Nova
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Since none of us were there and MacDonald isn't talking about what really happened that night, there is no way to know what transpired. I'm not comfortable speculating and coming up with scenarios that could have occurred. Whatever happened set things in motion and it doesn't really matter because the end result was the destruction of a wife and 2 little girls.
I don't know how human beings can help but speculate as to what triggered such an awful event! If we weren't conditioned by evolution to do so, our species would have died out long ago.
Satch, I knew without question that you had no intention of blaming the victim. I just thought our speculations were accidentally drifting in that direction and I wanted to stop before we went further.
Like you, I've read FV many times and FJ once, but it's been years and, alas, I don't have time to reread them now. But I thought there was testimony (perhaps from Colette's mother?) that Dr. and Mrs. M had quarreled over Colette allowing Kimmy to sleep in the master bedroom precisely because the child wet the bed and Dr. M was left to sleep in the wet spot. (I could very well be wrong, but that is my recollection and I think it was central to the prosecutor's theory.)