Janette MacAusland is accused of murdering her two young children, whose bodies were found in the family’s Wellesley home Friday night.
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Janette MacAusland’s social media footprint paints a rosy, if unremarkable, picture of life in a quiet Wellesley neighborhood, from photos of grinning children to a post on a community Facebook page soliciting cupcake recommendations for an upcoming birthday party.
But court records tell another story: Since October, MacAusland had been locked in a contentious divorce and custody battle over her children, 6-year-old Ella and 7-year-old Kai MacAusland. It was in the midst of this legal saga that authorities say Janette MacAusland murdered her two children and fled to Vermont, where she was arrested over the weekend…