American woman accused of killing her children extradited by U.K.

Kimberlee Singler fled the U.S. after allegedly shooting and stabbing her three children in 2023 during a custody dispute. Though she claimed a burglar broke in, one of her daughters survived to tell police a different story. Singler got far—London—thought not for long. Arrested within days of arriving, she fought extradition for two years.

According to UK court documents, the children's bodies were found by police shortly after midnight on 19 December 2023. Police said they found no footprints in the snow leading to a patio where Singler said an intruder entered through an unlocked door and attacked her, causing her to lose consciousness.

She told police that her ex-husband "had previously dreamt about killing his family, that the children's father was always trying to 'frame her' and 'get her arrested' and to have the kids taken away from her", Judge John Zani said in a January ruling against Singler in Westminster magistrates' court.

Police said GPS records showed that her ex-husband was driving a truck at the time of the killings about 80 miles (130km) away.

Singler was also charged with attempted murder, assault and three counts of child abuse.

Americans go on the lam in Britain because it's easy to fit in and it won't extradite unless the crime is illegal (murdering one's children is also a criminal offense in England and Wales ) and the punishment legal there. Singler's lawyers pointed out that her charges come with a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment without any chance of parole. Her problem seems to have been that the U.K. has a "whole life order," much the same thing, leaving only Colorado's mandatory sentencing at issue. I'm sure they did their best (and they are the best), but back to the States she goes.