The answer to that is yes, Diefree, she certainly does. Me, for one. . .
I followed the dialog back and saw ya'lls discussion there, and found it interesting. This thing with the parents is a little puzzling to me. I have seen some of their public display and I can't help but feel sorry for them. I have not made up my mind as to their involvement. I feel that they are sincere in their grief. Everyone human being is different, some are more emotional than others, some less. That's the nature of the (human) beast - we are all different.
I had the experience a few years ago of knowing the parents whose 2 young children were murdered. You probably have heard about the case - Darlie Routier? (We are in North Central Texas, near Dallas). She was convicted of murderering her kids who were 5 & 6 yrs. old. She is currently on death row, awaiting execution.
Darlie and Darin worked for the same company that I did back in the late 80s early 90s. Darlie was a strange one, IMHO. She had a "clique" and if you weren't part of that clique, you weren't anybody. Countless times when meeting her in the hallway I'd extend a "howdy" or "good morning", etc. Not ONCE did she acknowledge my greeting. I stopped wasting my breath after a little while.
When the police arrested her, we (myself and some of the folks at work) had thought maybe Darin would be charged (and I had trouble believing that he might have done it because Darin was a lot more friendly than Darlie and I didn't think he could have done such a thing). When Darlie was charged, I was not surprised, and COULD believe she was capable of it.
Anyway, to make a long story short, the things they did before she was charged were pretty bizarre. One of the murdered kids birthday was right after the murder. They had buried the kids and Darlie and Darin went to the cemetery and had a “party” for the child at the gravesite. They were using silly string and just having a good time celebrating the kids birthday. When I first saw that, I though “GOSH, what is this?!”. It just seemed so strange to me. I wasn’t alone either, when I talked to others. Some folks thought it was no big deal, but I just thought it took a different person than me to do something like that!
Anyway, I didn’t mean to rant here, folks. Thanks for the ping, homeschool mama!
MeeknMing, OMGosh, I didn't realize you were in Dallas. I'm in Gainsville. That is so strange because I was thinking of Darlie while reading this thread. You won’t believe me but I’m telling the honest to God truth here. First of all, she did it. I always knew she did it. Her story didn’t add up. Secondly, I’m from Kerrville, TX where the trial was held. I know two of the jurors very well. One was my next door neighbor growing up and the other was a very close cousin. I’ve talked to the cousin about this several times. He is a very quiet man, so it’s hard to get anything out of him. But he said they all knew she did it, and everyone of them had a gut feeling the father had something to do with it. Who knows really. I wasn’t there and didn’t hear any of the evidence. I’m not saying the father had anything to do with it, just repeating what my cousin the juror said.
When Darlie gets put to death, I think we all should go spray silly string on her grave site.