Henry Lopez was accused of causing the fire that killed his two children by falling asleep drunk and dropping a lit cigarette, but his lawyers claimed that a defective phone charger caused the fatal event.
Prosecutors have accused Aleah Newell of stabbing her grandfather more than 10 times, before fatally stabbing her 7-month-son and scalding him in the bathtub, then hurling her 2-year-old child out an 11th floor window.
Lucien Johnston allegedly began stabbing his great-grandparents in a car after getting into an argument with them, but his younger brother wrestled the pocket knife away from him and threw it out the window, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office.
Heather Oliver has been charged with neglect after claiming to have discovered her young son had climbed into the washer and somehow turned it on. When asked by police about his mother, the boy described her as "not nice."