It truly broke my heart to learn the boy's body had washed ashore. There were also other things indicative of them having been there, namely that bottle of wine she's been documented to have purchased. It was re-corked and half-empty (that's what they're reporting, I mean.)
Kind of seems like she was planning to take her own life somehow, and like some parents who I absolutely cannot understand, thought it would be better for the child to end his life, as well.
I think she bought the bottle of wine to kind of ease her nerves and make it a bit easier for her to go through with. Kind of wondering if maybe they went out in a boat and she somehow knocked him unconscious then pushed him into the water. Relatively easy, that, but I'm curious as to how exactly she died. Perhaps she had weights on her and simply slid into the water, which is why so many other things have made it to shore yet her body still has not.
Unlike a lot of people, I don't speak badly of people with suicidal tendencies, and I don't consider someone who's taken his life to be a coward. Not even close. It happened in my immediate family, and it's nothing like people seem to think it is. When I lost someone to suicide, I was attending his funeral service when some woman I'd never even seen was whispering (loudly) to someone else: "Well, at least he WANTED to go! I don't see that's anything to grieve about, unless you worry about where he's going AFTER he does it! Thou shalt not kill, and all that!"
It's madness and it's unfair.
What it does to the family... the "what if's" and the "this is SO my fault" feelings of guilt, and that's on top of the grief of having lost someone so close to you without warning. My family will never have any resemblance to what it was before.
The thing that IS wrong, to me, is when a parent kills their own children for reasons like: "I didn't want him to have to go through life without a father (or mother)... it's always something like they were doing it in the better interests of the child. I think that's the coldest, most narcissistic thing going.
The evidence for this case seems to be (literally) washing ashore at a steady rate, and I feel confident we'll eventually know what truly happened.