A black mother is in police custody after killing her 18-month-old twins by drowning and smothering them, and attempting to poison their four-year-old sister to death

Stacey Smalls, 41, is believed to have committed the crimes as she was in a jealous rage over an affair she thought that her husband was having with another family member. Smalls, who worked as a nurse at a nursing home, had apparently made attempts to take her own life by slashing her wrists. She will be charged with two counts of murder.