The unthinkable tragedy to children dead after being locked in a hot pole.

The children's mother said she'd been checking on her children who were playing in a

back room, but around four o'clock she couldn't find them.

Whenever she found them inside the car, she said one of the kids actually had gotten

herself on in the car keys and had them in her hand and locked themselves in.

It was 96 degrees outside when their mother found them.

Investigators say she had to break a window to get to the children, but by the time she

did that, they were already unresponsive and they were pronounced dead shortly after.

This is crime stories with Nancy Grace.

Of course, everybody's distraught.

I mean, it's, it's, this is horrible.

It's still unclear how long the kids were stuck inside the car.

It's the extremely heartbreaking.

And what they're trying to do is figure out how a 16-month-old and a two-year-old managed

to lock themselves inside.

Two children dead having been locked in a hot car as temperature soar to nearly 100 degrees

outside had to be 120, 130 inside that car.

A 16-month-old baby boy, a two-year-old little girl dead, say police.

I mean, it's, he Grace, this is crime stories.

Thank you for being with us.

You know, Alan, after the Justin Ross Harris hot car death where baby Cooper died inside

the hot car while daddy, quote, he worked inside.

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