--- description: Four children and one adult man were found dead Thursday morning in Loganville, just outside Atlanta. title: Police Say 4 Children, 1 Man Found Stabbed to Death at Home image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1551da58f6ecf4ab/6988d4a60b72e3addb6ee835/170706_loganville-stabbing-2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Crime](/tag/crime/) ## Crime Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Mother Charged With 5 Counts of Murder for Loganville Stabbings by [Emily Weyrauch](/author/emily-weyrauch/) ## Emily Weyrauch Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Updated: Dec 13, 2023 6:04 AM CUTPublished: Jul 6, 2017 3:53 PM CUT  The outside of the house in Loganville where the bodies were found on Thursday, July 6. The outside of the house in Loganville where the bodies were found on Thursday, July 6.Courtesy of Gwinnett County Police Department by [Emily Weyrauch](/author/emily-weyrauch/) ## Emily Weyrauch Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Updated: Dec 13, 2023 6:04 AM CUTPublished: Jul 6, 2017 3:53 PM CUT Police on Thursday charged a 33-year-old Georgia woman with five counts of murder after four of her children and her husband were found stabbed to death at their home in Loganville, a suburb of Atlanta. A fifth child survived with serious injuries. Isabel Martinez is charged with five counts of malice murder, five counts of murder, and six counts of aggravated assault. She is being held at the county jail without bond. The victims were found after Gwinnett County Police received a 911 call from a woman inside the house early Thursday morning. Police believe Martinez made the phone call. The adult male victim, who was in his mid 30s, was the children’s biological father. The children killed in the incident all appear to be under the age of 10, according to the police. Letty Perez, a neighbor of the family, [told WSB-TV Atlanta](http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/gwinnett-county/man-several-children-dead-in-gwinnett-stabbing/551248138 "undefined") that Martinez seemed “normal” and “like a regular mother.” Perez added that Martinez’s father had recently died. “She said her dad passed away months ago, she was in depression and we go to her house and pray sometimes for her dad,” said Perez. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4847245/loganville-murder-children-mother-georgia/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4847245/loganville-murder-children-mother-georgia/"},"headline":"Mother Charged With 5 Counts of Murder for Loganville Stabbings","datePublished":"2017-07-06T15:53:03.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T06:04:36.000Z","description":"Four children and their father were found stabbed to death Thursday morning in their home in Loganville, a suburb of Atlanta","url":"https://time.com/4847245/loganville-murder-children-mother-georgia/","keywords":["Crime","Murder","police","georgia","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1551da58f6ecf4ab/6988d4a60b72e3addb6ee835/170706_loganville-stabbing-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Emily Weyrauch","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/emily-weyrauch/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1551da58f6ecf4ab/6988d4a60b72e3addb6ee835/170706_loganville-stabbing-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"170706_Loganville stabbing 2","caption":"The outside of the house in Loganville where the bodies were found on Thursday, July 6.","creditText":"Courtesy of Gwinnett County Police Department","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":"/tag/crime/","name":"Crime"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4847245/loganville-murder-children-mother-georgia/","name":"Mother Charged With 5 Counts of Murder for Loganville Stabbings"}}]}] ```