If you think about it, if you're concealing or denying the pregnancy, you really don't have a plan. Sometimes they're denying it to themselves. |
These are extraordinarily devoted moms. I know that sounds like an oxymoron because they killed their kids, but the bottom line is they see their kids almost as an extension of themselves, like an appendage. So it only makes sense (in the mother's mind) to kill the kids, because if you're getting rid of yourself, there's a reason to get rid of the kids as well. |
Tonya Hawks so fits the pattern it's almost amazing. Typically, they're younger, and when a mom kills her kids, in the majority of cases, she almost always kills them all and she almost always has a plan to kill herself. |