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It is not clear to me why Sebastien is seen as the main suspect here?

This is such a sad case. Women with abusive husbands are often asked why they don't just leave - well, this is one reason why. You put yourself at greater risk by planning to leave. And how terrible this must be for the children.

From what I can find, the research evidence is that so-called truth serums are not reliable. They can lower inhibitions, but not completely prevent someone from lying. And there is the risk that they might cause false confessions. Let's say you didn't rob the store, but you have often thought...

I just don't think there is a way to force someone who doesn't want to talk to give you the information. Even when people are tortured, they lie as often or more often than they tell the truth. But this is just a terrible case. This is not looking good for that poor little girl.

I had to do a long drive last weekend (to visit my mum in a nursing home) and my daughter came along and persuaded me to listen to the first seven episodes. I am totally hooked!

I haven't posted much but I have followed the trial pretty closely. I too am very disappointed with the verdict and with the Judge's reliance on OP's testimony. I worry that he will get off with nothing but a slap on the hand and the message that "you can get away with murder."

I can believe that someone might want to kill their child - certainly there seem to be plenty of cases of people doing that (I am looking at you, Casey Anthony, among others). But it is hard for me to believe that someone would plan to do it in such a horrible way. You'd have to be really...

Yes, those of us around to post on these message boards survived. But some kids didn't. These safety devices do have a purpose. Tink

Now I am getting quite interested in this whole question of how soon after death a body begins to smell. This study seems to suggest it takes three days: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17647-smell-of-death-can-point-to-murder-time.html#.U9rh9fldXJo And this may be the study referred to...

Yet there was that earlier case where the car alarm went off repeatedly and the dad just turned off the alarm repeatedly. I would have thought THAT would have triggered him to think about his baby, but it didn't. Our minds work in odd ways sometimes.

I don't know why she moved the car either. I'm assuming she didn't call for help (on a phone) because she is deaf, but I don't know why she didn't go back into the daycare to ask them to call. Perhaps panic and shock? We don't always behave rationally in those situations. Being deaf, she may...

No, I don't think they are lying. But perhaps the odour starts later. I had thought it would be obvious by lunchtime, but it seems perhaps it was not, since in other cases parents have apparently not noticed. Someone suggested at one point that perhaps there isn't much odour until the child is...

This was how I felt originally. BUT, if you look at my earlier post in this thread - there was a case in Milton, Ontario (near where I live) where a grandmother left her grandson in the car and he died. She moved the car in the middle of the day and DID NOT NOTICE anything. She drove the car to...

You know, this article is rather interesting: http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/11/28/grandmother-pleads-guilty-in-senseless-death-of-ontario-toddler-left-in-sweltering-car-last-summer/ as Popsicle posted. The similarities (except that she was a grandmother and not a father) are definitely...

As I posted elsewhere, I started off feeling that he had done this intentionally. But as I have read more about the case, and some of the links to other information, I am not really sure. It is hard to believe that someone would deliberately choose such a horrible way to kill a child, so you...