American astrologer obsessed with the eclipse stabbed her partner to death and threw her two daughters from her car moving onto the highway. Danielle Johnson presented herself as a “divine healer” and offered “aura purifications” online, as well as readings of the signs of the zodiac.

Police later found the vehicle, which crashed at 160 km/h into a tree along a coastal road. The eldest, aged nine, survived. But his little sister, an eight-month-old infant, was found dead. Eclipses have long been associated with strange end-times prophecies, which scientists say have no basis. Millions of people admired a rare total eclipse on Monday, which crossed North America, revealing a black sun, obstructed by the moon. The phenomenon was visible from the Pacific coast of Mexico to eastern Canada, including Texas, Arkansas, Niagara Falls and New England. This phenomenon was not observable from Los Angeles, which had to make do with a partial eclipse.