Police: Dad killed kids because wife was leaving

I don't understand why a parent would do that to their own kids.

 

I've been involved in two cases that were similar to this. The one that disturbed me the worst was back in 1999. Man and wife are splitting up, he has there two kids and is taking them on vacation. Has a son that is 22 months old and a three year old daughter. He claimed he was carjacked and thrown from the vehicle but his kids were kidnapped. Well 4 hours later, and when the sun came up we found his car that he tried to run overboard into a river but he got it stuck on some downed trees on the river bank. The boy was dead of a single shot to the chest, still strapped in his car seat. The little girl was bleeding out and a had a sucking chest wound, unconscious but still alive when we found her. We scooped up both, took the boy still in car seat and laid the girl in the back seat. My shift partner performed CPR on her all the way to the hospital. I sat with the little boy in a room in the hopsital for 2 hours, just me and him. A Dr. pronounced him dead and we were waiting for the crime lab technicians to process any evidence off of him. I then got pulled and went into the operating room with the little girl as they attempted to save her. At the time the father was being interviewed and sticking to his story of a carjacking. So, to protect the children we were placed as armed guards of them. First and last time I have done this. I watched them cut the little girl from her belly button up above her breast bone and tried to stop the bleeding but she died on the operating table. Been almost 10 years since that incident and I can still picture the whole situation like it was yesterday. I have seen those faces( of the boy and girl) too many times over the years. I couldn't sleep for months with out seeing them as I closed my eyes. I have seen probably 500-600 dead individuals over the years, whether accident victims, homocide victims, or natural deaths, but the children you see dead stick with you. I can name them and see everyone of them when I think of them.

This POS father finially confessed to the murders and didn't want his wife to move on and have someone else take his spot. He died in prison a few years back, seems someone stuck a broomstick up you know what that went through his heart. No Joke. No one saw anything and no one has ever been convicted or tried in his murder.

 

It was. There is nothing you can do to prepare for something like that. My shift partner that performed CPR on the little girl has since retired on a medical disability, he had 6 years on as a Trooper. He was in my Academy class as well. He was diagnosed with Post Tramatic Stress Syndrome and was never the same after that. He started drinking alcohol, and drinking a lot of it. To the point he couldn't wake up in the morning or whenever his shift was to start. He was in the jackpot administratively and was being charged almost weekly. Our Deparment Doctor started looking at his personnel file and realized that he was involved in that incident. They sent him to shrinks for the next few months and after a year they retired him. He's driving a truck locally now. I saw him around Chritmas.

I agree that he got it in the end.

 

When I lived in NJ one of the men in our church was one of the firemen in NYC on 9/11. He wasn't in the WTC, but in one of the search and rescue brigades that dug thru the rubble for weeks. He had PTSD pretty bad. So bad that he ended up in a mental health facility for about a week. When he came out he said he had a whole new view of what makes people 'snap' or go 'crazy'. Apparently all the men he encountered in this facility were there as a result of nervous breakdowns following: divorce, death of their wife or child, or loss of a job they had had for at least 15 + years.

My interpretation of of his testimony is that these men felt they had lost their identity. They were no longer the husband, father, or corporate executive so they felt like nothing and they just mentally snapped.

Joe said there were women there too and most were there following the death of a parent, especially if they had been the sole caregiver. Or after the loss of a sibling to whom they were particularly close.

From what I have seen, in the news, in the past few years some people think that if they can't have you no one should. I've never been in that situation but I think that is selfish and stupid.