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Maria Socorro and Carlos Diego Danforth |
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Carol Danforth found the bodies of her children, 2-year-old Maria Socorro and 1-year-old Carlos Diego, in a wooded area in Boyds on April 3, 2007. The body of their father, Gerardo Roque , was found with the children.Danforth had told Roque about two weeks before the murders that she wanted to end their relationship, according to Montgomery County Police Chief Tom Manger. The day the bodies were found, Danforth received a call from Roque, 35, who threatened to harm the children and told her where she could find them, police said. "She found all three of them hanging," Manger said at the time of the discovery. "She got her children down. Officers were there almost immediately and started performing CPR on the children." The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore ruled the cause of death of the children was murder by hanging, and the father's death was suicide by hanging. Manger said the parents were not married, but lived together in a trailer on the Good News Farm, where they had both worked at different times. A check of police and court records for reports of domestic violence calls or protective orders came up empty. Danforth has sought privacy for herself and her two older children since the murders. She did not return calls for this story. "(Roque) was just trying to hurt her for whatever she tried to do," Manger said. "It just made me sick to my stomach." -- Staff and wire reports
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