What has it been, a week or two, I finally went back and finished the last nine minutes maybe of this. As awful as it was, it wasn't as hard as it would have been had I kept going with watching all of it at once.
The rest went as we probably already knew. The SD grabbed the youngest child and ran with him and he caught up and pointed the gun and said drop him or he'd shoot her. She had no choice, point blank, and she did so and begged him not to kill her. Okay, there is not one bit easier about it. It's horrendous, it's just that I didn't listen to one horrendous thing after the other when finishing it. The little boy ran and tried to hide from dad behind garbage cans. To no avail while she took off running to get help at the fire department at this point.
It ended with the statements of mom and SD.
Throuighout everything he sat there emotionless but entirely with it, and cooperative and responding when asked anything.
The SD went first. They didn't show them and to me the voice did not sound like that of a teen so maybe someone read it for her, but no reason to assume it was not her either so it likely was. She told him what a good father he was to her and basically how she couldn't have asked for more, all the good memories, etc. But what he did to her that day. And this was hard she said she would never hate him. But at a point she said she could never hate him but she would never forgive him. Told of all the things he changed that day. Yet she reiterated so many good memories and how she could not ever hate him. But again what he did, holidays, when she sees others with brothers or sisters, and hers were gone, and so on.
Okay. I was wrong. I finished it a bit easier but talking of it now is not so much so. That is the gist.
Mom is up next. It's been a long day. I am going to wait to finish but am going to finish it out, the reason being what the heck happened here?
I will say mom did divorce him, I always wondered if she did so or not, never heard she did so figured and even was thinking she did not.
This was all a hard watch although most of it early on was the legal part of it and deal, etc. so it did not start out that way but then went into the details being put on the record and that's when I knew I was into that.
I am finishing because these boys and mom and sister all should know what they went through and he should NEVER get OUT. And it needs to be told so that he doesn't and it is understood what they went through. To listen to the SD, he was a wonderful dad and that was surprising to me. Great memories, into his kids AND her, she said a lot about how proud he would be of her, her grades this year, other things, etc.
It makes one wonder even more what the heck. I just figured he was a man who was always controlling, there was maybe always issues or problems, etc. but not to listen to her.
The only emotion I ever saw from him was when she was talking and he appeared to be breaking down a bit and crying. For a bit. It didn't last long. It SEEMED real for the time it lasted. And that surprised me.
I debate that she looks at him as a kid would. And maybe there were more problems than she knew....?
I will leave mom's for now because it is a lot heavier sharing the rest than I realized it would be.
I was heading for bed, could not keep my eyes open and now had a bit of a second wind should be in bed. But I would never get to this either if I didn't do it now, I watched the rest some hours ago.
I am going to see it out. Will come back, this actually was enough and heavier to talk of at some other time about mom's statement.
This man changed their world forever that day. And the SD saw every single murder and tried to save every single one after the first which they did not expect but came running before it happened.
The mom though he was going to kill himself... Not the kids.
Okay, that IS enough.
I am going to finish it out though. Almost there. What happened here? And I don't think he had some mental break. Things said seem to indicate otherwise. Mom did not go on about him being a good dad as the SD did. Not sure if that means anything...
Okay. I meant to finish it out but can't. But I will.