BTW, I’ve read quite a bit about “Munchausen by proxy” and never ONCE did it enter my mind about this case, until you mentioned it. But now I think you are REALLY onto something!! Way to go, RTE!! I would have never put 2 and 2 together, but your theory makes A LOT OF SENSE! Usually, ‘sufferers’ (that’s a funny term considering THEY aren’t the ones that suffer) of MBP are WOMEN and/or ‘caregivers’, so it never entered my mind as far as HKS, but I had a “Gotta have a V-8” moment when you mentioned it, because it really DOES seem to fit here, as far as the relationship between Anna and HKS!! That was a really good catch, and it also got me thinking how DANGEROUS HKS could be to Dannielynn! It’s really very frightening to think that he may, and very possibly will, be a part of her life. It makes me sick actually!
BTW, I once read a book about a woman who had Munchausen by Proxy and she ended up killing 10 of her 11 children!! Did you ever read that book? It was a long time ago, and the children were possibly born in the 30’s or 40’s (I can’t remember exactly). The most shocking part of it was that her husband BELIEVED her until the end, and supported her even after she was caught. I think it was one of my Mom’s ‘true crime’ books she used to read, and I read it as a teenager.
I do remember the case, but don’t think I read the book about it. There was another similar one that was more recent than that (but not “recently” as in “lately”) with 4-5 kids and SIDS deaths.
Seems like once a month or so we hear about someone faking their child’s cancer to get money - or sympathy or attention. Oh, that one woman recently (as in “lately”) who had her child fake being retarded for years and years! That was ghastly.
There was one person who wrote about this ANS saga when HKS was still holding the baby for ransom and said that Howie reminded him of those women who cut the babies out of pregnant women’s bodies to keep them as their own.
When the Munchausen Dx just hit me like a ton of bricks the other day, I remembered what that guy had written - and noted how much HKS’s “activities” are more like things that historically, more women have perpetrated than men have.
I wonder if I can find some notes on that ANS Show episode where his parents allegedly told the world about his, umm, testosterone problem.