In the dentist's waiting room on Bainbridge Island today, I chatted with a mother and her young daughter who had known the murdered children. Everyone here is appalled, of course and all we can say is WHY?
This is a special, woodsy, and ostensibly safe place to live, but loaded with liberals, some quite well off. I wonder whether masking rage until passive-aggressiveness spirals out of control is a liberal trademark. I'm particularly struck by the way Dawson murdered his girls, not a mark on them. He obviously didn't want to hurt them. Just to kill them softly. And so methodically, coldly, with incredible malice aforethought.
Come to think of it, I know a fellow here who bears a close resemblance to Dawson, not just in looks but in life story. "Nice" fellah, but I wouldn't trust him to babysit with my pets. Yes, the subject did come up.
#113 is very observant. The apparent killer found a way to end the lives of the girls neatly, and probably painlessly. This suggests that he thought that once he himself was gone, they had no further reason for being. In other words, he thought of himself as the center of things.
This is the upshot of the nice, secular liberal: his god was himself.