An Arkansas woman who adopted her
granddaughter after her son's death in Iraq stabbed the 7-year-old girl
in the chest and then set fire to their home in an apparent
murder-suicide, authorities said Monday.
Janice Robbins, 63, left a suicide note in her pickup truck before killing her granddaughter, Abby Robbins, and herself on Saturday, Faulkner County sheriff's spokesman Maj. Andy Shock said. In the note, she wrote that she didn't want to leave the girl behind.
Robbins stabbed the girl once in the chest, but it was the smoke from the fire, not the stab wound, that killed Abby and her grandmother, the county coroner said.
Abby's father, Army Staff Sgt. William T. "Terry" Robbins, was shot and
killed by a fellow soldier in Iraq in 2005 during a dispute over
alcohol.
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