Mother in drownings ‘loving, caring’

As Kootenai County investigators await autopsy results and try to piece together how a 25-year-old woman and her two little boys ended up in a car submerged in Fernan Lake, her brother described her Friday as a “loving, caring person and a wonderful mother.” Ed Maki said his family hasn’t been told by law enforcement authorities what happened to his sister, Misty Phelps, or her boys, 1-year-old Tristan Phelps and 2-year-old Riley Phelps. Autopsy results won’t be available for several weeks. The bodies were retrieved by divers on Thursday after a witness fishing on the North Idaho lake reported the vehicle in the lake. Phelps worked at the Coeur d’Alene Press for three years in the production department, Publisher Larry Riley said/SR. More here. (KHQ courtesy photo: Tristan, 1, and Riley, 2)