30 May 2007

Welcome to Texas...

Now that I've relocated, my focus on awful and creepy news stories will have to change to those more local.

Which is a downer, because every screwed up weirdo on God's Green Earth eventually found his or her way to Florida.

I'll start off with an easy one: Mom hangs kids, self

This does not look like a happy woman. In fact, she looks like she's being forced to sit for this picture and is looking to see if she's being watched too closely to engage in some family hangin'.


Less than five years earlier, another Hudson Oaks family was torn apart when Dee Etta Perez, 39, shot her three children, ages 4, 9 and 10, before killing herself.

Andrea Yates drowned her five children in the family's Houston bathtub in 2001. In 2003, Deanna Laney beat her two young sons to death with stones in East Texas, and Lisa Ann Diaz drowned her daughters in a Plano bathtub.

Dena Schlosser killed her 10-month-old by severing the child's arms with a kitchen knife in 2004

We've been over this before, but apparently it hasn't sunk it yet here. Listen - if you have children, you're not allowed to kill them. Or do anything else truly awful to them. No killin', no pimpin', no starving, no torture. Seems pretty clear to me.

Crazy people - they're everywhere.