What the hell?
No, really, what the hell?
It has happened again:
Part of me is glad I didn't hear about this back in July. Probably the same part that wishes I hadn't seen the headline today.
Or maybe I'm blocking a memory. Maybe I smoked that brain cell.
Why?
To the one, Corey's lawyer says the woman denies any role in Haynes' murder. To the other, I still think this is the sort of thing that absolutely screams for an insanity defense.
I mean, what the freakin' hell?
I don't get it. How does any sane person calculate and perform such a crime?
And these are incompetent killers. The official cause of death for Darlene Haynes is apparently "blunt force trauma, asphyxia by ligature strangulation and incision to the abdomen".
What the hell is wrong with these people?
At any rate, by the BBC's reckoning this is the sixth such killing and seventh attempt in the U.S. in twenty-two years. Compared to everything else that goes on around here, that's a low number. Why, then, is it no comfort at all?
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Notes:
British Broadcasting Corporation. "US woman charged with murder of pregnant mother". BBC News Online. December 17, 2009. News.BBC.co.uk. December 17, 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8419682.stm
See Also:
Sciforums discussion: "Amber Alert Issued for Fetus" (2004)
No, really, what the hell?
It has happened again:
A US woman has been charged with the murder of a pregnant mother whose baby was cut from her womb.
At a court in Massachusetts, Julie Corey, 35, was accused of killing her pregnant friend, cutting the baby from the womb and kidnapping it.
Darlene Haynes, who was eight months pregnant, was found dead with incisions to her abdomen in her house in July.
A search for the missing child led police to Ms Corey, who had a baby with her which DNA revealed was Haynes'.
Initially, police charged Ms Corey with kidnapping after finding her in possession of the baby girl at a homeless shelter in New Hampshire.
(BBC)
At a court in Massachusetts, Julie Corey, 35, was accused of killing her pregnant friend, cutting the baby from the womb and kidnapping it.
Darlene Haynes, who was eight months pregnant, was found dead with incisions to her abdomen in her house in July.
A search for the missing child led police to Ms Corey, who had a baby with her which DNA revealed was Haynes'.
Initially, police charged Ms Corey with kidnapping after finding her in possession of the baby girl at a homeless shelter in New Hampshire.
(BBC)
Part of me is glad I didn't hear about this back in July. Probably the same part that wishes I hadn't seen the headline today.
Or maybe I'm blocking a memory. Maybe I smoked that brain cell.
Why?
To the one, Corey's lawyer says the woman denies any role in Haynes' murder. To the other, I still think this is the sort of thing that absolutely screams for an insanity defense.
I mean, what the freakin' hell?
I don't get it. How does any sane person calculate and perform such a crime?
And these are incompetent killers. The official cause of death for Darlene Haynes is apparently "blunt force trauma, asphyxia by ligature strangulation and incision to the abdomen".
What the hell is wrong with these people?
At any rate, by the BBC's reckoning this is the sixth such killing and seventh attempt in the U.S. in twenty-two years. Compared to everything else that goes on around here, that's a low number. Why, then, is it no comfort at all?
_____________________
Notes:
British Broadcasting Corporation. "US woman charged with murder of pregnant mother". BBC News Online. December 17, 2009. News.BBC.co.uk. December 17, 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8419682.stm
See Also:
Sciforums discussion: "Amber Alert Issued for Fetus" (2004)