Julie Schenecker talks with attorney Jennifer Spradley on Tuesday, May 6, 2014, prior to the start of day 2 of her trial in Tampa, Fla. Schenecker is accused of killing her two children Calyx, 16, and Beau Schenecker, 13 in 2011.A Tampa mother who is accused of killing her two teenagers told a detective that her children had been “really mean” and she hoped they were dead.
“I loved them when they were birth through six,” Julie Schenecker told Tampa Police Det. Gary Sandel in January 2011.
But they became “sassy” as teens, she said, especially her daughter.
“I just topped over. The last straw,” Schenecker said in the interview, a recording of which was played in court Wednesday. “My daughter, the 16-year-old, is mouthy. She calls me names.”
Prosecutors said Schenecker killed the daughter, Calyx, and her 13-year-old son, Beau. She has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to two counts of first-degree murder. If convicted, she will face a life prison sentence without parole; prosecutors declined to seek the death penalty.