Four found dead from carbon monoxide

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Beyond sad, only rented there a few weeks.  Buy detectors everyone. Fire Dept

recommended Kidde plug ins.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/article_961cade0-0424-11e0-8\

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ST. CLAIR • Four people found dead Thursday

inside a home at 1585 North Commercial Avenue likely died of carbon

monoxide poisoning, St. Clair police chief Bill Hammack said.

S. Sohn, 29, her boyfriend, G. Yoder, 27, and his

two children, Devin Yoder, 4, and Tessa Yoder, 3, were found

Thursday afternoon after friends went to check on the family,

police said.

Yoder, an auto mechanic, had only moved into the rental

home about two weeks ago, said Lauri Schroeder, a Yoder family

friend who lives in St. Clair.

When Yoder failed to show up to work for several days,

friends went by the home. They looked through the window and saw a

body, then called police, who forced their way into the home.

" The only thing that needs to be said is: 'Use a detector,' "

Schroeder said. " We're going to work to make an awareness

campaign. "

Schroeder said she would like to see it a state law in Missouri

that homes be equipped with carbon monoxide detectors.

Family members told police Sohn and Yoder were sick early

in the week, complaining of nausea. Family members last saw them

alive on Tuesday, according to Rulo, an aunt of the two

children.

" ( Yoder's mother) thought it was food poisoning actually, "

Rulo said. " She took them over some Pepto Bismol and ate dinner

with them and then hadn't heard from them for two days. "

When police arrived, the pilot light on the gas furnace was out,

and the temperature inside the home was only 54 degrees, said

Hammack, the police chief.