Domestic problems drove knife attack on children

The Blanchard family in happier times: Daniel Blanchard in the foreground is dead as is Belika Blanchard Singh (right in second row). Critically injured is Joy Blanchard (left in second row). John Blanchard at right in back row is in police custody. Next to him is his wife Onicka Blanchard who is in the interior.

John Blanchard, who fatally knifed two of his children to death, has told police that he committed the acts because of problems he was experiencing with their mother.

He said also that he had called the woman and told her that he was going to kill the children, and sometime later the woman called back and he related to her what he had done,