Air Force wife, kids found dead

(EXCERPT) By Charlie Coon, Stars and Stripes European edition,
Saturday, July 19, 2003

The wife and two daughters of a Ramstein Air Base noncommissioned
officer were found dead Thursday along a forest road near Hauptstuhl,
Germany, about 10 miles west of the base.

Christine Staggs apparently killed the two girls and then herself,
according to Wolfgang Schaefer, Landstuhl police chief.

“That [theory is based on four letters that we found that are
addressed to some of her relatives,” Schaefer said. “She [Staggs
explains why and what.”

Christine Staggs, 39, and her daughters Vivian Staggs, 12, and Savanna
Kjonaas, 3, were discovered at 5:20 p.m. by two German policemen. The
three were reported missing Monday night by the airman, a master
sergeant whose name was not released.

Schaefer declined to say how Staggs and her daughters died. He said
they had been dead for several days.

“What finally made them die cannot be said now because th...

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