The shocking murder of the families who have committed parents

If suddenly someone wanted to make a list of the most terrible and heinous crimes, the murder of her own child, for sure, it would be in the first place. This crime shocked by the fact that the majority of families in which there is murder, on the part of seem perfectly normal, even exemplary. All family members are usually quite adequate and sane people. But this is only until such time as one of these "sane and adequate" will not kill his family with cruelty. Today we will talk specifically about such cases.

Elmer Crawford

The most notorious case of the murder of the whole family in the history of Australia took place in Port Campbell 2 July 1970, when the car was found crashed on a rocky ledge at the foot of the gorge Loch Ard. On the driver's seat was predeceased by a pregnant woman named Teresa Crawford, the bodies of three of her children - Catherine, James and Karen - were found under a tarpaulin at the rear. Their father Elmer Crawford could not find, and that's why the police suspected him of committing this terrible crime. As it turned out later, the guardians of law and order still were right. In order to kill his pregnant wife, Crawford contrived a special electrical device that, thanks to the clips, put on the earlobes to his wife at night, when she slept, that the latter died of electric shock. After Elmer finished with better half, he took up the children. Why did he do it? The answer is simple - money. His wife, when she was still alive, her husband rewrote all his money in case with her and the children something happens. But as Elmer's plan, according to which the vehicle had to avoid crashing into a rocky ledge and had to dive under the water, fell, the man launched into a run. Until now, the location of Elmer Crawford remains a mystery.

Susan Smith

October 25, 1994 a woman named Susan Smith of South Carolina contacted police to report about the kidnapping of her children some unknown black man. She claimed that the man stole her car, in which there were two of her sons, Michael and three-fourteen-month Alex. Police immediately launched a criminal catching. In addition, Susan appealed to all residents on the TV with a request that they help to find out who kidnapped her children. After some time, investigators have found no indications Susan engages in, and it was decided to send a woman to pass a polygraph. And investigators did not knowingly do that. The polygraph showed that the woman was lying. Nine days later, after a long interrogation Smith finally admitted that she made up the story of the kidnapping. Susan machine was soon found in the Long Lake with her dead children inside. She deliberately pushed the car into the lake to drown them. The woman went to such a terrible step due to the fact that she was in love with a man who was categorically against children. Apparently love for him was more than their children. She got rid of her children only to her lover was pleased. During the trial, defense counsel Susan Smith emphasized the fact that the woman is mentally ill, but the jury did not believe it. Susan Smith was sentenced for the murder of his sons to life imprisonment. She will not be able to petition for parole until 2024.

Diane Downs

In the night of May 19, 1983 a woman named Diane Downs was in the hospital in Springfield, Oregon. Her three children, Danny, Cheryl and Christie were in the backseat of her car in a terrible state. It was visible to the naked eye that they had been shot. The very same woman was wounded in the left forearm. Downs claimed that an unknown assailant tried to stop her car as she was driving on a rural road, but since he could not do it, then opened fire on her and her children. Cheryl died on the spot, but the other two children survived the attack. Danny was paralyzed, and Christie fainted from bleeding. Investigators immediately suspicious of the story Dayany, since, despite the terrible accident, she was amazingly calm, but Christie seemed frightened when her mother was beside her. Dayan beginning to be confused in his testimony than even more alarmed by the police. Once Christie is doing better, she could tell that there was no unknown person was not, and she and two children shot herself Dayan. Investigators dug up a very interesting details of personal life of this woman. As it turned out, Downs met with a married man, and he did not like children. That he did not leave of her, Diana decided to get rid of their own offspring. The woman was found guilty of an offense and sentenced to life imprisonment.