Author and owner of Captain Obvious' Crime Site. I have been blogging in one form or another since the days of Fidonet and BBSes in the early nineties. Started blogging in it's current form around 10 years ago and got seriously interested in crime in 2005, about the time Natalee Holloway vanished. I've been hooked ever since.
  • http://www.mydebtandcredit.com Jessica Bradbury

    I find it specially horrible that she killed her son. It is really a sad reality knowing that a mother actually killer her own flesh and blood.

  • debbi

    Richard,
    Eryn was separated from her husband in 2000, shortly after her son was born. She supported herself and her son by delivering newspapers. She would show up, her son in tow for her nightly route. I remember Eryn as a loving mother. I have compassion for her. She couldn’t reach out for help. She couldn’t reach out for help. Now she is living her hell. Isn’t that enough? Who are we to judge. I think of the ancient colliseums where the public cheered at the killing of criminals. Haven’t we evolved?

  • Rapewaffle

    >I’ll be one of the cheering throng of bloodthirsty bastards in the stands.

    That’s because you, personally, are a knuckle-dragging douche, not because civilisation hasn’t evolved.

    There’s no excuse for what this woman did. Family annihilators follow a very similar pattern, and while they don’t kill their children out of selfishness but sincere desire to do whatever they consider ‘for the best’, they don’t seem to appreciate that it’s not their decision to make. They are murderers, and there’s no getting around that.

    But selfish? No. Self-absorbed, maybe, but that’s not the same thing.

    Cold hearted? The suggestion is absurd. Tormented, yes.

  • http://www.mydebtandcredit.com/ Jessica Bradbury

    I find it specially horrible that she killed her son. It is really a sad reality knowing that a mother actually killer her own flesh and blood.

  • debbi

    Richard,
    Eryn was separated from her husband in 2000, shortly after her son was born. She supported herself and her son by delivering newspapers. She would show up, her son in tow for her nightly route. I remember Eryn as a loving mother. I have compassion for her. She couldn’t reach out for help. She couldn’t reach out for help. Now she is living her hell. Isn’t that enough? Who are we to judge. I think of the ancient colliseums where the public cheered at the killing of criminals. Haven’t we evolved?

  • Rapewaffle

    >I’ll be one of the cheering throng of bloodthirsty bastards in the stands.
    That’s because you, personally, are a knuckle-dragging douche, not because civilisation hasn’t evolved.
    There’s no excuse for what this woman did. Family annihilators follow a very similar pattern, and while they don’t kill their children out of selfishness but sincere desire to do whatever they consider ‘for the best’, they don’t seem to appreciate that it’s not their decision to make. They are murderers, and there’s no getting around that.
    But selfish? No. Self-absorbed, maybe, but that’s not the same thing.
    Cold hearted? The suggestion is absurd. Tormented, yes.