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Tenia Campbell, age 28, of Medford, pleaded guilty to two counts of murder in Suffolk County Court on Monday, Dec. 11 in connection with the girls’ killings in June 2019.
Prosecutors said Campbell’s mother called 911 at around 2:40 p.m. on June 27, 2019, saying Campbell was driving around in the family van threatening to kill her daughters.
The call prompted a large-scale police search between Medford and Montauk.
Finally, at around 4 p.m. an East Hampton Police officer spotted the van off Montauk Highway, a few miles east of Montauk Point.
She found Campbell outside of the van and her two-year-old twin daughters dead in their car seats.
Campbell eventually confessed that she had smothered the girls to death.
“This is such a sad and tragic case. Those two little girls looked to this defendant, their mother, for protection and love. Instead, she executed them,” said Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney.
“The defendant has one thing those twin girls will never have again: life. But now, this defendant will get to live out the majority of her life behind bars.”
In court Monday, Campbell pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder.
She is expected to get 20 years to life in prison when she’s sentenced in January 2024.
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