[Lanza]

They didn't give Russell a free pass at all. They said Andrea never complained. They were asked "where were you all?" and the mom said she was there 13 hours a day. She was the one nagging Russell. He was considering letting her drive the next week too, and she couldn't believe it. The mom said she watched the kids one time when Andrea was having the 4th child. Russell was there and she mentioned one needed changing, and he said "this will be a first, I have never changed a diaper." The mom was shocked.

[MVV]

Wow! All this time I am thinking, as according to Rusty and Mom Dora that they were the primary caretakers of the five children, Dora said so this morning to Katie C., that they were so "exhausted, caring for five children and Andrea was only allowed two hours a day to be alone with the kids".

Now we are hearing the other side. I feel terrible for Mrs. Kennedy, here is an older woman that had just buried her cancerous husband and had her own grieving to do, then the Andrea tradegy, it's a shame and I have no bad feelings for Mrs. Kennedy!

[Irene Adler]

"...and the mom said she was there 13 hours a day."

Okay, here is something that puzzles me. If Mom was there 13 hours a day, then why wasn't there a clean glass in the house (according to Russell, himself) when he came home to find that the kids were dead, and the police offered him a glass of water to help him calm down? How can relatives have been there helping out all the time, and the house be such a terrible, filthy mess (as I remember it described as being by the police)? Doesn't anybody in the family know how to clean up, and if it's too much for Mom alone, then call in some other relatives to come in and help out. Certain things that these people say just don't add up to me.