An Arizonan mother is facing charges of murder after police have found her two children dead in a California hotel room.

Marilyn Edge, 42, from Scottsdale, Arizona, has been charged with two counts of murder after her Saturday night release from a hospital after being admitted for injuries sustained after several attempts at killing herself. She is currently behind bars at the Santa Ana jail.

Edge was found by police officers in a parking lot near a mall in Costa Mesa, CA Saturday afternoon, after crashing her car into the protective poles that envelop an electric box. Costa Mesa sergeant Tim Starn has said that it was clearly "an intentional act."

Deemed mentally unstable, Edge had refused to unlock her doors to the police officers who were attempting to get her out of her vehicle. She had also subsequently coiled an electrical cord around her neck in an attempt to take her own life, causing police officers to smash in a window in order to break her out.

But as paramedics were about to take her to the Hoag Hospital on Newport Beach to have her treated for injuries, she brought up the Santa Ana hotel room and her two children. Authorities have gone to the Hampton Inn & Suites to investigate and made a chilling discovery of the two children: a girl, 10, and a boy, 13, dead in a room at the third floor. No weapons have been found at the scene, and the children's cause of death is still uncertain and under investigation. Nevertheless, authorities have been treating it as a homicide. Their mother Marilyn is due for an arraignment in court on Tuesday.

It is unclear what Marilyn Edge and her two children were doing in California. The children's father, who lives out of state, was not notified of their deaths until Sunday.