Court records have revealed a DNA match between Kimberlee Singler, a Colorado woman who fled to the UK after allegedly murdering two of her children in 2023, and a blood-stained handgun found at the crime scene.
37 year old Singler was extradited to the US last week to face charges, following nearly two years in a British prison. On 18 December 2023, she reported a burglary at her home, claiming to have woken up to find her 11 year old daughter injured and her two younger children dead.
She disappeared just days later.
The following week, authorities located her in London and arrested her. She stands accused of killing two of her children and injuring another, before staging the scene to make it look like a home invasion had occurred.
She was transferred to El Paso County in Colorado on 23 December, where she is currently being held without bond, awaiting her next court appearance on 7 January, reports the Mirror US.
An arrest affidavit for Singler from 2023, obtained by KKTV, provides a detailed account of the night when authorities arrived at Singler’s Colorado Springs residence to discover her children deceased.
Shortly before 12:30 a. m.
on 19 December, Singler contacted the Colorado Springs Police Department, reporting that an intruder had attacked her children in her flat. Officers responding to the call found her 9- and 7 year old children dead in their bedroom, while her injured daughter was rushed to hospital.
Police discovered a blood-stained weapon on the floor outside the bedroom wardrobe, according to the arrest documents. When examining the firearm, detectives found that ammunition within the magazine was covered in blood, suggesting someone had loaded the gun whilst already having blood on their hands.
Singler maintained that an intruder had gained access to the property through a side entrance. The arrest warrant noted there were no signs of forced entry to the flat, however, nor any evidence that anyone apart from the family had entered or departed.
She stated that she lost consciousness when a male assailant seized her inside the property and came round to discover her children had been harmed. She insisted she was “very weak and faint” and therefore couldn’t locate her phone to ring for assistance.
Only when her phone started playing music did Singler claim she found it and made the emergency call.
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The bloodied firearm found by officers belonged to another woman who shared the flat with Singler, according to the arrest documentation. Nevertheless, she stated only she, Singler and one other individual knew about it.
When questioned by officials about who could have known the weapon’s location, Singler claimed she believed someone had observed her from outside the property when she went to check on the gun, and therefore knew where to locate it for use during the killings. The woman residing at the flat confirmed that Singler’s account didn’t add up, according to court documents.
Forensic examinations discovered a match between Singler’s blood and the blood found on the firearm. Court documents also highlighted that Singler admitted during interviews that she was aware the children had been shot before the authorities themselves had realised this fact, only discovering it after their post-mortems.
Singler’s 11 year old daughter initially told detectives that she saw a man during the incident, but later confessed that Singler had asked her to lie, as stated in the affidavit.
Despite Singler informing police that she suspected her ex-husband was responsible for the attack, GPS records and discussions with his employers verified that he had been driving a lorry approximately 80 miles away from the Colorado Springs residence at the time of the murders.
During the custody dispute, the family had been living with Singler’s mother, who was absent at the time of the assault, as per U.K. court documents.
The day prior to the discovery of the bodies, a judge in Colorado instructed Singler to adhere to a previous order to allow her ex-husband to have custody of their children over the holidays, as per court records. She was directed to either hand over the children to her ex-husband independently or bring them to a court hearing on 20th December 2023, to transfer custody there.
On the day of the hearing, Singler requested the judge to postpone it. In her motion, she stated that she and her children had been attacked, resulting in the murder of two of them.
She asked for time to grieve and “gain my bearings after this incident.”
Following her extradition to the U.S. 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.
