There was a recent post on CNN’s website which advised people that if know anyone like Nashville mass-shooter Audrey Hale with “suicidal” issues, to contact the provided hotline number. Although that would be good advice for most people who are feeling suicidal, that really wasn’t the case with Hale, since her intention was not that she wanted to die, but she knew she probably would be killed during her rampage, and she wanted to take out as many as people as possible before that happened.
There have been plenty of other mass killers who have been killed themselves by “suicide” or by police, but here it appears that we are being asked to feel “empathy” for the killer—and that certainly suits Republican lawmakers in Tennessee who would rather expel two black Democrats for joining protesters against the state’s inaction.
But Tennessee isn’t the only the state that has a difficult time deciding how the deal with “non-traditional” child-killers, not even close to the worst—that would be Texas, an issue I’ve spoken about before. The case count now includes that of an 18-month-old boy, Cedrick Jackson, whose body was found in this Dallas County landfill in 2019…
…and his aunt was charged with his murder. In 2020, Krystle Concepcion Villanueva stabbed and beheaded her 5-year-old daughter. She claimed “insanity,” believing that her daughter had “been replaced by clones and had to be killed to bring back her real family.” Like in most such cases not involving a white female defendant, a jury didn’t believe her story.
In 2022 in Harris County, 7-year-old Troy Koehler allegedly “drowned” in a washing machine, but his parents were arrested for his murder, their case not aided by text messages that indicated they wanted to “kill” him over various “infractions”—including by hanging from a tree (the father’s idea), or baking him in the oven (the mother’s idea).
And then there is the case of Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez...
…a 6-year-old boy who is currently missing while his mother, Cindy Rodriguez-Singh, and her current husband fled to his home country of India with her six children who had been living along with Noel in a shed “lent” to her by a sympathetic neighbor, which police found in this condition:
Noel was born three months premature and had developmental issues. His father was deported to Mexico before he was born, and his mother—who has an “extensive” criminal history and apparently knew how to “work” the child welfare system—interpreted his condition as him being an “evil” child who was just too much trouble.
When
his uncle reported his disappearance to police, the mother first claimed
that she had given the boy to his natural father, and then that she had “sold”
him in a market. When police were skeptical, she decided to flee the country to avoid answering more questions she didn't want to answer.
The authorities believe Noel is dead, and have sought his mother's extradition from India. This of course is in contrast to the case of Sky Metalwala in Bellevue, Washington, whose mother after more than a decade still walks free despite the belief that she not only knows where he is, but that she killed him.
History tells us that unlike most cases of murder (especially of children), if the perpetrator is a woman, there is a good chance she might actually get away with it in Texas. Here’s a rundown of some old history:
1984:
A nurse named Genene Jones was convicted
of administering a deliberately fatal dose of a drug that caused a 15-month old
child’s heart to stop. Reports at the
time implicated Jones in the deaths under suspicious circumstances of anywhere
from 40 to 60 infants that she came in contact with. But we’ll never know for
certain, because Jones was fired from several nursing positions by suspicious
hospitals, and after her conviction for just one of the deaths, those hospitals
that had employed her destroyed their records concerning Jones activities,
apparently an attempt to avoid culpability.
1986: Juana Leija tossed six of her children over a bridge, two of whom drowned before rescuers arrived. Apparently prosecutors were familiar with the Mexican tale of the “weeping woman,” an indigenous Indian who was left by her high society husband for a more “suitable” mate, and subsequently went mad and tossed her children into the river. The defense claimed that Leija’s was an act of “love” so that they could escape abuse from their father, a claim that was based on the testimony of the mother alone. Leija received 10 months probation. As often is the case, a male is always at fault, whether “God” or mere mortal. Beyond that, the murders make no reasonable sense.
1991: Diana Lumbrera was convicted of murdering six children under her care between 1976 and 1990. She claimed that a mother-in-law had put a “hex” on her and the children.
1995: Claudette Kibble was convicted of killing three infant sons, one each in 1986, 1988 and 1990. No motive was given for the murders.
1999: Tina Cornelius threw her two infant children off a cliff. Neither she nor her attorney were quick-witted enough to use a postpartum insanity defense, and decided upon a “I see dead people” tale. In this case the jury decided that the story, not the perpetrator, was insane.
