ELKHART, Ind. -- The Elkhart County Prosecutor's Office will seek life without parole for a mother accused of murdering her two children last month.
Prosecutor Curtis Hill announced the decision Thursday. It comes a little more than two weeks after 29-year-old Amber Pasztor approached an Elkhart police officer and reported she had "two dead people" in her vehicle.
Inside her car, officers found the bodies of her children, 7-year-old Liliana Hernandez and 6-year-old Rene Pasztor. The two had been the subject of an Amber Alert.
Above: Rene Pasztor, 6, and Liliana Hernandez, 7
The body of a third person involved in that Amber Alert, 66-year-old Frank Macomber, was found in a wooded area on the 6600 block of Wallen Road in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
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An autopsy determined the children died of asphyxiation. Macomber died of a gunshot wound.
Pasztor is charged with killing both of her children, one after the other.
"Indiana law provides that murders alleged to have occurred under certain circumstances are particularly heinous and therefore subject to harsher penalty considerations," Hill said in a written statement. "We have alleged that this mother murdered her two children, both of whom were under the age of 12. In this circumstance, a sanction of life without parole for the murder of these two children is an appropriate consideration given the gravity of this horrible crime."
Pasztor's neighbors in the trailer park where she and her children lived described her to RTV6 last month as "mentally ill."
She was being held without bail at the Elkhart County Correctional Facility.
