What a sad outcome. I managed to stay down the middle in this thing. I did that because I tried to think of what I would want for myself or if someone I was close to were in a situation similar to this one, without being guilty of murder in the end of course. I would hope people could stay objective if there was so little information about what happened. I would hope there wouldn't be an immediate rush to judgment I guess. I don't know, I think there was a big part of my hoping that this was that one case when everything, the guilty party, the circumstances and the outcome were different than all the others like it. That just wasn't the case. Not only is it so very sad for the families and the child, this behavior, this type of crime is becoming so common. There was a recent article that discussed the large increase in the amount of "familicides" being committed and how concerned the FBI is about this fact. I will try to find the article again shortly. I think the one thing I can be thankful for is the knowledge the baby is safe and with family. That is not the way these things usually seem to go in my opinion.
The charges are very interesting. I think one thing I need to understand is, the difference between the "formal" charges, that they mentioned will be made in the coming days or weeks and what I can only assume to be the "informal" charges that were immediately made? I paid close attention to the wording the police chief used. It seems like he tries to communicate more than anyone realizes by using certain words. He was very confident when he mentioned the cell phone data and other data being very important. And, I can't help but feel someone else was very involved with everything. We may find out this entire situation had been planned for some time. My one take that differs from the thinking that someone may have been asked to do this, they declined and then provided information to LE. I believe that LE knows someone was involved and they are trying to find whoever it is. I would be willing to bet the second person involved took the body out of state after she was killed. Someone, whether PF knew this person or not, had one job to do and that was to get the body and other key evidence out of state. It is possible this other person accidentally turned her phone on when they were in or near Gooding or they did do it intentionally to throw LE off. Either way, I believe there is another, very guilty, person out there that will be found soon.
My sympathies go out to the families. None of this makes sense. I don't understand why human beings keep doing this kind of thing to other human beings.