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                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, April 16, 1991                   TAG: 9104160599
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: HALIFAX                                LENGTH: Short


MOTHER IS CHARGED WITH CAPITAL MURDER

A mother who allegedly killed her two sons before trying to kill herself earlier this month has been charged with capital murder.

Sandra Waldie Moneymaker, 36, was charged Monday at Halifax-South Boston Community Hospital, where she is recovering from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound to the abdomen.

In an affidavit filed last week, a Halifax police investigator wrote that Moneymaker admitted shooting her two sons, William, 16, and David Lee, 8, as they slept on the morning of April 5.

Also in the affidavit was a statement made by Moneymaker's husband that she was taking the anti-depressant drug Prozac at the time of the slayings.

- Associated Press



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