Posted on 07/18/2010 9:44:51 AM PDT by LA Woman3
Corinne Peters’ high school years were filled with plenty of the light-hearted rituals and endearing goofs typical of a teenager. But the young woman also had to deal with something most teenagers don’t experience: grief.
Those closest to the only child say she never fully recovered after her father died from cancer when she was 16. Yet friends still knew her as fun-loving and extraordinarily compassionate.
Signs of accomplishment and progress — and the appearance that she was finally getting what she wanted out of life — shot up as she walked across a stage in a red graduation robe and collected her diploma last month.
Her doting, organized, helpful mother, Jayne Peters, was mayor of the well-heeled suburb of Coppell. Friends say the teen began driving a 2011 Hyundai Sonata her mother bought her as a graduation gift. She appeared eager to leave home and study health sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.
But Corinne’s vocal hopes for the future were built on a web of deception that finally unraveled last week, when Jayne Peters killed her daughter and then herself.
The shocking crime unleashed a torrent of secrets that had been hidden behind Jayne Peters’ almost-perfect public façade.
The family’s house had almost been foreclosed on three times in the past year. Jayne Peters was about to be investigated for personal charges and unexplained expenses on a city-issued credit card. Corinne’s “graduation present” was really a rental car.
“Knowing how much she wanted to protect her from the embarrassment, shame and humiliation of their financial ruin allows those of us who knew her to understand why she took Corinne with her,” said Doug Stover, who preceded Jayne Peters as Coppell’s mayor.
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There is NO excuse to take anyone with you; that's pure selfishness! If you can't stand your own life, that's one thing, but you should never make that decision for someone else.
A young girls life was taken, unfairly, by a mother who was selfish and ignorant. The tragedy is that no one wants to speak the truth in Coppell and the story fill fade away. The mother will get a park or building named after her and the injustice of her execution will be painted over in the annals of history.
John List murdered his mother, his wife, and three children to protect them from the ignominy of his failures.
And all we heard right afterwards, was “Poor woman...she had depression...yadda....yadda....yadda.”
She was hardly “upside down” in the house.
Did you see the comments after the article? Blaming big bad America for not having socialized medicine instead of the woman explaining to her daughter that they needed to downsize.
Two questions I have regarding this tragic story. 1. What was the reason she gave to the mayor of Cedar Hill for borrowing the gun? 2. Who took the rental car back to Avis?
Tragic, tragic story. How can anyone be so attached to the physical attributes of a “good life” that they kill themselves after murdering their only child? Is it really so important to look like you are doing well financially that you’d rather be dead? Perhaps the shame of having embezzled from her community was more than she could face. She must have been imagining only the most dire of futures - going to jail after a humiliating trial, earning her daughter’s hatred, and so on - that just got worse and worse until she convinced herself there was no way out.
The parish had been helping them financially - if only she had let them help her family spiritually, too. But that’s the sin of pride, when you won’t admit you need help.
No matter how bad it got for me personally, I could *never* kill my son. Never.
Considering the financial predicament the widow was in, she obviously couldn’t think straight in the aftermath of her husband’s long and painful death. Just how depressed is the housing market, that she couldn’t sell the house?
That was the story List told. I'm more inclined to think that he did it so he could start a new life for himself, unburdened by dependents.
Dollars to dimes, there is an antidepressant bottle in the background, and the mother quit taking them.
Suicide is horrific, taking another person with you us unthinkable.
typo us=is unthinkable.
I don’t think they mean to excuse her, I think they are just trying to understand her own justification for doing it.
I just saw that comment. Typical Obama voter!
You are squarely on the mark with your comment. I'm sure daughter would have preferred embarrassment to violent death at 19.
If everybody was like her during the depression, there would have been a massive number of homicides.
A lot of people were hurting much more than she was, they didn’t decide to kill their daughter.
No excuses for this. She was just an evil person.
Especially when it is premeditated!
uh huh, yet he went on to lead a quiet life. For what 30 years, two bad his children didn’t get a chance at those 30 years.
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