Stunning words of Arizona mom, 22, as cops arrived to arrest her for murdering her three young children are revealed in newly-released bodycam footage

Newly released assemblage camera footage revealed nan shocking words an Arizona mother told constabulary erstwhile they discovered nan murdered bodies are her 3 young children.

Rachel Henry, past 22 years old, was arrested successful January 2020 for smothering her kids while singing them lullabies.

Investigators said nan mother confessed to killing her one-year-old daughter, three-year-old boy and seven-month-old babe girl.

Police assemblage camera footage from nan fateful nighttime obtained by AZ Family shows Henry telling officers she was readying for her family's early and tried to blasted nan kid's begetter for their deaths.

'He could ne'er grip nan babies, but nary 1 would... I conscionable thought they were sleeping,' Henry said.

'I put them down to return a nap and I didn't cheque connected them and I thought they were sleeping.'

Officers were called to nan Phoenix location adjacent 24th Street and Baseline Road connected January 21, 2020 erstwhile a comparative recovered nan kids unconscious.

'They're saying nan mother put nan kids down for a nap pinch immoderate benignant of medication, each nether 3 years old,' nan usability said.

At nan scene, Henry told constabulary she thought nan kids were sleeping and that she had been readying for their future.

'I was going to get my driver's license, I was going to get a occupation truthful I could get my ain spot truthful nan babies would beryllium fine,' she said.

Henry - now 26 years aged - has pleaded not blameworthy to execution charges pinch a proceedings scheduled for March 2025. If convicted, prosecutors are seeking nan decease penalty.

According to police, Henry admitted smothering nan children starting pinch her one-year-old girl by placing her hands complete nan girl's rima and chemoreceptor until she stopped moving.

Henry said nan woman kicked while she was being smothered successful beforehand of her three-year-old brother, who screamed 'no' and punched her but to nary avail. 

She told officers that she near nan girl's assemblage astatine nan backmost of nan location and chased her boy astir until 2 relatives arrived astatine nan property.

As they sat successful nan surviving room, Henry caught nan boy and took him upstairs connected nan pretense of putting him to furniture earlier besides smothering him.

Investigators opportunity nan boy pinched and scratched her arsenic he died, but was incapable to prevention himself.

She past went to find nan seven-month-old girl, gave her a vessel to provender connected until she fell asleep, past smothered her arsenic well.

Henry claimed she sung lullabies to each 3 children while they were dying.

She past placed each 3 bodies connected nan sofa 'as if they were sleeping'. Police were called to nan spot immoderate clip later to reports of unspecified 'trouble'.