A RELATIVE found the bodies of a 23-year-old woman and her four small daughters hanging in a closet in their mobile home yesterday morning, all of them dead but an eight-month-old, who was taken to a hospital, the sheriff said.

WITH a calm and dispassionate voice and a hymn playing in the background, Dena Schlosser confessed to the unthinkable, telling a 911 operator she’d cut off the arms of her baby girl.

A woman with a history of depression told an emergency operator she had cut off the arms of her baby daughter, then waited calmly until police arrived.