Mother Found Sane When She Killed Daughters With Sword

By Bay City News Service

A Fairfield woman faces life in prison without parole when she is
sentenced later this summer for killing her twin daughters in their apartment
in October 2010.
          A Solano County Superior Court jury on Tuesday found that Monica
McCarrick, 29, was sane when she used a sword to kill the 3-year-old twins,
Tori and Lily Ball, on Oct. 10, 2010, according to the Solano County District
Attorney's Office.
          The jury convicted McCarrick on June 15 of two counts each of
first-degree murder and assault on a child causing death.
          McCarrick had pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of
insanity. She will be sentenced on Aug. 6.
          Her daughters were found dead near the door of McCarrick's burning
apartment. They died of multiple stab and slash wounds from a samurai sword.
          Fairfield police said McCarrick had tried to commit suicide after
the killings by cutting herself and lighting fire to her third-floor
apartment at the Summit at Paradise Valley complex at 3001 N. Texas St.