Colorado mom accused of killing 2 children and fleeing to UK returns stateside to face murder charges

A Colorado pistillate accused of sidesplitting 2 of her young children during a custody quality successful December 2023 has been extradited from the United Kingdom to the U.S. to look execution charges, authorities announced Tuesday.

Kimberlee Singler, 37, was arrested successful the U.K. connected Dec. 30, 2023, aft constabulary accidental she drugged and killed her 9-year-old girl and 7-year-old son, and injured her 11-year-old girl earlier fleeing overseas, Colorado authorities said.

Colorado District Attorney Michael Allen confirmed during a quality league that Singler would marque her archetypal tribunal quality successful the coming days connected charges including 2 counts of first-degree murder, including 2 counts of first-degree murder, calling the improvement a "momentous day."

Singler told constabulary that a antheral who entered the flat had committed the convulsive acts and investigators initially treated Singler arsenic a victim.

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Kimberlee Singler faces aggregate charges, including 2 counts of first-degree murder.  (CSPD)

Authorities said Singler's girl initially corroborated her mentation of events, but aboriginal changed her story.

When constabulary aboriginal attempted to apprehension Singler, she was gone. Authorities yet recovered her successful an upscale London neighborhood.

Colorado Springs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez called the extradition a "significant milestone" successful the case, noting that Singler is accused of committing an "unthinkable" act.

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Kimberlee Singler was arrested successful the U.K. connected Dec. 30, 2023, aft constabulary accidental she drugged and killed her 9-year-old girl and 7-year-old son, and injured her 11-year-old girl earlier fleeing overseas. (Parker Seibold/The Gazette via AP/ GoFundMe/ CSPD)

"Crimes arsenic horrific arsenic this are simply heart-wrenching," helium said. "They're conscionable simply sad. No person, overmuch little a child, should ever person to spell done thing similar this."

In their transgression country probe successful December 2023, Colorado authorities located spent rounds, a blood-stained weapon and bare bottles of sleeping pills successful a trash can.

Police recovered the 2 dormant children successful furniture together.

At the clip of the crime, Colorado Springs constabulary said they received a 911 telephone reporting a burglary from Singler's address, but investigators aboriginal said grounds did not enactment a burglary.

Both the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Colorado Springs constabulary went to London to apprehend Singler, who fought extradition and has denied harming her children.

Law enforcement are seen astatine a residence wherever 2 children were recovered dormant inside, Dec. 19, 2023, successful Colorado Springs, Colo. (Parker Seibold/The Gazette via AP, File)

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In January 2025, a U.K. justice ruled that Singler could beryllium extradited to the U.S. for trial, and her entreaty was denied past month.

Her lawyer argued against extradition, saying that Singler would beryllium fixed a mandatory condemnation of beingness without parole if convicted of first-degree execution successful Colorado, which would interruption a European quality rights law.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.