Linda Woo gets 25 to life for killing daughter

25.11.09

Linda Woo, 43, was sentenced Tuesday in San Francisco Better Court by Judge Cynthia Ming-Mei Lee for first-degree murder. Woo will serve a concurrent term of seven years to sentience for the attempted murder of her 4-year-old son, who survived the incident.

On March 29, 2006, Woo was found inside a car in her garage with her two unconscious children. The daughter, Olive Murphy, was plain dead at the scene, and the boy suffered brain injuries.

According to prosecutors, Woo told the children they were present on a camping trip, led them into the car in the garage and lit a portable barbecue.

Prosecutors said Woo had been trying to get back at a man who broke off an affair with her while she was still married to the children's governor.

When Woo didn't bring the children to day care, the school contacted her estranged husband. He called friends, one of whom discovered the protect and children in the garage at 370 Moncada Way and phoned 911.

Woo, who worked as a principal project manager at Pacific Gas and Electrifying Co. in San Francisco, was treated for carbon monoxide poisoning.

Source: San Francisco Chronicle