"He also sent e-mails to his pastor and others just minutes before the fire, giving instructions on how to handle his end-of-life business, according to Troyer. The sheriff's department has copies of some of the e-mails sent to the attorney, family and friends, saying "he couldn't live with what was going on," Troyer said."
http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/07/justice/washington-powell-case/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
Well, that's fine if
he couldn't live with what was going on, my guess is out of guilt of having to lay his head on his pillow every night knowing what he did to his wife, knowing that he robbed his children of their mother. But his children
could have lived with it, resilient as they often are, they
could have went on with their lives living with their beloved grandparents, went on to blossom into adults and have a bright future. They
should have been allowed to.
WHY DID HE HAVE TO TAKE THEM WITH HIM? How completely selfish and evil even in death.
I am so incredibly angered by this. And then to learn he chopped at them with an axe? They suffered before they died. They were in pain and felt terror and agony. I was praying that they did not and now I know that the last images they witnessed before they departed this earth was their own father chopping at them with an axe? I really wished I would not have clicked on this story right now. I have one more hour of class today and I cannot get that horrific image out of my head. May justice be swift in the court of a higher power.
MOO