Theresa Riggi

Theresa Riggi is a woman from Scotland who killed her children while involved in a fierce custody battle.  Austin and Gianluca, who were eight year old twins and her five year old daughter, Cecilia.

She has died in an apparent suicide at Rampton hospital in Nottinghamshire, a nororious prison hospital where she was serving a 16 years for the murder of her children.

Angela Hamilton attacked Theresa in her cell for what she did to her children which left her bloody, missing hair and permanently scarred on her face.

This case garnered international attention. Riggi insisted that the family court system caused her to kill her children. She kept a high opinion of herself at all times even boasting that she was a perfect parent.

Her cause of death was bronchial pneumonia. She had tried to kill herself unsuccessfully the day of the murders.