Murder-Suicide Zoloft 02/01/2000 New Jersey Postpartum Depression: Mother Kills Baby & Self
 
 Summary:<br><br><div>Ann Tracy, Ph.D., Executive Director of the International Coalition for Drug Awareness, <strong>confirmed that this young mother was taking Zoloft at the&nbsp;time&nbsp;of the murder-suicide.</strong></div><div></div><div>Paragraph 5 reads: &quot;Ladislaw had been taking <strong>antidepressants</strong> to treat her condition, the prosecutor said.&quot;<br />_______________________________________________________________________<br /><br />MOTHER&#39;S DEPRESSION APPARENTLY WAS DEADLY<br />The Record (New Jersey)<br />January 2, 2000<br />Author: The Associated Press; Wire services <br />Estimated printed pages: 1 <br /><img src="../localhost/C_/Program%20Files/Eudora%20Pro/Embedded/735bd71.jpg" alt="[]" width="1" height="1" /> <br /><br />Postpartum depression and the loss of her secretarial job helped drive a woman to kill her 5-month-old daughter before taking her own life, Middlesex County Prosecutor Glenn Berman said. <br /><br />Autopsies on Friday confirmed that Eileen Ladislaw, 42, suffocated her baby, Kaitlyn, with a plastic bag in her crib, and then died of asphyxiation after hanging herself with an extension cord in the garage below the infant&#39;s room, Berman said.<br /><br />The deaths were classified a <strong>murder</strong>-suicide, Berman said.<br /><br />Their husband and father, James Ladislaw, 44, discovered the bodies when he returned home 5:15 p.m. Thursday, Berman said. No suicide note was found.<br /><br />Ladislaw had been taking <strong>antidepressants</strong> to treat her condition, the prosecutor said.<br /><br />She had been laid off Nov. 9 as an executive secretary at TRM Inc., an insurance company in South Plainfield, he said in a report published Saturday.<br /><br />The company&#39;s phone system said it was closed New Year&#39;s Day. A message left was not immediately returned. <br />Edition:&nbsp; All Editions<br />Section:&nbsp; NEWS<br />Page:&nbsp; A6<br />Index Terms: NEW JERSEY<strong>; </strong>BABY<strong>; MURDER; </strong>SUICIDE<strong>; </strong>MENTAL<strong>; </strong>HEALTH <br />Dateline:&nbsp; OLD BRIDGE <br />Copyright 2000 Bergen Record Corp.<br />Record Number:&nbsp; 2047&nbsp;<br /></div> 
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