A Florida mother whose decomposing body was found in her car with her 3-year-old twins had killed them by poisoning them with methamphetamine before committing suicide, officials revealed.
The 35-year-old mother, Andrea Langhorst, and her 3-year-old twins, Olivia and Adam Dryer, all had methamphetamine in their systems when they were discovered inside a parked vehicle on March 20 in Melbourne, Florida, news channel WPTV reported.
The Brevard County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the twins’ deaths homicide and determined that they died of methamphetamine intoxication. The autopsy found that their mother died by suicide after overdosing on a combination of methamphetamine and cocaine.
Langhorst’s father, Randy Langhorst, previously told reporters that he hadn’t heard from his daughter since March 11 and had contacted the police to help find her. He speculated at the time that drugs may have played a role in the deaths.
Langhorst and her children were found dead after a passerby called 911 to report a “bad stench” coming from the parked vehicle with fogged-up windows.
Investigators said it appeared that the family was living transiently out of the vehicle along the east coast of Florida.
Randy Langhorst said in March that his daughter — who had several drug arrests on her rap sheet — was “smart as a whip” and a “free spirit” who “lived her life to the beat of her own drummer.” He also said her twins were her “pride and joy.”
