But you're right. It wasn't murder. It was whatever the Michigan equivalent to reckless homicide is.
How exactly do you know it wasn't murder? You assume it wasn't intentional? Maybe not, but forgeting that she apparently didn't think of her two children for the three hours she was in the salon...the fact that the woman said she was raped and abducted first says quite abit about her character. She looks guilty of murder to me.