Who was Andrea Langhorst? Florida mom dies of meth overdose after killing 3-yr-old twins
BREVARD, FLORIDA: Andrea Langhorst, 35, a Florida mother was found decomposing with her 3-year-old twins Olivia and Adam Dryer on March 20, at approximately 10.50 pm, in her car parked at an apartment complex in Melbourne, news channel WPTV reported. Langhorst had killed her children before taking her own life, according to a report by the Brevard County Medical Examiner's Office.
The medical examiner found that Langhorst died by suicide after overdosing on a combination of methamphetamine and cocaine intoxication. Her two children's deaths were both caused by methamphetamine and ruled homicides, the report stated. And, neither child had any external trauma or any sign of physical abuse. Langhorst was found sitting in the driver's seat of the vehicle while her two children's bodies were seated in the back seats.
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The mother and the twins, who were from Fort Pierce, had not been seen alive in 11 days before their bodies were found. Langhorst’s father, Randy Langhorst, previously told reporters that he had not spoken to his daughter since March 11 and had contacted the police to help find her. He speculated at the time that drugs may have played a role in the deaths and said he was shocked and devastated after hearing about the deaths.
“I just know they were in the car in the heat of Florida for a few days,” Langhorst told People magazine. “We didn’t have to identify the bodies, the police were able to do it with the photographs we gave them. I can’t imagine myself or my ex-wife having to do that.”
"We were looking for her and hadn’t heard anything from her,” he said. “That was unusual for her. We wouldn’t have daily contact with her, but this was a while. She was a free spirit, smart as a whip, beautiful, but lived her life to the beat of her own drummer. It’s just a tragedy.”
The mother and children were discovered deceased after a passerby called 911 to report a “bad stench” coming from the parked vehicle with fogged-up windows. Police said it appeared the family was living transiently out of the vehicle along the east coast of Florida. “We don’t have any information about how long they were there,” MPD spokesperson Lieutenant Shaun Hill said at the time the bodies were identified. “But she was living out of her car.”
Andrea Langhorst lacked a permanent address at the time she and her children died. The twins’ father is currently in the Brevard County Jail awaiting trial in an unrelated case, according to Florida Today. The grieving father said his daughter occasionally stayed at Airbnb rentals and that he had tried to convince her to bring the twins over to stay with him. But, he said, she adamantly resisted the idea. “It was final,” he told Florida Today. “It was her decision. We didn’t exactly approve of her lifestyle. Everything is hindsight, but I’ll be kicking my (butt) for the rest of my life. All I can think about are those babies.”
Langhorst who spoke to WPTV in March and said that his daughter, who had several drug arrests on her rap sheet — was “smart as a whip” and a “free spirit” who “lived her life to the beat of her own drummer.” He also said his grand twins were his daughter's "pride and joy". “All I can think is that maybe…maybe the car was running and she fell asleep, maybe the fumes overwhelmed them. I don’t know", he said.