WARDSBORO, Vt. — A woman reported missing with her two daughters waded into a brook carrying one of them and eluded a rescue attempt before mother and child were swept downstream to their deaths, police said Sunday. The second child's body was found later.
Searchers found the bodies of Nicole Waring and her 6-year-old daughter downstream in Wardsboro Brook on Saturday. They found the body of her 2 1/2-year-old daughter downstream Sunday.
"For whatever reason, it was a deliberate action," said Vermont State Police Capt. David Covell, who stopped short of calling the river plunge a suicide.