Hi, I'm new here. Don't know how much I'll post. But this case has exerted such a terrible hold. I've been riveted, outraged, and repulsed over and over.
I don't think for a second that this was NOT premeditated. The fact that the father was arrested THAT DAY is almost enough to convince me of that alone. The detectives did not wait a day or two to let him "grieve," then stop by the house for a follow up to ask about things that they couldn't quite fit together. The story smelled funny from the moment he started to tell it and they booked him then & there.
The mother's statements at the funeral, if reported accurately, are certainly odd at best and make her look complicit. It's occurred to me that maybe, maybe she was, shall we say, less than impressed with her husband's level of responsibility / multi-tasking abilities, heard about a similar case, looked it up on the Internet, then said, "Justin, Justin, look what I read, it only has to be X degrees for Y hours to kill him, please be careful, etc." And maybe this started the wheels turning, gave him a scenario, which he researched on his own. Maybe. I hope both of Cooper's parents don't turn out to be as evil as it appears.
But I'm not betting on it. In any case, I just hope the police have enough evidence to convict.