Woman Calls Cops Claiming She 'Saved' Her 2 Kids By Fatally Stabbing Them

A Montana woman has been charged with murder after calling cops to report that she murdered her two kids inside her house. The 34-year-old woman claimed that she saved her children by fatally stabbing them, authorities said.

Leannah J. Gardipe, from Missoula, has been charged with two counts of deliberate homicide for murdering her 3-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son on Nov. 19. Gardpie is currently held on a $10 million bail, according to online court records, Missoulian reported.

Gardipe called cops on Nov. 19, saying she wanted “to report a murder.” She then confessed to stabbing her two children that morning on her bed using a knife, authorities said. The woman told them that she has informed her mother who should also be calling them, according to the report.

The emergency officers then received a call from Gardipe's mother who said her daughter had called her to say she has “saved her babies.” When the mother asked her if it meant Gardipe had killed them, she began to cry, according to court records.

"I was supposed to die today,” Gardipe reportedly told the responding officers. She said she was waiting for them and sought medical help when she heard one of her children making noises after the stabbing, Law & Crime reported.

The responding officers entered the house and found the children's bodies tucked in bedsheets on a bed. Their bodies had lacerations to their throats and other injuries, including defensive wounds to their hands and fingers. The victims were pronounced dead after medical examination.

The officers who executed a search at her house found a bloody serrated steak knife under the bed. They also found a letter in the bedroom that read: “It was the only way that we all wouldn’t burn, now I’m the only one of us that will.”

The court ordered Gardipe to undergo a mental health evaluation. The judge found her to be a great risk to the community and ordered her to be held on bond. If Gardipe posts bail, she has to be on pretrial supervision and cannot possess any weapon. She is scheduled to arrive in court for a hearing on Dec. 6.