Mom called 911 claiming attacker harmed her children, but investigators found something at the scene that didn’t add up

Court records show that DNA found on a bloody handgun matched Kimberlee Singler, a Colorado woman accused of killing two of her children in 2023. The 37-year-old was brought back to the United States last week after spending nearly two years in a UK prison.

According to The Mirror, Singler called police to report a break-in at her home. She told officers she woke up to find her 11-year-old daughter hurt and her two younger children dead. Days later, she disappeared.

Police tracked her down in London the following week and arrested her. She was accused of killing her children and hurting another before making the home look like a robbery had happened. She arrived in Colorado’s El Paso County on December 23 and is being held without bond. Her next court date is January 7.

The evidence didn’t match her story at all

Singler called Colorado Springs Police saying someone attacked her children. Officers arrived to find her 9-year-old and 7-year-old children dead in a bedroom. They rushed her injured daughter to the hospital.

Police found a bloody gun on the floor outside the bedroom closet. The bullets inside the gun also had blood on them, meaning someone loaded the weapon after getting blood on their hands.

Singler claimed an attacker came through a side door. But police found no signs of forced entry and no evidence that anyone else had entered or left the home. Emergency calls like this have led to shocking discoveries in other cases across the country.

She said she passed out when a man grabbed her inside the home and woke up to find her children hurt. She claimed she was too weak to search for her phone to call for help. She only called police after her phone started playing music and she could find it.

The gun belonged to another woman who lived in the apartment with Singler. That woman told police only she, Singler, and one other person knew about the gun. When asked who could have known where the gun was, Singler said someone must have watched her through a window when she looked at the gun. 

The woman who lived there said Singler’s story didn’t make sense. Tests showed the blood on the gun matched Singler’s DNA. Court papers also noted that Singler knew the children had been shot before police did, even though officers only learned this after the autopsies.

Singler’s 11-year-old daughter first told investigators she saw a man during the incident. Later, she said Singler had asked her to lie. Singler told police she thought her ex-husband was behind the attack. 

But GPS records and his employer confirmed he was driving a truck about 80 miles away when the killings happened. While some 911 calls reveal genuine emergencies, investigators determined this wasn’t one of them.

The day before the bodies were found, a judge ordered Singler to let her ex-husband take custody of their children during the holidays. She was told to either give the children to him or bring them to a court hearing. 

On the day of the hearing, Singler asked the judge to delay it, saying she and her children had been attacked and two were murdered. After being brought back to the US last week, Singler was charged with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of attempted first-degree murder, two counts of child abuse, and one count of assault.