With the understanding that we can never assert anything with real confidence about any particular suicide, UD will nonetheless speculate that the death of a mad child-massacrist’s mother on August 1 had something to do with this emotion.
Her motive might have been a simpler one – she feared going to jail for whatever she might have contributed to her daughter’s notorious crime – but I don’t think she was likely to have been indicted. Her ex-husband, with whom the killer lived (he gave her the guns she used), is currently on trial.
But this woman – at various points in her life an addict, married to the killer’s father three times in a turbulent union clearly destructive to the killer’s mental health, and the mother of one of America’s most hideous shooters – might well have decided she’d had enough of the mess. She might have decided she didn’t want to testify in her ex-husband’s trial. She might have decided she hated herself too much to go on.