The article I picked from The Washington Post is about Sarah Henderson, a woman in Texas who shot her two children. Jacob Henderson, the father of the 5 and 7-year-old girls had called the police at 11:30 that evening because he believed his wife was suicidal. A few minutes later he called again and said that his wife was fine and not to send anyone out. At about 2:30 in the morning the woman’s husband called the police yet again, this time because his wife had shot their daughters. In the 9-1-1 audio, the wife can be heard saying “What did I do” & “Why did I do that”. The article says that in court the woman admitted that she had been planning to kill her children for two weeks, but she also planned to kill her husband along with them, but …show more content…
She clearly made the decision to do so two weeks prior when she planned to kill her daughters as well as her husband. The article also mentioned that Sarah’s wife Jacob had called the police because he believed she was suicidal. According to Cornish & Clarke in reference to rational choice theory Sarah Henderson’s suicidal tendencies may be explained of previous experiences, which would make her decision to commit suicide and/or kill her daughters a decision that was not purely …show more content…
The article states that the first time the police were called it was because Jacob Henderson believed his wife was suicidal and then later after she shot her daughters she was trying to strangle herself and pry the gun away from her husband. Clearly there is something uncontrollably abnormal within her brain to make her go through with her plan to kill her children and attempt to kill her husband and herself. In my opinion, a major factor of this crime in regard to Sarah’s psychological problems is that her crime was premeditated rather than in the heat of passion. It is hard for me to believe that a mother who has no cognitive dysfunction would be able to plan to kill her children for two weeks before actually committing the crime and then show no remorse about it in