Archive for June 27th, 2007

We have three different stories in the past few weeks that have national media attention.

Bobby Cutts, Jr. is accused of killing Jessie Davis, the mother of his son Blake and Blake’s soon to be little sister Chloe. Chloe’s death, unfortunately, was incidental to her mother’s death. Blake was physically unharmed in the incident.

Chris Benoit, a pro wrestler, apparently smothered his son, strangled his wife, and then, a few days later, hung himself in his exercise room.

Chris Vaughan is accused of killing his wife and children in their SUV while on the way to a water park. The story goes that they stopped on an access road so Vaughan could fix the roof rack. Then, says Vaughan, his wife Kimberly took out a gun and shot him in the leg. He says he ran off for help. When he got back Kimberly and the children were dead.

Different endings, different motives, different stories, but so many people’s lives have been turned upside down.

In the first case, the death of the mother meant the death of the child. In the second, the death of the child may have then resulted in the death of the mother and the self induced death of the father. The third case may have been an attempt to “wipe the slate clean” and avoid paying alimony and child support.

I was thinking about the third case. If my husband and I were in the truck with the three kids on our way somewhere and stopped in a semi-secluded area to fix something and I had taken out a gun and shot him in the leg, he wouldn’t have run away. He would have done whatever he needed to do to get that gun away from me. If he were the one with the gun he would have to kill me first and fast because I would do all I could to get the gun away from him. Neither one of us would leave the children at the mercy of an obviously unhinged adult.

My prayers go out to the families of these victims.

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