Over the past 15 years, Ventura County has seen only a few cases. In 1995, Michael Sasse of Simi Valley shot and killed his two children, ages 3 and 4, before committing suicide. He apparently was distraught that his marriage was ending and killed the children during a custody visit.
Cora Caro was convicted and sent to death row for shooting to death three of her four sons in 1999 as they slept in their beds in their Santa Rosa Valley home. Prosecutors argued she killed the children as an act of revenge against her husband for their troubled marriage.
Narinder Kaur Virk of Port Hueneme was convicted in 2002 of trying to kill her two children but was found not guilty because she was legally insane. Virk pushed her two children into the cold waters of Channel Islands Harbor in 2000 before jumping in herself, but all three survived. Her attorneys claimed she was the victim of physical abuse by her husband, allegations he denied.
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