Police discovered the decomposing bodies of Pedro Rodriguez, 28, and daughters Elsa, 9; Vanessa, 4; Carena, 16 months; and son Angel, 3, in the family's Hillcrest home.

The medical examiner's office ruled Pedro Rodriguez's death a suicide by hanging and the children's deaths as homicides. The three girls died of suffocation and their brother of head trauma. Police concluded that Pedro Rodriguez killed his children. The children's mother, Deysi Benitez, 25, went missing for nearly a year before her skeletal remains were discovered in a shallow grave near Emmitsburg on Feb. 29. Authorities believe the remains had been there for about a year.

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