"Court heard that Collias told Dr. Sumeeta Chatterjee, forensic psychiatrist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, that she felt "broken" and "absolutely alone" and "the only thing she wanted was for the family to be reunited" after her husband Costa Collias, 47 years her senior, died of leukemia on Dec. 1, 2023, three days after being diagnosed."
"The statement of facts said Collias left notes for police and a list of family phone numbers. She also laid out her sons' funeral clothing, their birth certificates, a picture of their dead father and placed a cross beside their bodies."
"After Collias killed the boys, according to the agreed statement of fact, she tried to die by suicide and was left a paraplegic."
Vanessa Collias, 27, pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder after suffocating her sons, four-year-old Dimitri and five-year-old Yiannis, on Dec. 10, 2023, in a Scarborough apartment. Her husband, Costa Collias, who was 47 years older, died of leukemia on Dec. 1, 2023, three days after diagnosis. Collias told a forensic psychiatrist she felt broken and alone and wanted the family reunited in heaven. She left notes, a list of family phone numbers, funeral clothing, birth certificates, a picture of the deceased husband and a cross beside the boys. She attempted suicide and became a paraplegic. Police found the children unresponsive and Collias had fallen from the sixth floor. She was sentenced to life with no parole for 18 years.
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