Dad called ex-wife: 'You can come home now ... I killed the kids'

 

Amara, Sophie and Cecilia Schaffhausen excitedly rushed to the door when their father dropped in unexpectedly Tuesday afternoon, months after their parents divorced and he moved to Minot, N.D.
Jessica Schaffhausen thought her ex-husband, Aaron, was working a construction job in North Dakota, but he'd been fired last week when he didn't show up for work. He had threatened to kill Jessica just a few months earlier, but on Tuesday he text-messaged her with a request: He was back in St. Paul and wanted to spend the day with his girls at the family home in River Falls, Wis. She agreed, but insisted that he leave the house before she returned home at 3:30 p.m.
The girls pulled him upstairs to show him their things. Their baby sitter told investigators she followed later, hugged the girls goodbye and left them in Amara's bedroom with their father.
At 3:30 p.m., Jessica Schaffhausen answered her phone and heard her ex-husband's voice: "You can come home now, because I killed the kids."

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