The Arizona dad who killed himself to dodge decades in prison for leaving his baby daughter to die in a hot car took his life with a haunting echo of his heinous crime — suffocating himself in a car parked at his home.

Christopher Scholtes, 38, was found dead in his car in the garage of the Phoenix home he shares with his wife, Dr. Erika Scholtes, around 5 a.m. on Nov. 5, hours after he is believed to have killed himself the night before.

Exactly how he died has yet to be confirmed, but he is believed to have died of carbon monoxide poisoning, the Maricopa County Medical Examiner told the Daily Mail .

Scholtes’ death is shockingly similar to how his daughter, little 2-year-old Parker, slowly baked to death in his car after he left her in their driveway for more than three hours o

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