Mother and child deaths remain a mystery

Published: Friday, June 22 2007 1:14 p.m. MDT

ST. GEORGE — Police say preliminary autopsy results provided no answers to determining what killed a 23-year-old mother who was bathing her 2-month-old child.

"There is nothing preliminarily that has shown any reason for the cause of death," St. George Police Sgt. Craig Harding said Friday.

The Utah State Medical Examiner's Office provided St. George police with preliminary results, but is still conducting autopsies and toxicology tests on the bodies of Aneka Flores and her daughter, Catalina. Police have not made any rulings on the cause of the deaths, but said it appears the baby girl drowned.

Aneka Flores' husband came home from work on Tuesday to find her hunched over the tub, dead. The baby was found face down in several inches of water in the tub.

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