Woman who killed her daughter and two grandkids

A woman accused of killing her daughter and two grandchildren before committing suicide believed she was freeing seven-year-old Xavier Neff from hell, her journal reveals.

Nilda Sheffield killed herself after fatally shooting daughter Elizabeth Flores, Xavier Neff and Sofia Chiddo, aged two, in Greenacres, Florida, last year, police said.

Authorities recently closed the case and Sheffield's journal has been made public, revealing her belief that she would meet Xavier after they were reincarnated, theSun Sentinel reported. 

Sheffield, 53, shot her daughter in the back of the head while the 30-year-old was asleep in their home, according to court documents cited by the local newspaper.

Xavier, who Sheffield believed had psychic abilities, died instantly after she shot him in the kitchen the same day on June 27, 2015.

The grandmother was unaware that Sofia had survived a bullet behind her ear and Sheffield killed herself in the living room before the toddler bled to death, leaving bloody footprints throughout the home, investigators found.

The murder suicide rocked the quiet neighborhood, and one year later, Sheffield's journal reveals the disturbing thoughts she had despite loving her grandson dearly.

Sheffield believed Xavier was a special child, and recounted one instance where he predicted his mother was pregnant before Flores knew she was carrying Sofia.

She also wrote: 'No one will ever love Xavier as much as I do. I don't know how to breathe without him, my heart is so heavy.'

But the 53-year-old also also wrote about instances of domestic violence between Flores and her fiance David Chiddo, as well as a custody battle between her daughter and Xavier's father, Derek Neff.

Chiddo was accused of hitting Flores in front of their daughter, but the charges were dropped after investigators concluded Sofia was properly looked after.

Sheffield also told people she thought Xavier was mistreated by Neff, who had primary custody of his son.

Neff denied the accusations, saying Flores had fed her mother lies about him.

In the journal, the grandmother compared herself to Abraham of the Old Testament, who was asked to sacrifice his son in the Bible.

Sheffield wrote: 'I have asked God to please stop me if this is not the right thing to do.

'But in my heart I hear him saying You Must … And like Abraham I will show my faith to God.

'Xavier is the sacrificial lamb. I will free him from the hell he did not ask to be born into, and I pray to God he returns to a better world with better parents.'

According to John Argudo, the chaplain to the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office, Sheffield lacked 'proper spiritual guidance and insight' and was trapped in an 'abyss of confusion and desperation', documents cited by the Sentinel reveal.

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