I think this Mormon Stories podcast, shared previously in a prior thread, offers significant anecdotal evidence to support the idea that Lori's choices were, in a way, simply just another chapter in the Cox family way of "doing business." It seems to be a lifestyle with a self serving approach to life, and a callousness toward whoever and whatever gets in the way of the family and their desires.
From what was revealed in this interview with a cousin, Lori's actions in this case seem fitting to family patterns, rather than an exception, and some of this is chilling to hear as it paints a picture of the family very likely taking out one of their own.
Paraphrased from prior notes by Nikynoo, with my own notes: This Mormon Stories interview is good background on the Cox family history and a little insight to Mormonism. It is very interesting and listenable. Well told. Features stories being shared by a cousin of Lori.
Interestingly, the cousin also gave some interesting background about the night that Stacey [Lori's sister and MBP's mom] was found in a diabetic coma. Not a zombie this time, but still a person who may have become a burden and needed to go?
This was in 1998. According to the interview [at about the 2:30 mark], this cousin Megan was there when Stacey was found in a coma at her parent's home, then admitted to hospital and subsequently a hospice. Alex is prominently part of the landscape. Angel of death? Stacey/Lori's father and family were called to tell them that Stacey was in a coma, and Lori and the rest of the Cox family were in Hawaii when this tragedy happened. (Sound familiar?) The family didn’t care to come back to see Stacey before she died.