WARDSBORO, Vt. — A woman reported missing with her two daughters waded into a brook carrying one of them and eluded a rescue attempt before mother and child were swept downstream to their deaths, said police, who found the other child’s body Sunday.
Searchers found the bodies of Nicole Waring and her 6- year-old daughter Saturday in Wardsboro Brook. The body of a 2 1/2-year-old daughter was found downstream later.
“For whatever reason, it was a deliberate action,” said Vermont State Police Capt. David Covell, who stopped short of calling it a suicide.
Waring, 40, was reported missing Saturday after she disappeared from her parents’ Wardsboro house with the two girls, the state police said.
An officer spotted her in turbulent, waist-deep water but she plunged into the brook with her daughter in her arms when he reached for her, Covell said.
Waring had been despondent, but police didn’t say why.
