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Other Topics => Completely Off-Topic => Topic started by: Chloe on April 01, 2004, 04:25:11 pm
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TYLER, Texas (April 1) - Six days after bashing her sons' heads with rocks, Deanna Laney calmly recounted the killings and told a psychiatrist she was awaiting her children's resurrection, according to a videotape shown to the jury Thursday.
Laney's behavior was in chilling contrast to the sobbing, emotionally broken and seemingly tortured demeanor she displayed in a video made seven months after the attacks, and shown to jurors Wednesday.
In an interview videotaped days after Laney killed her two older sons and severely injured her toddler, she was wide-eyed, occasionally smiling and animated as she described events leading up to the bloodshed last Mother's Day weekend.
The tape was played as defense attorneys began their case in the trial, which began Monday.
''I feel like that I obeyed God and I believe there will be good out of this,'' she told psychiatrist Dr. Phillip Resnick. ''I feel like he will reveal his power and they will be raised up. They will become alive again.''
Laney, 39, has pleaded innocent by reason of insanity to charges of murdering 8-year-old Joshua and 6-year-old Luke and severely beating Aaron, then 14 months old.
Resnick testified Laney was suffering from psychotic delusions and was incapable of knowing right from wrong at the time of the killings, the legal standard in Texas for insanity.
''She's separated psychologically from all the horror of it and she's simply a woman on a divine mission carrying out the Lord's will,'' he said. He said the delusions began weeks before the killings.
After she was jailed - and before she took anti-psychotic medication - she drank water from the floor and out of a toilet bowl because she felt she had not carried out God's orders perfectly, Resnick said. She was not sure she should have beaten Aaron, he said.
In court, Laney's husband, Keith Laney, held his head in his hands and appeared to weep after watching his wife's calm description of the violence.
Prosecutors have portrayed the slayings as selfish acts, and maintained Laney had to have known she was doing wrong. Her first call was to 911 to summon authorities.
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i'm at a loss for words... :headshake:
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wow.
8O
*stands at a lost for words she chloe
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8O :cry: :headshake:
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thats the stupidest thing I've ever heard!
My goodness, the things people are doing these days!!! :evil:
she makes me sick.
Manda
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Beat her in the face with a rock. Let her suffer for a week or two, then drown her, or smash her in between walls.
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yes... what Cece said...
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And people wonder why religious freaks SCARE me...
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And people wonder why religious freaks SCARE me...
Sure, form your opinion based on a minority case......
:roll:
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She's not a religous freak. She's just stupid.
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Sick, just sick
Is all I can say
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*sigh*...
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Sick, just sick
Is all I can say
Exactly :(
xox
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not all really religious people are like that... my grandpa is a reverend (pretty hard to get more religious than that) and you wont see him doing crazy shit like that. that woman just has a mental disorder.
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or maybe God did tell her to do it, and society just thinks it is wrong...
Just a thought, I am not saying she should have done it...or that she is sane.
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or maybe God did tell her to do it, and society just thinks it is wrong...
Just a thought, I am not saying she should have done it...or that she is sane.
LOL
**..ring ring.....ringring....
"hello?"
"yes, this is god speaking, go and kill your kids now, please."
"Ok, I will!"**
LMAO
good one
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No, maybe something horribly worse is about to happen. Maybe that is not the worse form of death they could have suffered...or maybe it was punishment for the mother in some bizaare manner.
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Who gives a fuck if she's insane? God DAMN it. She's a person just like everyone else, and killed people just like every other murderer. She should be killed, herself. I'm so sick of people being treated differently and better, like "minorities," or mentally challenged people, or women. Urgh, they want to be equal 'til they have to pay for it. There's always a contradiction.
I hate people.
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True, CeCe.
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omg thats so absurd
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What's obsurd?
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the woman who killed a deer kid or whatever..pfft