A “broken” mom k!lled her two young sons just days after her much older husband di3d of cancer, before trying to jump to her own de@th so they could all be “reunited in Heaven.”
Vanessa Collias, 27, cried in court Monday, Nov. 17, as she pleaded guilty to k!lling sons Yiannis, 5, and Dimitri, 4, in December 2023, just nine days after her 72-year-old husband, Costa, succumbed to an aggressive form of leukemia, according to the Toronto Star.
Collias’ late husband and their sons
She held her hands over their mouths and nose while singing “You Are My Sunshine”, then jumped off the balcony of their Toronto apartment in the hopes of k!lling herself, too.
Police found the brothers’ bodies lying in front of a TV with a kids’ show playing, with clothes for their funeral laid out beside them, along with a photograph of their recently deceased dad and a cross.
The k!ller mom survived her jump, but was left paralyzed from the waist down.
She was initially charged with first-degree murd3r, but the charges were downgraded to second-degree murd3r because of the grief she was suffering from her husband’s de@th after a painful spiral. She had told a psychiatrist she was “broken, absolutely alone, and unable to conceive of continuing a life without (her husband) and wanted all of them to be reunited in Heaven.”
“A part of me will always question why I never said I need help,” Collias said during an emotional virtual court appearance from jail.
“I stand before you, still that broken person who needs help putting herself back together,” she said.
