--- description: Arizona police said a suburban mother confessed to "intentionally" drowning her twin sons in a bathtub title: Mother Charged With Murdering Her Twin Sons image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd71f53781513a096/698861aa35ba6f77f2c0ef25/mireya-lopez.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Mother Charged With Murdering Her Twin Sons  by [Dan Kedmey](/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 31, 2015 4:16 PM CUT  Mugshot of Mireya Lopez on Aug. 30, 2015. Mugshot of Mireya Lopez on Aug. 30, 2015.Maricopa County Sheriff's Office  by [Dan Kedmey](/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 31, 2015 4:16 PM CUT Arizona police said they were holding a mother on charges of murder after she [confessed to “intentionally” drowning her twin sons](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/local/southwest-valley/breaking/2015/08/30/two-children-critical-found-avondale-tub/71424936/ "undefined") in a bathtub. Emergency responders found Mireya Alejandra Lopez’s twin 2-year-old sons lying unresponsive on a bed, after responding to a family member’s 911 call from inside the house, _The Arizona Republic_ reports. Authorities said Lopez, 22, confessed to drowning her sons and attempting to drown a third child before other members of the household intervened. “We won’t officially say it’s a drowning until they go through an autopsy,” said Avondale police Sgt. Brandon Busse. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4017170/mother-drowns-twin-sons/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4017170/mother-drowns-twin-sons/"},"headline":"Mother Charged With Murdering Her Twin Sons","datePublished":"2015-08-31T16:16:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T10:34:43.702Z","description":"Police said the mother confessed to drowning her 2-year-old sons","url":"https://time.com/4017170/mother-drowns-twin-sons/","keywords":["Crime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd71f53781513a096/698861aa35ba6f77f2c0ef25/mireya-lopez.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Dan Kedmey","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/dan-kedmey/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd71f53781513a096/698861aa35ba6f77f2c0ef25/mireya-lopez.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Mireya-Lopez","caption":"Mugshot of Mireya Lopez on Aug. 30, 2015.","creditText":"Maricopa County Sheriff's Office","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4017170/mother-drowns-twin-sons/","name":"Mother Charged With Murdering Her Twin Sons"}}]}] ```