Can anyone think of a single other case where a parent/stepparent, murdered their own child and their children's friends? That just seems so out there. It's usually done alone, at home. Just curious. Are we reaching here or is there some similar case?
I haven't got much to add to Graznik, and EntreNous posts, I agree with them on the whole, I would just like to add a bit of statistical information.
It seems a lot of people have problems believing that it was one of the parents due to the fact that the three boys came from different families.That's understandable, if you google "two or three murdered children" you are faced with a long list of Mother kills her children ..... Father kills his wife and children.
It is true that child victims outside the family are very rare, don't be fooled by the media. Multiple child victims outside the family are even more scarce. A case with the constellation of WM,... I've only seen one up to now.
Korogocho triple murder Catherine Muthoni Nairobi February 17, 2015, in which
a young woman 23, murdered her 1 year old son, then went over to her neighbours and killed two of her neighbours children. I think she was in a pretty desperate mental condition.
This is a case of a Mother killing her daughters playmate, but not her daughter:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Sandra_Cantu
"She told police that Cantu often played with her own daughter"
If we took the time to research this, I'm sure we would find something similar in criminal history world wide, but it's very time consuming, I will keep my eyes open.
I've always found it interesting that people were more willing to believe the "satanical ritual" perspective, although in '93, there was no known case of this.
One thing that multiple murders of children have in common, they often remain unsolved, there are often wrong convictions, coerced confessions, many things that bear resemblance with this case, some in a more than eerie way like:
The "Jerry Hobbs" case which I mentioned somewhere else:
http://murderpedia.org/male.H/h/hobbs-jerry.htm
http://truth-out.org/archive/component/k2/item/94133:coerced-confession-miracle-exoneration-the-case-of-exmonster-jerry-hobbs
The Schuessler - Peterson Murders at "Robinsons Woods"
http://www.prairieghosts.com/spmurders.html
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/keyword/kenneth-hansen
The Grimes Sisters:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_the_Grimes_sisters
11-year-old Betty June Binniker and 8-year-old Mary Emma Thames:
http://www.**************/1688121/70-years-too-late-murder-conviction-overturned-after-execution-of-14-year-old-boy/
http://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/stinney-george.htm
The Lake Bodom Murders in Finnland:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Bodom_murders
My opinion:
The injuries of the boys suggest one of the parents did it.
The crime was staged to look like it was a serial killer.
It certainly wasn't three drunken teens.
Maybe one of the parents is a "potential serial killer" ?
My Speculation:
The "placing" of the bodies suggest two boys were targeted, one was collateral.
The direction in which the bodies pointed, two pointing South, one pointing North suggests the same, plus the reinstatement of power over the two targeted.
The reinstatement of power was also underlined by the symbolic association of something that "belonged" to the perp, possibly double laced LA Gear which had a black and white lace in each boot, thus two victims bound with Black and White laces, one bound with two black "half" laces that might have came from the perp, who sacrificed this lace as a sign of remorse for the collateral damage. Crazy, but maybe psycho-logical.
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