[Enterprise]

The low IQ angle is going to be tough to prove. The monster was smart enough to use a computer and communicate with the victim. The quality of the communications will come up at some point, to show state of mind and education level. Also, she was able to plan the murder, strangle the victim, remove the baby and keep her alive, and formulate a story that at least some people found believable. The bleeding hearts among us refuse to acknowledge that we have people who are capable of such atrocities, and they will ascribe to them conditions or motives which are false, instead of looking at them and their deeds and calling them "monstrous cold blooded murderers."

[marvlus]

The woman does not have a low IQ, she is just plain crazy. The husband, on the other hand....

[xsmommy]

i agree, i don't see low IQ as a part of this at all, other than for the gullibility of her dang family. she confessed to doing it, she is not nuts, and she is not stupid. she has nothing going for her. this may not be copasetic to say, but the attractiveness of the victim, much like laci peterson, the smiling, pretty, young pregnant woman, versus the UNattractiveness of the perpetrator here, will play a subconscious factor, i am willing to bet.