2002: Dee Perez shot to death her three children, wounded her husband and then shot herself.
2003: Deanna Laney crushed the skulls of two of her sons and seriously injured a third's back with rocks—on Mother’s Day of all times. Laney claimed that God instructed her to do this, and who is to question the word of God? Unfortunately, the Devil often masquerades as “God,” and sometimes the “devil” is the killer herself. Other people, like jurors who claim to be Christian, apparently did not know the difference. Laney was acquitted of murder by reason of insanity.
2003 Lisa Ann Diaz drowned her two young daughters. She claimed that “evil
spirits” and “germs” were going to kill her and her children. She was found not
guilty of anything by reason of insanity in 2005. How can this be judged “normal”
behavior for even a lunatic? Most people under such a delusion would try to
fight the “evil spirits,” not kill their children. A year later, the apparently too attractive for the judge in her case to resist Diaz was
freed to roam the streets again, having conned a jury and a judge with the dumbest of lies.
2004: Dena Schlosser killed her infant daughter by cutting off her arms. She was found not guilty of murder for—what else—reasons of insanity. She was back out on the streets within four years of the crime.
2005: Angela Camacho and her live-in partner were convicted of killing and decapitating the three children under their care—after which they washed themselves and had sex. The woman received three life terms; the man was sentenced to death.
2006:
Valeria Maxon murdered her infant son,
claiming that he was the “Antichrist.” Declared “legally” insane, she was sent
to a psychiatric hospital. She escaped and has been on a “most wanted” list
since 2014 (last "updated" in 2021).
2007: Gilberta Estrada hanged herself and her five children, one who survived. Why? Who knows.
2007: Andrea Roberts, whose privileged life by all reports was untroubled by the tribulations most of us experience, shot her husband and two children while they were asleep, and then shot herself. A “suicide” note was found, but offered no explanation for her actions.
2013: Guadalupe Ronquillo-Ovalle murdered her husband and three children, then killed herself. No apparent motive.
Oh wait, say the informed, you forgot the most “famous” of these Texas cases. No I didn’t, I just saved it for last. In 2001, Andrea Yates drowned her five boys in a bathtub. She was convicted of murder in her first trial, but the verdict was vacated merely because a psychiatrist had “mistakenly” referred to a “Law & Order” episode that did not exist at the time of the murders (the program eventually did air such a show, predictably making the killer the real “victim”). In a second trial, Yates was found “innocent” for “reasons of insanity,” which apparently was aided by revelations of restraints by her health insurance policy for mental health care and alleged improper drug prescriptions.
But was this
responsible for those "voices" that told her that her children were growing up “evil” because she
could not raise them “properly”? If this was the case, why didn’t she kill herself
instead, since she was the one "responsible" for this? In the meantime, Yates seems to believe that she is better off in a state
mental institution for life, which apparently the state of Texas must
think is a “cheaper” option than providing the "care" they should have provided her before in light of
her alleged mental health state before she killed her sons.
Well, I guess you’ll notice that all, or nearly all, the perpetrators here are women, and the victims children. One thing that is usually forgotten is that mothers have power over young children, although many seem to think that it is the other way around. Another reason is that unlike for men, all too often people search for “reasons” why women commit such acts, because it isn’t in their “nature.” In fact statistics show that mothers are more likely than fathers to kill young children, especially infants. And yet we are less likely to put an “evil” motive on such acts for mothers as we would do for fathers.
Why is it in Texas of all places do we see such cases in abundance? Probably because mothers are the most likely to be allowed to use the “insanity” defense, and occasionally actually win “acquittal” from “sympathetic” jurors, especially if they are white and have a “good” story the media will buy.
So while the mainstream media focuses
mostly on crimes committed by men, under the radar screen we see how “power” is
played-out between two “victimized” groups—women and children, and how one of
those groups claims to be the more “victimized” than the more obvious vulnerable who have no "voice" because the
current state of politics in this country deems it so.
Instead, we have to do endure the exaggerated self-obsessions of the people who composed these, whose efforts tend to off-put the intended "target" because of the gaslighting hypocrisy:
After all, the only reason why Jones isn't listed as one of the greatest mass murderers in the history of the world if the top-end number is correct is because first the evidence for it was purposely concealed by a system that didn't want to believe it was true, and secondly because the victims were "only" children.
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