 and Kellan (left) suffocated to death after falling asleep in their cedar toy chest at night (Picture: GoFundMe) Four-year-old twins who fell asleep together inside a wooden toy chest were found lifeless after the lid shut over them. Aurora and her twin brother Kellan were to put to bed last Friday night by their father, Don Starr, as their mother Sadie Myers worked at night to avoid having a baby-sitter look after them. The twins would often get up in the middle of the night and wake up asleep in other places, according to Myers. 'Friday night, the weird place they decided to snuggle up and go back to sleep was in their cedar toy chest that we use to store all their stuffed animals,' wrote Myers in a Facebook post on Monday. The twins crawled into a cedar toy chest and were found dead the next day after the lid closed over them (Picture: GoFundMe) The twins took out some stuffed animals and left some inside, and fell asleep each with an arm over the other. 'Sometime during their sleep one of them must have moved or kicked during a dream and it caused the lid of this old wooden cedar chest to close…' Myers wrote. 'Something I did not know and I'm sure many others don't know is that most wooden toy chests once closed are AIR TIGHT and also sound proof. 'So as they slept, all snuggled up together, they slowly ran out of oxygen within a couple of hours and passed away.' The twins' heartbroken mother warns parents that cedar toy chests become air tight and soundproof when closed (Picture: GoFundMe) The next morning, Myers panicked after seeing her twins missing from their bed and the family searched frantically for them. One of their older brothers opened the chest. ''Mommy!,' he exclaimed proudly. 'I found them! They are so silly just sleeping in the toy box,'' wrote Myers. 'I went to check and within a few seconds I knew something wasn't right, but I also quickly realized it was already too late. It makes no sense to me and never will.' Sheriff's){kind=link}
NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
Four-year-old twins who fell asleep together inside a wooden toy chest were found lifeless after the lid shut over them.
Aurora and her twin brother Kellan were to put to bed last Friday night by their father, Don Starr, as their mother Sadie Myers worked at night to avoid having a baby-sitter look after them.
The twins would often get up in the middle of the night and wake up asleep in other places, according to Myers.
‘Friday night, the weird place they decided to snuggle up and go back to sleep was in their cedar toy chest that we use to store all their stuffed animals,’ wrote Myers in a Facebook post on Monday.