And we would have never thought that was even remotely possible." She ended up having, of course, a psychotic break. "People are quick to blame, but people forget she was a mother, she was a daughter, she was a sister, she was a friend," he said. He says she was much more than her mental illness. Even through his grief, Ken Lambert doesn't villianize his sister-in-law for the death of his children. The tragedy left Ken and Danielle Lambert of Brentwood, New Hampshire, confronting the issues of mental illness and suicide. Marci, who led them into the road, was their mother Danielle's twin sister. Kaleigh was 5 and Shane was 4 when they died that night. Marci Thibault with her niece Kaleigh and nephew Shane. "It was clearly a severe mental illness that made what happened happen, and it was not Marci in her own mind," said Ken Lambert, the father of the two children. Investigators determined Thibault deliberately walked the children into the traffic. She was supposed to take them to her home in Bellingham for a sleepover. The woman was 39-year-old Marci Thibault. A woman carried two small children into the middle of the interstate. Nearly eight years ago, the news was filled with reports of a tragedy on Route 495 in Lowell. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) This article is more than 6 years old. Steve Mongeau (left), the executive director of Samaritans, and Ken Lambert (right).
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