Something tells me the father may have been abusing the children (or one of the children) and the mother may have just found out about it and snapped. Why else would she kill him,then take the kids and run? It just seems to me like she was trying to just get away from him,away from the whole situation.It's really very sad...very sad,indeed.The kids are the innocent victims in this whole situation,as they usually end up being,time and time again.
Getting your info from Eleanor Roosevelt are you?
Mary's lawyer was on TV the other day and seemed to hint very strongly that the children were not being abused and that neither was Mary. He said something like: "but there are different kinds of abuse. emotional abuse, verbal abuse".
While you (and others) have strong feelings that abuse of one kind or another will be at the root of this tragedy, I am trying to keep an open mind so that I can better understand what is presented in the formal trial process. In saying this, I am not faulting you but I do try to avoid the Geraldo/Greta sleaze machine in these matters because little, if any, value is added to my life by dwelling on the dark side of human nature. YMMV...
There is no just reason for murder.
And, before we take away the man's lifelong reputation as well as having to lose his life, we need to investigate the one doing the murder.
He was not killing anyone. So, we have to wait and see. Maybe, she just wanted out of the marriage. It has happened many times before and she knew she would probably not get a divorce.
It appears that the TBI don't think he was abusing the children or wife and they are the investigating agency.
This is a quote from TBI spokesperson Jennifer Johnson when she appeared on Larry King Live:
JOHNSON: I think everything about this case is puzzling. I don't think there's any information that could come out that would really make sense of it all and I think that's really where the public is right now. They want some reasonable explanation for this and I think we all have to brace ourselves for the fact that it may never come. They never get a reasonable explanation or a satisfactory answer.
CALLER: I have a question. Could the motive have been that Mr. Winkler could have been abusing his wife or children in any way?
JOHNSON: A lot of people have asked that question and from the very moment that we came upon the scene we actually looked and there's no history of domestic violence. As I said earlier, we can't share the motive but I think, you know, the history does sort of speak for itself.