This photo released by the Elkhart, Ind., Police Department shows Amber Pasztor. Pasztor, was arrested on two counts of murder Monday, Sept. 26, 2016, in the deaths of seven-year-old Liliana Hernandez and six-year-old Rene Pasztor, who were the subject of an Amber Alert. (Elkhart Police Department via AP) (The Associated Press)
The mother of two Fort Wayne, Indiana children found dead after a recent Amber Alert admitted to killing them during a jailhouse interview Monday.
During a jailhouse interview with WANE, Amber Pasztor said she smothered Rene Pasztor, 6, and Liliana Hernandez, 7, one by one in the backseat of a stolen car to keep them safe and usher them onto heaven.
Pasztor also explained some of the events leading up to the murders. She said she pushed in the door of the children’s legal guardian, grabbed them, put them in the vehicle and just started driving. She was in Michigan when she heard about the Amber Alert that had been issued. That’s when she said she decided to kill the kids. She said she didn’t have the heart to shoot them, so she smothered them.
“They were in good hands, but I don’t think they were safe,” Pasztor told WANE. “My kids are in a better place … they’re in heaven now. They don’t have no worries no more.”
Along with admitting to the murders of her children, Pasztor also admitted to fatally shooting her neighbor, Frank Macomber, 66, in a ditch off of Wallen Road in Fort Wayne. Pasztor has not yet been charged with Macomber’s death.
The hottest stories ripped from the headlines, from crime to courts, legal and scandal.
