The jury of nine men and three women at Coleraine Crown Court also heard how Mrs Stewart destroyed a garden hosepipe which was used to gas the victims while they slept.

BBC: Stewart admits she was part of plan to kill husband

It's been a century since Josiah and Sarah Moore, their four children and two visiting children were hacked to death with an ax while they slept, and the tiny town where they lived in Iowa has never been the same.

FORBES: Luther College

The guns perched on the hills surrounding Sarajevo have dismantled him just as they have the Opera Hall, just as they have his family home in the night while his father and mother slept, just as they will, eventually, everything.

NPR: Excerpt: 'The Cellist Of Sarajevo'

Three hours later, somewhere over Iowa or Indiana or some other equally flat, patchwork landscape, while my wife slept and my kids watched a movie they'd never be allowed to see at home, I hauled my laptop out and fired it up.

FORBES: The Laptop Lament

She tried to pretend that it was any other night under the hill when they would roll and wrestle with each other while the boy slept next to them, oblivious.

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