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...eight years old; of a hasty marriage to a man less achieving and ultimately unfaithful; of her own suicide attempts, including one in high school that kept her out of class for a month; and most recently of money problems growing all the more pressing for a single parent. She took home $1,096 a month, but her $344 mortgage, $300 in daycare -- plus car payments, utilities and other costs -- added up to $1,284. She still owed money to the doctor who delivered Alex 14 months...
...think any parent could love their children any more than I do, and I would never even think about doing anything that would harm them. It's very painful to have the finger pointed at you when it's your children involved...
Then there was Smith's behavior. What would be a "normal" reaction for a parent faced with the loss of her children? She might have found a natural ally in Marc Klaas, who since the kidnapping and murder of his daughter Polly Klass in October 1993 has devoted himself to helping parents in a similar plight. He flew to South Carolina with Jeanne Boylan, a cognitive artist with a background in psychology who has produced remarkably accurate suspect sketches in the Klaas case and many others. The sketch of the carjacker was so generic as to be useless, and Boylan...
...Phenomenon: If kids are slain, a parent is often the culprit...
...where she built her reputation by deftly managing first the magazine's book and theater departments, then its news sections. She edited dozens of PEOPLE cover stories, including those on the Polly Klaas kidnapping and the Baby Jessica DeBoer case. The latter was particularly meaningful to Aitken, a single parent who adopted her daughter Sophie, 3, in Bulgaria after a two-year search for a child. "Lee has an amazing way of expanding the dimensions of a story, making it grow beyond the confines of its narrative," says senior editor Howard Chua-Eoan, a former PEOPLE editor himself. "She will...