New information about the deaths of two Berks County children last month reveals they had been found hanged in their basement.

Investigators are now looking for clues in a video game console and other electronics, and they are hoping to find a dog that used to belong to their mother, the Allentown Morning Call is reporting.

Brother and sister Connor Snyder, 8, and Brinley Snyder, 4, died Sept. 26 at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest, three days after paramedics were called to their family’s home in Albany Township.

Police at the time said they had been found with unspecified injuries. A spokesperson from the state Department of Human Services confirmed to Cathleen Palm, founder of the Center for Children’s Justice, that assessment and ongoing case management services were provided to the children through Berks County Children and Youth Services.

Search warrants in the case revealed an adult woman who lived in the home found the siblings hanging from a support beam in the basement, near two overturned chairs, with plastic-coated wire cables around their necks, the Morning Call reports.

The Reading Eagle said they were hanging from a dog leash.

Those search warrants also show police want to investigate Connor Snyder’s X-Box gaming system, which he used to view unspecified websites, as well as a cellphone, two iPads and a laptop computer, reports indicate.

For unspecified reasons, police want to weigh a husky-pit bull mix the mother used to own, but had given away, according to reports.

Investigators were tight-lipped about what they were looking for, saying it remains an ongoing investigation.

“Whenever we are dealing with the unnatural death of a child, it is very emotionally troubling to all of us,” Berks County District Attorney John Adams told the Morning Call. “I believe to have two children perish in the same incident really compounds our concerns and we are looking forward to having some answers. But we need to take our time to determine exactly what happened.”

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