Authorities: Father Suspected Of Killing Two Young Sons, Including UF Batboy, Self

heavychevy said:

****ty day professionally. hopefully it was painless for the kids and beyond agonizing for him.

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I was just enjoying the thought of Mullinz getting fired, with Scotty Mundee too, on the tarmac somewhere, then this thread is at the top again.

Gator By Marriage said:

Having seen a few suicides over the years and being aware of situations like this one (though I never had to personally deal with one like this) I have discovered that the folks who do this are rarely in their right minds at the time of the act. They are usually in a severe state of depression and have come to sincerely believe it was the only option and they were acting in their kids best interests. That of course makes absolutely no sense to any rational person nor is it any kind of excuse. Especially those of us who are parents and can't imagine harming our children.

Usually there is a whole lot going on in somebody's head and some catalyst (or combination of catalysts) like losing their job or marriage or their kids pushes them over the edge. It never makes it any easier to accept these horrible incidents, but it does make me hyper vigilant for any troubling signs from the people in my life. And I hope no thinks I think they are wrong for judging this guy and his actions. That's their call; I'm just kinda numb.

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I think you are absolutely correct. My 1st cousin's beautiful daughter committed suicide last week. She was bi-polar and tended more toward depression vs. manic. She was within one year of completing her studies to become an optometrist and had a 3-year old son. A lot of the family are upset that she left her young son motherless. The rest of the family accept that it was her ongoing depression which she could not control. No one knows exactly what set her off but the family thinks it was planned as her son was with his father for a 3-day weekend, she had her will sitting on the dining room table along with her bank information (but no suicide note). Fortunately her young son has a good father who will be raising him (they were not married but shared joint custody amicably) Unfortunately, the youngster will probably have little to no memory of his mother, but the father has been very agreeable for the mother's family to be involved in his young son's life. Regardless, unless the man who killed his children had a mental disorder, IMHO, he was a weak coward.

daytonacane said:

unless the man who killed his children had a mental disorder, IMHO, he was a weak coward.

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A certain percentage of depressed persons have been long mired in drag-ass depression that they haven't the gusto to kill themselves. Then those persons get an anti-depressant drug that merely raises their energy level and that is enough to "elevate" them to act on suicide. There is no reason suicide embraces murder. That's got to be some connection to pointed hate & revenge, coupled with the totally self-centered evil darkness of knowing you will feel no blame, feel no remorse once you've offed yourself ... Once the mind goes to that place, expanded danger abounds. Additional evidence of evil is the fact that he hid his murderous desperateness so he could get his trusting young sons all to himself. Wrong, wrong.! Most certainly his wife & father-in-law have been punished.