A father who abducted his two-year-old child turned the gun on himself after killing his daughter. Continue reading after the jump.
Mourad ‘Moni’ Samaan and toddler Madeline Layla Samaan-Fay were found dead on Saturday inside his car in a Californian forest near Sacramento.
Samaan sparked a week-long manhunt when he ran away with his daughter after he lost a custody battle with the girl’s mother earlier this month.
Samaan’s father, Makram Samaan, a psychologist who helps couples mediate disputes and divorces, has revealed his son was spending the day with his daughter Madeline when he learned that a Sacramento County judge had awarded her mother full custody.
Makram Samaan said his son called him to say that he was scared of losing his daughter so abducted Madeline that night.
The toddler’s mother, who was scheduled to pick up her daughter the following morning, reported her missing as soon as she realised they were gone.
The father and daughter were last seen in a Sacramento Raley’s grocery store on Sunday.
After a call from the FBI, El Dorado County Sheriff’s deputies, with the help of a California Highway Patrol helicopter, searched a wooded 40-acre property in the Grizzly Flat area that Moni Samaan owned with his brother.
They found his car in a clearing beneath pines trees, about 500 yards up a winding dirt road with both bodies inside.
Rip madeline,. So sad that the toddler didnt knoe what was happening