in the cosmic world apparent online, writing: ‘Surfing waves of the Zuvuya. Counting sleeps ’til enlightenment,’ in her Instagram biography, in what appears to be a reference to an element of Mayan spirituality
A professional acupuncturist, MacAusland made her cult-like obsession with spirituality clear online, writing in her Instagram bio: ‘Surfing waves of the Zuvuya. Counting sleeps ’til enlightenment.’
The first part refers to a Mayan concept that involves the practice of navigating inter-dimensional time periods, like the past, present, and future, to access higher levels of human consciousness.
Her words most likely are a reference to the book Surfers of the Zuvuya, written by New Age figure José Argüelles about a ‘journey from the center of the earth to the outermost reaches of the galaxy.’
Her mention of enlightenment is also seemingly a nod to Mayan and New Age spirituality and life beyond the physical – referring to a shift in consciousness and cosmic awakening.
Followers of the New Age movement, from which MacAusland’s eclectic beliefs seemingly derive, believe semi-divine entities like angels roam the earth and communicate with humans, and focus heavily on alternative medicine for healing.
Although MacAusland portrayed herself as a successful businesswoman with a dream marriage and family, according to her former peers, they feared the ‘manipulative’ mother’s facade might crumble one day.
‘She reinvented herself as an acupuncturist and had a successful wellness center, her husband was very successful too, we all would say when she cracks from this facade it will be bad, but never imagined this,’ a former classmate of hers told WNYT.
The unnamed source also recalled MacAusland being ‘intelligent’ and ‘conniving,’ the outlet reported.
MacAusland attended New England School of Acupuncture and was listed as an acupuncturist with New England Integrated Health, which has since removed her description.
Her profile said she also worked at Massachusetts General Hospital and founded Boston Acupuncture Trauma Relief after the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
