We’re learning new details about the days leading up to the September murders of a mother and two of her three kids, who were killed in a Wallingford house fire.
One daughter, 11-year-old Lulu, was the sole survivor after she jumped out of a window. The father, Salvatore Ragusa, was accused of setting the fire and then killing himself.
“It’s just unbelievable to me,” said Adrea Sloniker. “Something had to have been wrong with him to do that kind of damage.”
Sloniker’s little sister, Lana Stewart, was the mother who died alongside two of her three kids, 7-year-old Sebastiano ‘Seby’ and 4-month-old Valentina.
“I don’t think it was so much about herself, but it was to save her brother and sister,” said Sloniker.
It’s 11-year-old Lulu, who managed to escape out of the back window as the flames ravaged her home.
“She just knew she had to survive,” Sloniker explained. “She almost had to survive a whole week previous to that.”
Lulu’s strength to survive came before that fateful day.
Sloniker tells KIRO 7 the family had gotten into a car accident a week before, landing them all in the hospital.