Daffodil Lane

Couldn't agree with you more. This is exactly the first thing I thought and I did a blog search to see if anyone else was saying it. You are the first one I've found. All the "christians" seem to be blaming the wife (big surprise). I did a quick tour through your blog and It seems we agree on most everything. Keep up the good work!

Thanks! Welcome to Daffodil Lane. :o)

She has confessed to shooting him and waived extradition. No other information at this time but I bet it was more serious than just being oppressed.

I'm sure there was some mental and physical abuse thrown in for good measure. I grew up around these kind of people and I've seen it hundreds of time before.

I expected to learn that he had "bagged and bedded" one of the members of his flock. I was ready to wager money on it. Boy was I wrong.

I kind of wondered about that too...if maybe she caught him with another woman or something. I don't think she just went nuts and killed him though...something is beneath the story.

This happened just a town or two over from my in-laws. As soon as I heard the police had found the wife and daughters, I immediately thought there was at least the possibility of long-term abuse. Of course, she could also be mentally ill, or she might stand to inherit big bucks (I kind of doubt that one, given there was no attempt to cover up the crime or make it look like someone else did it).

Can you tell I watch too many crime shows?

Seriously, this is really sad. If it comes out that he was abusing one or all of them for years, I'll have to wonder why no one else noticed.

I vote for abuse too ... or maybe he "abused" one of those little girls.

I think Qusan has it right. Possibly child-molestation.

Jamison and I discussed that too, but I always hate to go there. I hope that wasn't the case because these little girls definitely have enough to deal with.

admittedly, I thought exactly the same thing when I heard she was arrested on murder charges...

I wondered if this was a case of severe mental abuse. A lot of Church of Christ churches are good churches, but a number of them are very strict and can border on being cult-like. You know, the wife submits to the man and the man lords that over the woman, ignoring the fact that the Bible also teaches the man to love the woman and basically treat her like a queen. I wonder if this is a case of taking this to an extreme. And of course, the church may be supporting this kind of behavior. So I've wondered if there was abuse, both towards her and the girls. She may have felt so trapped and didn't know where to go to for help that she snapped. The authorities are surprisingly silent on this issue, so I wonder.

I've wondered this myself. I grew up in a C of C and I have seen certain men over they years who thought this is how it should be...that their wives were merely there to do their beck and call and it didn't matter how he treated her because he was the "head" of the household. You may be on to something there.