Blame The (Non)-Rapture:
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-palmdale-woman-attempted-murder,0,3939586.story
Palmdale (KTLA) — A woman slit her daughters’ throats before slitting her own early Friday evening, claiming that “the Tribulation” was going to occur and she wanted to prevent them from suffering through it, officials said.
Lyn Benedetto, 47, reportedly told her daughters to lie on a bed and proceeded to take a knife to their throats.
The suspect then took the knife to her own throat before driving the victims to an unoccupied friend’s house to die.
Supposedly War of the Worlds broadcast helped to inspire the FCC’s so-called “hoax rule”