[burzum]

Sleep deprivation. The article says she drove over 1000 miles prior to the incident.

Could be her circadian ryhtyms are whacked.

Try staying awake 4 or more days straight. Things start getting a little strange.

Then why did she pack the plastic bags, steel mallet, knife, tubes, BB-gun, and mace? You can explain her setting out randomly if she went briefly crazy, but stocking her car with all of those items for a 1000 mile road trip indicates that she planned it. I'm not entirely sure if this was just an attempted kidnapping. I suppose we will learn in the next several months whether she planned to kill or maim the other woman.

[Rte66]

Auntie Maim, the Space Cadet Middy Cadet

[fso301]

Then why did she pack the plastic bags, steel mallet, knife, tubes, BB-gun, and mace? You can explain her setting out randomly if she went briefly crazy, but stocking her car with all of those items for a 1000 mile road trip indicates that she planned it. I'm not entirely sure if this was just an attempted kidnapping. I suppose we will learn in the next several months whether she planned to kill or maim the other woman.

The BB-gun , mallet and knife makes me think her intent was to torture and main rather than kill. Being repeatedly shot at close range with a BB-gun is going to hurt like hell. The mallet may have been for striking joints. The knife for the fear factor and possible disfigurement.

[VxH]

[You can explain her setting out randomly if she went briefly crazy,]

 

Nothing in the article indicates "briefly".

 

Severe sleep disturbances can and do produce abnormal if not psychotic behavior.

 

Consider the strange tale of a certain supreme court justice, for example.