I wish we knew more about her. Wouldn't she-- if guilty of this--- have to be morbidly cruel to kill her children like that? No smothering or poisoning with sleeping pills---but hanging them from the gallows? Side by side. It is ghastly and so hard to accept.
But as you say, it could bring tremendous sympathy, if people believed her son did it himself.
Most poisons are detectable (and hanging, I believe would be more merciful than a death by poisoning) Sleeping pills would be easier but maybe she knows a lethal dose would cause vomiting and possible survival. I think smothering (of two children) would raise two red flags because delicate mucus membranes often show the results of the pressure that takes to achieve that method of murder. I think that's why LE wanted all electronic devices so quickly in order to perhaps discover some sort of pre-planning through internet searches. I agree, if she killed them by design, hanging was certainly an unusual way to go. I wonder if poor Conner ever did tell CPS he might want to die and she tucked that information away and used it. But, as you say, not knowing anything about her makes it almost impossible for me to confidently guess at what happened.
All I do know is that she began by using SM to announce what was going on in her life and then, it seems when she was vilified instead of receiving comfort, she shut the whole thing down. I've never understood parents who lose children and their first thoughts seem to be to run to their SM accounts. Everyone is different but it's the
last method of "self comfort" I would use. I'm sure, if I had found 2 of my children hanging by their necks in the basement (and with all the gory details that actually mean... discoloration, facial expressions, etc... ) I would need to be taken to a hospital myself for sedation and evaluation; no doubt in my mind.
(And, going back a bit, I would have immediately pulled down a wild animal hanging from a noose and tried to help; never mind my own children.) That I'll never understand unless she wanted them dead. JMO.
ETA: ... and, if in any way at all, she was responsible for those children being on chairs and with nooses around their necks... surely, if they survived, they would have been questioned and, imo, they would tell what happened and point the finger right at her. Because, had they survived and with the CPS history, no doubt she would not have taken them home for quite awhile. They would be away from her and in a safe place, without any threats being made to keep them quiet. JMO
