By Associated Press - Tuesday, May 30, 2017

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Autopsies released Tuesday show that two sisters and their three children who were found dead on tribal land in January died of hypothermia.

The FBI says it did not find any evidence of foul play in the deaths of Vanessa George and her two children, Zoe and Chloe, and her sister Leticia George and daughter Haleigh.

Authorities discovered the women and children in a rugged area of the Santa Ana Pueblo. Their damaged truck was found at the end of a dirt road.



The case unfolded when family members asked police to check on the two women and their children. Police arrived at the home they were renting in Albuquerque to find no one there. Cellphones and other belongings were left behind, prompting police to issue a flier about the women’s disappearance.

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