Faulkner County child was not sedated at time of death, coroner says | The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

MAYFLOWER — A 7-year-old Mayflower girl and her grandmother were not sedated at the time of their deaths, toxicology reports show.

Faulkner County Coroner Patrick Moore says toxicology results show that neither Abby Robbins, 7, nor her grandmother Janice Moore, 63, had drugs or alcohol in their systems when they died in a house fire on Jan. 7. Investigators believe the incident was a murder-suicide initiated by Moore.

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This undated family photo shows Abby Robbins, 7, of Conway, Ark. The girl's grandmother, Janice Robbins, who adopted Abby after her son's death in Iraq, purportedly stabbed the 7-year-old girl in the chest and then set fire to their home in an apparent murder-suicide, authorities said Monday, Jan. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Family Photo via Log Cabin Democrat)

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