IzzyBlanche
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In an amazing coincidence, the book I was reading today mentioned the case of John List, another family annihilator who killed his wife, mother, and three children in 1971.
I am oversimplifying and paraphrasing, but by all accounts, List sincerely believed he was saving his children's souls by killing them while they were still believers who would thereby go straight to heaven, rather than allowing them to mature and therefore possibly turn away from the church and commit sins that would doom them.
The difference is that instead of dying by suicide, List created a new life for himself and lived free, even marrying again, until he was finally apprehended in 1989.
I wonder if Haight had similar rationalizations about the reasons he was killing his children.
I am oversimplifying and paraphrasing, but by all accounts, List sincerely believed he was saving his children's souls by killing them while they were still believers who would thereby go straight to heaven, rather than allowing them to mature and therefore possibly turn away from the church and commit sins that would doom them.
The difference is that instead of dying by suicide, List created a new life for himself and lived free, even marrying again, until he was finally apprehended in 1989.
I wonder if Haight had similar rationalizations about the reasons he was killing his children.