By Taylor Cramer, The Post Independent

Claudia Camacho-Duenas, a Glenwood Springs resident, was declared not guilty by reason of insanity for the 2021 stabbing deaths of her two children. The ruling, handed down on Monday by 9th Judicial Court Judge Denise Lynch, brings a close to a case that has gripped Garfield County for nearly two years.

Camacho-Duenas, 39, faced charges including two counts of first-degree murder and one count of child abuse under a knowing and reckless cause.

In a written decision, Judge Lynch ordered that Camacho-Duenas “be held for care and psychiatric treatment.”

The stabbing deaths occurred two days before the New Year holiday, when police were called at 2:34 p.m. Dec. 30, 2021 to the report of the stabbing incident at the Machebeuf Apartments on Soccer Field Road in West Glenwood, directly across from Glenwood Springs Middle School.

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