"Officials Rule 5-Year-Old Bronx Twins' Deaths as Homicides by Smothering"

The 5-year-old twins found dead in their mother's bed in the Bronx last December were determined by the city's medical examiner to have been smothered to death, ruling their deaths as homicides. No arrests have been made, and initial autopsies required further study. The mother, who has not been named, told officers she had slept in the same bed as her children the previous night and found them stiff and cold the next morning.