Neighbors lit candles and lay stuffed animals Sunday at a makeshift shrine erected at the Germantown home of two toddlers whom police say were killed by their mother and another woman as they tried to exorcise spirits from the children's bodies. Two older siblings, ages 5 and 8, remained hospitalized with stab wounds Sunday, while the women, 28-year-old mother Zakieya Latrice Avery and 21-year-old Monifa Denise Sanford, were held without bail after their arrests Saturday on charges of murder and attempted murder. The older siblings are stable and expected to survive, police said. "Why...
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