Her mother found the three girls in a bedroom of the family's home in the Westlake district of Daly City on March 23, 1998. Their mouths and feet had been bound with duct tape, and they had suffocated; prosecutors later said she had sealed their mouths and noses and held each of them to her as she died. Antoinette Marden was seven, Angelique Roberts three and Alexandra Hogg two. Rafik Roberts was the father of the two younger girls, and his sister, Damali Ross, remembered all three as jokers who loved to hug and kiss and were friendly to everyone. The family shared the house with the girls' grandparents. Megan Hogg, twenty-five, had then drunk hot chocolate laced with about forty tablets of codeine, Tylenol, Vicodin and trazodone, meaning to die with them. She survived.
What she meant by it has been argued over ever since, and the two accounts on the record do not fit together. Court records say she did it to spare the girls the problems she had faced in her own life. Prosecutors said she was angry that the children loved their grandmother, who had stepped in to look after them, more than they loved her, and that she killed them to punish her mother for taking over. Patrick Hensley, a Daly City patrol officer at the time and later the city's police chief, said she showed no remorse. "She made it clear that she did not want her daughters being taken away by her mother," he told the Mercury News, "and for that reason, she decided it was best to kill them."
She had been diagnosed with depression two years earlier and was taking antidepressants, and relatives said she suffered complications from an earlier head injury, including frequent seizures.
She pleaded no contest to three counts of first-degree murder, a plea that accepts conviction without admitting the facts, and on September 24, 1999 she was sentenced to twenty-five years to life. She sobbed in court that day; the girls' relatives have always said she was never truly sorry.
On April 10, 2018, after a hearing of about four hours at the women's prison in Chowchilla, Board of Parole Hearings commissioners Terry Turner and Tim O'Hara found her suitable for release, which would have freed her about five years before her minimum term ran out. The girls' paternal family rallied in Daly City to ask Governor Jerry Brown to overrule it. Their aunt, Damali Ross, said the news was "like ripping the Band-Aid off a wound that never healed." The San Mateo County District Attorney's office argued that she had broken prison rules, including dealing drugs, and that twenty years was not enough. Brown reversed the grant four months later. She was denied parole in 2019, 2021 and 2023.
At her fifth hearing, on February 20, 2026, at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla, a panel found her suitable again. She was fifty-three. Seven of her own relatives came to support her release; of three relatives on the girls' father's side, two opposed it and the third deferred to the board. On February 23 the District Attorney's office said it "continues to strongly oppose" her release. The decision went to Governor Gavin Newsom for review. No decision by the governor had been reported by late September 2026.
She intended to die with her children and did not.