Roseville Mom Additionally Charged for Stabbing Other Daughter
Sieferman remains in police custody at Regions Hospital with self-inflicted wounds.
Sieferman has been charged with first and second degree attempted murder, a penalty of which is 20 years per count.
Criminal complaint
According to the criminal complaint, Sieferman called 911, telling dispatchers, “I killed my children,” and requesting police and paramedics. Coughing and breathing heavily, she told the 911 operator she cut her daughters with a knife, then said, “the knife is hurting me now.”
Minutes later, a neighbor called 911, saying Sieferman’s daughter, Hannah, had come over and was bleeding profusely. The girl told the neighbor their mother tried to kill her and her sister, Linnea, who was not breathing.
‘Kill Me! Kill Me!’
When police arrived at the
Officers entered the home and found the walls and floors to be covered in blood, with Linnea Sieferman lying unresponsive in a pool of blood with multiple stab and cut wounds.
Hannah told police her mother “just lost it,” attacking them with a knife, and said “my sister should be dead.”
Sieferman and her daughters were all taken to
Note found in search of home
When searching the
A five-inch bloody knife and bloody axe were recovered from the home, and blood samples from all over the house were collected as evidence.
Describing the attack
While at the hospital, Hannah Sieferman told a detective she and her sister were playing video games the night before and didn’t get much sleep.
She was upstairs talking to her sister, and
Girl grabs axe blade in self-defense
Hannah ran down the stairs and locked herself in a bathroom, but Sylvia Sieferman forced open the door and hit Hannah between the neck and head with the axe.
Hannah estimates she was hit five times with the axe before she was able to grab hold of the blade, hit her mom in the face and run away.
Hannah, who had cuts on her hands from grabbing the axe blade, told police her mom said “I’m a bad mom” and “I had to do this” during the attack.
Girls adopted from China