WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - A woman accused of strangling her daughter on a college campus apartment in Purchase, N.Y., told police she did it because the daughter was “disrespectful all the time,” according to court papers made public Thursday.

Police accounts filed with a murder indictment quote Stacey Pagli, 37, as saying that Marissa Pagli, 18, had “pushed my last button.” Police say Pagli admitted to killing her daughter and also tried to kill herself because she said they were “too much baggage” for her husband.

Stacey Pagli is accused of strangling her daughter Feb. 22 in the family’s staff apartment at Manhattanville College. Marissa was a freshman at the school. Her father, John Pagli, was a maintenance supervisor. He found his wife unconscious and his daughter dead.

According to the police account:

When police asked what prompted Marissa to be disrespectful, her mother said, “I asked her where she was going.” She said she told her daughter, “Don’t ever speak to me like that. This will be the last time you speak to me like that.”

She said she choked Marissa with her hands and knew she had killed her.

Pagli expressed regret, saying, “I wish I could take it back, but I can’t. I can’t make it better, she’s not here anymore.”

She also said she killed her daughter and tried to kill herself because they were “too much baggage” for her husband. “Me and Marissa, we ruined his life,” the mother is quoted as saying, without elaborating.

The documents are police accounts of recorded interviews at White Plains Hospital and police headquarters.

Pagli’s lawyer, Allan Focarile, would not comment on the indictment or the police accounts.

Pagli tried to commit suicide by cutting her left wrist and hanging herself on a doorknob, the Westchester district attorney’s office said. Her arraignment is pending.

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ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35, Orlando) — Florida Highway Patrol troopers said a woman and her child are recovering after the mother most likely fell asleep at the wheel and crashed their mini van.

The incident happened in the westbound lane of I-4 before Maitland. Troopers said the woman veered off the highway and crashed into an exit sign. Then, she then took down a fence at the Spring Lake Hills Apartment Complex, crashed into a tree and ended up on the bed of a pickup truck parked at the complex.

Troopers said a total of eight vehicles were damaged when the fence came down. Flying debris also broke out windows. The woman was in the vehicle with her 11-year-old daughter.

When the crash occurred, pick up truck owner Otis Davis was inside his apartment. “Heard a loud noise, woke everyone up. Come outside, looked out the window and saw that there was a car siting on the back of my pickup truck,” he said.

Davis said he tried helping the two but the little girl was hysterical because she was sitting in the car not understanding what happened. “The mom is incoherent because she’s hurt,” Davis said.

Davis said this isn’t the first time this has happened. “About a year ago a similar thing happened to another car coming down I-4. It started coming through the fence and ended up on top of my next door neighbors car. This time it ended up on my car, my pickup,” he said.

Troopers said the mother suffered minor injuries and is recovering at Orlando Regional Medical Center. Her daughter was not injured. Charges are pending.

SOURCE: MYFOX ORLANDO