BENNINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - Court documents reveal a Massachusetts woman confessed to strangling her two young children before driving to Vermont and attempting suicide.

Janette MacAusland, 49, appeared via video in Rutland court Monday afternoon, facing a fugitive from justice charge after spending the weekend in the Marble Valley Correctional Facility.

Police found the bodies of MacAusland’s 6-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son in her bed at her home in Wellesley, Massachusetts, late Friday night.

Court documents reveal MacAusland showed up at her aunt’s house in Bennington Friday night, a three-hour drive from Wellesley. MacAusland was allegedly hysterical, covered in blood and had a gash on her neck.

Police say she told her aunt that she killed her kids and tried to take her own life. Her aunt also reported that MacAusland said she drove to the Quechee Gorge Bridge and tried to jump off, but couldn’t.

When Bennington police arrived, they say MacAusland admitted to the murders. Officers say she had a holiday photo of the family with her.

“Never could I have imagined that she would do something like this. She seemed to just deeply love her children like any other mother that I’ve come across,” said Cale Darrah, the family’s babysitter, speaking with WBZ in Boston.

MacAusland will remain behind bars after agreeing to be moved back to Massachusetts.

“She wishes to waive her extradition rights,” said Jeff Rubin, MacAusland’s attorney. “She’s decided that the best thing is to get back to Massachusetts as soon as possible and address these charges.”

A motive is unclear, but a legal analyst says MacAusland and her husband were in the process of getting a divorce and a third party was beginning to investigate as part of the custody process.