Yeah, but at this point I'm just rolling the core relationship around, not trying to get at exactly what clot the rest decided to coagulate around. Chad? Lori? The words of one delivered through the dynamism of the other?
I keep coming back to them being believers as well. But I think what we stumble over, or at least what I stumble over when trying to make sense of them, is that you can't account for religious fervor, or the motivations of broken minds. Alex might be the purest sycophant we've ever seen. If his death is natural, that had to have been one freak galactic alignment of planets to yield that coincidence.
I'm not sure what you're trying to scratch at with the picture. For a person unfamiliar with the case, the picture represents a typical couple on a typical day. It could be Jay and Janet down the street, the Smiths next door, or you and yours on any Wednesday in town. That's the bothersome part. You can look at 'em and smile, not knowing you're staring into pure evil.
The truth is that we all feel a lot of justified anger and outrage at these people, and it is very unlikely that they could do much that we wouldn't criticize them for... manners or no manners, smirk or no smirk, street clothes or prison garb, etc, etc. The only thing that might not draw more criticism is if they gave immediate, full, and remorseful confessions. And then killed themselves. Or spent life in prison. Or were executed.
