I bet the restraining order had a lot to do with the rage...it put a legal barrier between her and her daughter, not to mention her and Scott...I wonder if something [more] specific might have caused her to flip out at the exact time she went berserk and killed Michelle.
You can't reason with crazy.
GE is a remorseless psychopath that killed the person she was most angry with, justifying her actions in ways you and I are not capable of, except as writers of fiction, perhaps. Michelle got caught within a vortex she probably had no role in creating.
I think we are interested in this case, partly, because we realize that any of us, our children, or our loved ones are as vulnerable to violence as Michelle was. When a mentally unbalanced person sees us as a threat, for whatever reason, any one of us could be murdered by an animal masquerading as a human being who won't shed one tear--ever. This seems incomprehensible at the same time we are reminded that senseless murders like this happen every single day.
I don't know if Michelle's death could have been prevented: by Giselle's parents, a warning from Scott, from her friends who might have told her to stop listening to her heart, and to run for her life instead, and fast.
I don't know if any of us would do anything differently ourselves, or to wisely advise others as a result of what happened to this young woman.
What have you learned from Michelle's death? Despite my sorrow at how inhumane people can be to one another, perhaps once someone is targeted by the cold, heartless soul of a murderer, their life's focus is to destroy you until they do.
I'm sickened by Michelle's death--she deserved better. At this point, though, I'm damned if I know how it could have been prevented.
But, maybe you do.