Musing on murder
Apr. 23rd, 2012 04:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
northernwalkerSo, this weekend I was watching a lot of ID(Investigation Discovery, AKA the true crime crack channel) and it got me thinking about murder. More precisely, about family murders. I can't really picture how I'd react if one of my parents killed the other. Angry? Would I believe it? Would I try to pretend it didn't happen?
Trying to think about how to cope if you were a parent whose child had killed another of your children? I just have no idea how you'd process it. Say that your child is Karla Homolka. She comes to you and tells you that she and her husband have killed three teenaged girls. One of them is her 15yo sister. That death, she tells you, was an accident, caused by the alcohol and drugs they gave Tammy so that Karla's then-fiance could rape her two days before Christmas. What could you possibly say or do then? How do you cope? What do you do with your anger? Do you blame yourself? Do you try and defend her? All I can think to do is get a therapist and a lot of booze.
Trying to think about how to cope if you were a parent whose child had killed another of your children? I just have no idea how you'd process it. Say that your child is Karla Homolka. She comes to you and tells you that she and her husband have killed three teenaged girls. One of them is her 15yo sister. That death, she tells you, was an accident, caused by the alcohol and drugs they gave Tammy so that Karla's then-fiance could rape her two days before Christmas. What could you possibly say or do then? How do you cope? What do you do with your anger? Do you blame yourself? Do you try and defend her? All I can think to do is get a therapist and a lot of booze.
