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   An Arizona woman recently charged with two counts of first-degree murder   
   is accused of killing her children with a meat cleaver.   
      
   As Law&Crime previously reported, Police in Tempe, Ariz. announced the   
   arrest of Yui Inoue, 40, on Saturday.   
      
   Authorities initially declined to release specifics about the slayings but   
   spokesperson Sergeant Steve Carbajal said the 7-year-old and 9-year-old   
   victims sustained extreme physical trauma before they died.   
      
   “There were several pieces of information/evidence that led detectives to   
   believe that the cleaver was the weapon used during this incident,”   
   Carbajal told reporters. “There were several pieces of   
   information/evidence that led detectives to believe that the cleaver was   
   the weapon used during this incident.”   
      
   The homicides were first announced late Saturday evening:   
      
      
   On Monday, Inoue made her first court appearance over the grisly and   
   shocking loss of life that occurred in the Phoenix suburb.   
      
   Inoue allegedly contacted police first. Authorities say she flagged down   
   officers early Saturday morning at a police substation on East Apache   
   Boulevard near Arizona State University.   
      
   The distraught mother was primarily speaking Japanese, police say, and   
   admitted that voices in her head told her to kill her children.   
      
   Officers followed up and visited her apartment. There they found the   
   mutilated bodies of Inoue’s 9-year-old girl and 7-year-old boy.   
      
   “[S]he was hearing voices telling her to kill her children,” charging   
   documents said. The suspect allegedly told police that she woke up with   
   blood on her hands around 4:30 a.m. to find her children dead and covered   
   in blood near a doorway. After that, she took a bath, she said, and   
   finally “woke up” to the reality of the violence afterwards–but   
   purportedly had no memory of committing the brutal crime.   
      
   According to local ABC affiliate KNXV, Tempe police said that a meat   
   cleaver covered in blood was discovered inside a bag in the vehicle Inoue   
   drove to the police substation.   
      
   Carbajal added that the meat cleaver had a 6-inch blade and that the bag   
   also contained blood-stained clothing.   
      
   That claim was repeated in court on Monday.   
      
   “I did not kill anybody,” Inoue said through a Japanese interpreter.   
      
   Prosecutor Jay Rademacher disagreed. He asked a Maricopa County Court that   
   Inoue be held on a $2 million cash bond.   
      
   Rademacher recounted the details, noting that the children were “almost   
   completely decapitated.”   
      
   According to the Associated Press, Inoue reportedly laid her head down on   
   the podium as Rademacher described the injuries.   
      
   The two children, whose names are not being released, attended the Kyrene   
   del Cielo Elementary School.   
      
   “Kyrene School District is devastated to learn of the loss of two Kyrene   
   del Cielo Elementary School students,” a statement reads. “We ask for   
   compassion for our Cielo community during this time of healing.”   
      
   “Moments like this remind us that life is precious and too often   
   fleeting,” Superintendent Laura Toenjes added. “Please hold your children   
   and loved ones close. The Kyrene community has a way of coming together   
   with love and support, and I thank you in advance for sending that love   
   toward our Cielo families, staff and students.”   
      
   “These children were helpless, Your Honor, and did everything they could   
   to fight their mother,” the prosecutor said.   
      
   As for the children’s father, he told investigators that he slept in his   
   car on the night in question after an argument with his wife over money   
   for a trip to Japan allegedly ended with her threatening to stab him. He   
   said he never had any reason to suspect the children were in danger.   
      
   Inoue was initially arrested after investigators noticed what appeared to   
   be blood on her heel along with several small cuts on her fingers and a   
   series of bruises on her hands and knees.   
      
   “There’s something elevated about that when it’s a 9-year-old and a 7-   
   year-old,” Sgt. Carbajal said just before Inoue was arrested on Saturday.   
   “This should have never happened.”   
      
   Alberto Luperon contributed to this report.   
      
   [image via Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office]   
      
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