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Mother and toddler’s deaths in South Australia investigated as murder-suicide as hopes for missing baby fade

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South Australian police are treating the deaths of a mother and her toddler daughter as a murder-suicide, according to The Guardian. The bodies of thirty-six-year-old Helena Wright and her twenty-three-month-old daughter were recovered from the ocean near Port MacDonnell on Monday. Search efforts for her missing three-month-old son have now shifted to what police call a retrieval effort, as hopes of finding him alive have faded.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/29/sa...

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