LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas mother whose estranged husband is charged with killing the couple's two sons before fleeing with their two daughters is thanking the people who helped track down the girls nearly 400 miles (643.74 kilometers) away in Oklahoma.

Tara Jackson's attorney, Gary Nelson, also described the deaths of 14-year-old Logan Jackson and 12-year-old Austin Jackson as "traumatic" in a statement released Wednesday. He asked for privacy "during the next very few hard few weeks and months that Tara and her family have ahead of them."

The Leavenworth County Sheriff's Office said s...