<p>I’m curious as to why the father was calling his employer right after the so called “discovery” of the death, and what was discussed for six minutes. Most distraught parents would not be doing that. He’d be inconsolable, and at most, talking to close relatives at that point. What was pressing that he needed to talk to his employer right away? I wonder if the contents of that convo will come out. Was he trying to cover some tracks? </p>
<p>Why was the dad researching life without children? What do you even look up for that? What is there he needed to know that one would not know already since he has only had a kid for 22 months and has been an adult without kids longer than an adult with kid? And if you are going to commit a crime, and want to cover your tracks, what bozo doesn’t know that in today’s day and age that one’s computer and phone will be searched?</p>
<p>Especially a guy in IT should know that.</p>
<p>It’s possible he didn’t believe he would be investigated much less charged with his sons death.</p>
<p>Perhaps, but he has background in law enforcement and his brother is in law enforcement. Its pretty common to suspect a family member in a death, even when it looks accidental.</p>
<p>I bet this is only the tip of the iceberg on what comes out about these 2 “parents.” The sexting indicates to me that they may have been partaking in an alternative life style. I would bet my life that the wife was part of this, if not the architect of the plan. She’s too shrewd to be the one to execute it - strikes me as cold and calculating. H will have to spill the beans or she probably will walk away. </p>
<p>I doubt she is going to walk away. This was just a probable cause hearing. There is likely much more they have (cellphone calls between the two, etc) that they have not disclosed. And yes, they could offer a plea deal to him to get him to throw her under the bus. </p>
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There’s apparently a sub-forum on Reddit. DS says the posters there are pretty militant. Maybe “dad” was working up his rationale for no longer wanting to be a parent?</p>
<p>Well… she hasn’t been charged yet. And I don’t know if the police can get the contents of phone calls between them (they aren’t the NSA…). Texts, yes. Searches, yes. Now he might turn on her, especially because it sounds like the death penalty is a possibility for him. Then it becomes a he said-she said situation.</p>
<p>I haven’t seen much on her actions that day or leading up to it. Whether she was behind the plan or not, he executed it. And he had many opportunities to stop it. It will be interesting to see what comes out.</p>
<p>They can see the history of the calls between the 2 and interview them separately to ask what they discussed. If there are inconsistencies (if they even tell what they talked about) then things continue to unravel. </p>
<p>Yes, of course. But the actual call content would be MOST interesting to hear… </p>
<p>What is so odd to me (well apart from EVERYTHING) is, if you’re going to be so cold and calculated as to plan this horrific thing, why aren’t you going to PLAN what to do afterwards to avoid looking suspicious? Why didn’t the wife fake hysterics etc?? I agree they aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed but geez . . .</p>
<p>I hadn’t been following this, but after reading the thread and a few of the links it does sound suspicious. Except that if he knew that he was killing his son, wouldn’t he expect that everything he did would be scrutinized and avoid the sexting? I’m also wondering how he managed to spend so much time sexting at work.</p>
<p>About the child-free thing, I looked into it at one time and read a book about it. I was deep into infertility treatments, and I heard about a book that was written by a couple who’d gone through infertility treatments without success, decided at one point that they were too old to become parents, and embraced a “childfree” (not “childless”) life. Their point was that even though they had wanted children very much, it was better for them to view life without children in a positive way, and not just as a deprived existence that had been forced upon them. One part of their philosophy was having strong relationships with other people’s children. The book was really wonderful, and very helpful to me at that point because I could see the possibility of getting beyond the desperation of infertility and having a happy life even if we did not have children. The childfree movement I looked into was not at all aggressive, and probably very different that the one that this man investigated. </p>
<p>Goodness, there are lots of child free sites that have nothing to do with hating (much less hurting) children! My life’s work is helping other people’s children. There are lots of folks like me who just know we aren’t cut out to be parents.</p>
<p>I was thinking of Sylvan’s post above that mentions “militant” child-free forums on Reddit. Aren’t people speculating that the father was influenced by these child-free groups? I’m sure that none of them are advocating actually hurting existing children, but who knows what was going through the father’s mind as he read them.</p>
<p>I can explain the child free subreddit. Its userbase is well-known for being pretty terrible. The reason for this is because people who make their decision to not have children into a movement tend to be unlikable and unnecessarily aggressive. Regardless, the subreddit has nothing to do with killing children, rather it’s mainly about complaining about other people’s children.</p>
<p>He also wasn’t a regular visitor there, so r/childfree had nothing to do with this.</p>
<p>Thanks for the explanation, SaintSaens. I don’t know much about Reddit. </p>
<p>Too bad this couple didn’t decide to be childfree in advance of having a child. The best possibility at this point is that the father was criminally negligent. </p>
<p>In 2004 the Nakia Burgess case in Atlanta similarly raised questions about the parent’s intent. Burgess parked her car on the top deck of a parking garage, exposed to the hot Georgia sun, with her downs syndrome toddler daughter locked inside. Burgess proceeded to work but checked on the child throughout the day. The girl died an agonizing and tortuous death and Burgess ultimately pled guilty to manslaughter. Her sentence was 5-years probation.</p>
<p>Does anyone remember the woman who was on Oprah who completely forgot her daughter was even in the car?</p>
<p>Anyway, this guy seems totally suspect. Something is not right. </p>