DALLAS - The prosecution rested its case Friday in the capital murder trial for a mother who confessed to Irving police that she killed her two young daughters.
Much of the final testimony focused on the police interview conducted the day after Madison McDonald killed her daughters, 1-year-old Lilian and 6-year-old Archer, in April 2021.
In the video, she continued making false claims she killed them to protect them from abuse.
Her lawyer argued she was having a severe mental health episode and did not know what she was doing.
We learned McDonald sedated her children by putting pills in their yogurt before smothering them to death.
Her defense team said she was off her mental health medication and presented a pattern of false claims she made to Irving police.
"I felt like I did what I had to do to protect my kids. I don’t, I’m not okay. I don’t think it’s right. I think I deserve to be arrested," McDonald said in the interrogation video.
Much of Friday’s testimony focused on the police interview conducted one day after the murders.
"I gave them some pills. Archer went to sleep and Lilian didn’t. She kept going. I thought that was odd because she is the baby essentially, so it should have affected her heavier, it’s hard to say, I feel like I’m going to throw up," McDonald said in the interrogation video.
McDonald told police she killed them to "protect" them from abuse and she told police she gave the girls Xanax and other pills in their yogurt.
She said she smothered her...
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