Maybe the dad is retired or self-employed, has some time to spare around the holidays, and likes to drive and see the country and spend some time with his son. I know plenty of people who might do that. I don’t find that suspicious, although of course it doesn’t rule out suspiciousness.

I’ve heard of people who won’t fly; weird, creepy, suspicious are they too? Or not. College students, grad students, have theirs reasons. Panopticon, indeed.

But, “we knows?”

Suspicious warrants investigation. I await his explanation.

Are the “we knows” out already?

For what it’s worth- for the word, murder, I’m going by some accepted definitions of the word, murder.

One example is from the merriam-webster [dot com] site, which defines murder as the following:

murder- “the crime of unlawfully killing a person especially with malice aforethought”.

From the story of the aunt, which I have provided above- I have decided to see the killings of the children, which she had done, as murder- since, 1) she did not get permission from police or a government to kill these people, and 2) more importantly- she did not get permission from these children, or even from those children’s parents, to kill these people.

It can be argued that her killing herself could be a legally allowed killing, of herself, since a case can be formed, saying she had her own permission, to kill herself.

Regardless of that argument- since I believe she killed these people, and then herself, out of a, [in my words- [a temporary loss of reason], where she took the action of: I-will-kill-these-people-and-then-myself-so-that-the-bad-people-can’t-kill-them-first], it can be questioned whether she was in her right mind, when she decided to kill others, and then kill herself.

Did she consider- have people, in past wars in Europe, been targeted by the Third Reich, or armies that were just as murderous as the Third Reich, and then they survived those wars?

Did this woman know that she and these children would [not] survive the war?

Would they have survived WW2 if she had left these people alone?

It can be argued that her killing these people was a criminal act, or that it was a wrongful act, since- she did not know that these people would or would not survive the war, or that their killing was a needed thing.

Regardless, I believe that you and I have different definitions for the words- murder and suicide, and that is an OK thing, in my point of view.

I suppose that thought of people being killed, and/or the thought of the deaths of others, can bring out intense or strong feelings, in myself and other people, when we read about these histories.

Thank you for showing me the link to your very good review of the
historical book, Maus.

I think that the book may be too strong of a historical book for some people’s emotions, but I’m glad that Mr. Spiegelman wrote the book, so that- the story of his parents surviving the WW2 holocaust, and his story, can be heard by other people.
Cheers.

There is no indication that the FBI’s role is anything but supplementary.

If there’s something wrong with the investigation or the evidence custody we’ll hear about it when the details are made public.

Here is an example from my own career. About 40 years ago one of the spacecraft that I worked on went tumbling out of control. To recover it was necessary to determine the axis of rotation. The official story is two engineers (that I knew) figured it out from the radio noise from the spacecraft. The mission was totally unclassified, and everyone involved had a clearance anyway. I was told a couple of years later that the truth was this: the USAF imaged our spacecraft with a classified asset and only about five people involved knew the truth (not me).

Now police are overstretched but the handling of this case is federal

No, I’m pointing out to you that the investigation is in the hands of local officials, so you want to accuse people of fabricating evidence, you have to start there. Of course, you might just suspend judgment on that question, but you cannot seem to manage that either.