More Information on Pierceton Family's Death

Investigators say members of a Pierceton family had probably been dead for two days before they were found in a horse trailer in Missouri. As Q101 first reported yesterday, 40-year-old Jeffrey Cox, his 17-year-old daughter, Kayla and his 14-year-old son, Derrick, all died of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. They had been sleeping in the front of a horse trailer while a generator ran in the back. A 39-year-old woman who was traveling with the Cox family was unconscious for most of the two-day period but apparently inhaled less of the poisonous gas, because she was sleeping in a higher berth. She eventually woke up enough to get out of the trailer and call for help. The group had gone to Missouri for a weekend horse sale.