Mom charged in kids' mutilation may get freedom

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'EVANSTON, Wyo. – A woman who has spent 20 years in a mental institution for beheading and mutilating her two young daughters because she said they were evil clones may soon get supervised release.

The Wyoming State Mental Hospital in Evanston has asked a judge to place Laura Lee Rice in a group home or an apartment on the hospital's campus, saying she has not shown signs of violent behavior and is a low risk to re-offend, The Gillette News Record reported Sunday.

Rice, 58, was declared criminally insane and found not guilty by reason of mental illness in the deaths of her daughters, who were 15 and 4 months old when they were killed in 1989.

Police found the children's decapitated bodies in plastic bags at Rice's home south of Gillette. After the children were killed, Rice cut various parts of their bodies in an effort to determine whether the girls were clones, authorities said.'