What's fascinating to me is that she didn't. She feared a shootout and more people dead if she did. She probably feared she would not be safe if she betrayed him then. When he arrived at her place, he would have killed her and anyone else who was in the way, and she knew that. She waited and talked, and reasoned, with her childlike faith, until he was cool and resigned to a fate of being arrested. I don't know if she knew omnipotently that is what she was doing, but that's certainly the outcome. It's great human drama. We don't all have it in us to be her. I don't. I'd have found a way to shoot him.
She did what she did to survive. You are more generous to her than I am. I think about the families left behind, not the murderer of those families.
You don't know what he could have done or would have done. Is that speculation on your part? With everybody and their brother looking for him they would have found him.
I'd have found a way to shoot him.
Ditto.
Move to Atlanta and run for sheriff. Such courage and confidence should not be confined to the keyboard.