Kimberlee Singler, 35, who was wanted in the United States, was arrested on Saturday in the United Kingdom, where she had fled. Colorado Springs police confirmed his arrest Sunday evening without giving details and are expected to hold a news conference in the coming hours. The mother of four disappeared on December 23 when police suspected her of being instrumental in the deaths of two of her children.
Four days earlier, the 30-year-old had called the emergency services because of a break-in with a catastrophic outcome. When Colorado Springs police responded to his 911 call on Dec. 19, they found Singler and his 11-year-old daughter injured, while his daughter Elianna, 9, and son Aden Wentz, 7, were deceased. The two injured people were treated at the scene and then taken to a local hospital. Details of the children's deaths were kept secret by a court order.
However, the investigations launched to identify the burglars responsible for the crimes quickly showed that the mother's report of a burglary was “unfounded”. In the meantime, the mother was nowhere to be found.
Summoned to a hearing the day after her fatal act
On December 26, an arrest warrant was issued for his arrest on charges of first-degree murder, attempted murder and child abuse. A police spokesman said she was initially treated as a burglary victim and cooperated with investigators before escaping. Police believed she had left the state but was still in the United States.
According to the British newspaper Chron, Kimberlee Singler was easily arrested in London by the National Crime Agency in the affluent Kensington district. She is due to appear at a Westminster court for an extradition hearing today.
Singler fought over custody of her children with her ex-husband Kevin Wentz, from whom she had been separated since 2018 and divorced since 2020. In a statement on Facebook in which he reveals the first names of his deceased children, the father claims that his ex-wife had accused him of domestic violence and child abuse. A Larimer County court found the allegations unfounded and ordered the mother to pay Wentz's legal fees.
She also had to give him time with his children to make up for the time lost in reviewing the complaint. She was supposed to have entrusted them to him on December 16 through January 18, the date on which a new child custody review hearing was scheduled. Having failed to return the children to their father, she was summoned to a summary hearing on December 20. The day after his fatal act.