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Laurel Schlemmer
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Laurel Schlemmer
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Laurel Schlemmer
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Laurel Schlemmer confessed that she told her two younger sons,
3-year-old Luke (far left)
and 6-year-old Daniel (far right) to get
in the tub and then sat on them, believing she
could be a better
mother to her older son (center) with them gone.
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The deadly drowning took place in the Schlemmers' home in the 900
block of Saratoga Drive
in upscale
bedroom community of McCandless,
Pennsylvania.
The victims
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Daniel Schlemmer, 6, and Luke Schlemmer, 3.