Mom who smothered her 3 daughters in 1998 found suitable for parole
02/24/2026 2:26 pm PST
DALY CITY, Calif. (TCN) -- A woman who taped the mouths and feet of her three young daughters and smothered them to death has been found suitable for parole, authorities say.
On March 23, 1998, Megan Hogg killed her three daughters, ages 2, 3, and 7, by taping their mouth and feet and smothering them, KRON reports. According to the prosecution, Hogg’s motivation was her belief that the three girls loved their grandmother, who was their caretaker at the time, more than they loved her.
Patch.com reports the girls’ bodies were found by their grandmother in a bedroom of their home. Hogg had attempted to take her own life by drinking a mixture of hot chocolate, Vicodin, codeine, and Tylenol. She survived and pleaded no contest to the murders. She was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.
On Feb. 20, a parole hearing was conducted for Hogg, 53, KRON reports. Seven of her family members were in attendance to support her release, and three family members from the girls’ father’s side were in attendance, with two of them opposing her release. The third family member deferred to the parole board’s discretion. The parole board found her suitable for release.
The Feb. 20 hearing was Hogg’s fifth hearing since 2018. That year, the parole board found her suitable for early release. Family members and the district attorney attorney’s office pleaded to then-Gov. Jerry Brown to reverse the decision. At the time, KRON reported Damali Ross, the aunt of the victims, said that the decision was “like ripping the Band-Aid off a wound that never healed.”
Brown reversed the decision, and at later hearings for Hogg in 2019, 2021, and 2023, she was denied parole. KRON reports that the parole board’s decision will be sent to California Gov. Gavin Newsom for final review.
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