Catherine Hoggle

More than eight years after Sarah and Jacob Hoggle went missing, murder charges have been dropped against their mother Catherine Hoggle. News4’s Pat Collins explains how the ruling to drop the charges hinged on state law.

Catherine Hoggle is suspected of killing two of her three children, Jacob and Sarah, after they disappeared from Montgomery County in 2014. The children, who were just 2 and 3 years old at the time, have never been found.

A judge said Thursday he is not ready to determine whether a Maryland mother is competent to stand trial in the murders of two of her children, because he is new to the case.

Catherine Hoggle is suspected of killing her two youngest children after they disappeared from Montgomery County in 2014.