Police Identify 3 Kids Phoenix Mom Confessed To Smothering

PHOENIX, AZ — Phoenix police released the names of three children found dead in their home Monday — and whose mother confessed to killing them: Zane Henry, 3; Miraya Henry, 2 next week; and baby girl Catalaya Rios, 7 months. Rachel Henry, 22, was booked Tuesday on three counts of first-degree murder.

In a police probable cause statement, NBC News reported, Henry confessed that she had smothered her children and then put them on a couch in the family home’s living room so that it looked like they were asleep. She kept what she had done to herself, she told police, so that the 30-year-old father and a female relative age 49 in the house at the time of the killings didn’t know about the murders.

Henry, a police report said, “had a methamphetamine addiction and had been acting strange the past several days.” Her court appearance Tuesday revealed her children were previously removed from her home, according to azfamily.com.

If convicted, Henry would receive at least one life-in-prison sentence per count, according to a court prosecutor.

Henry's bail is set at $3 million.