An M.D. Goes Medea on Her Kids, Breaking Bad on Her Husband
(‘Ultimate Betrayal,’ Forensic Files)
Updated with news from August 31, 2023*
The world loves to hate mothers who kill their children, and Debora Green makes an especially incendiary target.
She not only plotted her kids’ demise but also chose the most horrific possible murder weapon, a fire.
Like Medea, the Euripides antihero 2,400 years before her, Debora carried out her awful deed to punish a husband who wasn’t exactly evil but betrayed her just the same.
Cinematic story. And like Walter White 19 years after her, she used ricin poisoning as part of her bid for revenge.
No wonder Debora’s crimes, which took place back in 1995, merited an Ann Rule book in 1997, a Forensic Files episode in 1999, and a Lifetime movie in 2021.
So, amid all the drama, are there any mitigating factors? Is sympathy possible for Debora Green, a medical doctor who violated her “do no harm” oath in a way that devastated her own family?
Normal childhood. For this week, I searched for answers to those questions and also looked for more background information on Debora’s life as well as updates on her status today, the life of ex-husband Michael Farrar, and the loyalties of the family’s surviving daughter.
So let’s get going on the recap for “Ultimate Betrayal” along with extra information from internet research:
Debora Jones came into the world on Feb. 28, 1951, in Havana, Illinois, as the second of three children born to Joan and Bob Jones. The couple had married as teenagers but apparently figured out how to parent competently. Debora described her childhood as happy, according to Bitter Harvest: A Woman’s Rage, A Mother’s Sacrifice by Ann Rule.
One of the cool kids. It became apparent early on that Debora was exceptionally intelligent. The Lifetime movie, A House on Fire, pegged her IQ as above 160.
But she wasn’t a nerd. At Peoria High School, she found time for cheerleading in addition to her schoolwork.
Debora, who also played the violin and piano, got a perfect grade-point average and ended up as co-valedictorian of her class.
Next up, the attractive girl with symmetrical features completed an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering at the University of Illinois.
Two specialists. Debora married a fellow engineer named Duane M.J. Green in 1974, but the union lasted only a few years and he would later complain to police that Debora jilted him after he helped pay her tuition, according to the Kansas City Star.
While studying at the University of Kansas Medical School, she met Michael Farrar and they married in 1979. The former Eagle Scout was four years younger than his new wife but also a high achiever on the path to earning a medical degree.
Michael went into cardiology, and Debora specialized in oncology and hematology.
Nice spread. They had their first child, Tim, in 1982. Although A House on Fire portrays Tim as having only one sister, he actually had two, the younger girl named Kelly and a middle child whom Forensic Files identifies as Jennifer and Bitter Harvest calls Lissa — but her real name is Kate Farrar.
Debora and Michael had no shortage of room for their kids: By 1995, the family had settled into a six-bedroom Tudor-style house in Prairie Village, an affluent section of Kansas City, Kansas.
At some point, Debora put her career on pause to stay home with the kids, although she still did some freelance medical peer-review work out of her house.
In the spirits. She became a soccer coach so she could spend more time with her children, who attended the private Pembroke Hill School.
Although by all accounts, Debora was dedicated to her job as a full-time parent, her marriage grew strained as she grappled with depression. She reportedly leaned on alcohol as a crutch despite that her doctor had advised her not to drink while taking antidepressants and antianxiety medications.
Still, she enjoyed playing sports and having fun. In a May 1996 Redbook article, her onetime tennis clinic friend Ann Slegman recalled:
“In this sea of affluent house-wives with their smartly cropped hairdos, tennis skirts, and Steffi Graf wanna-be attitudes, Debora was refreshingly different. Heavyset with short, razor-cut hair, thick glasses that were popular among the disco set in the 1970s, faded T-shirts, and sweat shorts, she joked and laughed her way through the tennis drills.“
International affair. In an effort to prop up their deteriorating union, Michael and Debora, along with son Tim, went on a hiking and boating trip to Peru sponsored by Pembroke Hill School.
Sadly, the excursion to South America did more harm than good for the marriage. Michael met a good-looking blond registered nurse named Margaret Hacker (called Celeste Walker in the Lifetime movie) and they starting seeing each other back in the U.S.A.
Debora “saw all the telltale signs” of an affair including “a new wardrobe, new exercise equipment, and a new, distant attitude toward her and the children,” according to the Redbook account.
Toxic person. She moved into a separate bedroom and started drinking more.
Soon, it was Michael’s turn to struggle with his health. On Aug. 7, he became violently ill with bacterial endocarditis, which causes severe diarrhea. His weight dropped to 125 pounds.
He eventually needed three hospitalizations, each time after he’d eaten food Debora prepared for him (Maynard Muntzing), but at first doctors couldn’t figure out what triggered his episodes. It was 1995, long before the AMC series Breaking Bad made ricin a household name.
Confides in kids. Once his health rallied, Michael vacated the family’s mansion on Canterbury Court and rented his own place in the Georgetown apartment complex across town.
Debora turned suicidal and ended up in a psychiatric hospital after Michael called police to intervene during an argument on Sept. 25. In the emergency room, she spat on Michael, called him an obscene name, and said he’d get the kids over her dead body.
Bitter and angry, Debora had also “used the crudest language to tell the couple’s children that Michael was having sex with other women,” the Kansas City Star reported.
Woman on the side. At some point amid the melodrama, Michael discovered in Debora’s purse packets of castor beans, which contain ricin.
At first, ricin didn’t show up in Michael’s lab tests. The chemical is hard to detect because it breaks down quickly. But eventually, a large number of ricin antibodies turned up in his blood.
Michael confronted Debora on the phone about poisoning him. She denied it and they had an angry discussion. On Oct. 23, he spent time visiting girlfriend Margaret Hacker at her house.
Great escape. On Oct. 24, 1995, Debora and Michael had another argument on the phone. An hour later, the Prairie Village mansion, where she and the kids were still living, caught on fire.
Debora, 43, got out through a bedroom door to the outside.
All sources agree that 10-year-old Kate escaped by climbing onto the roof through her second-floor bedroom window and jumping to the ground without injury. But accounts vary as to whether Debora caught her as she fell or tried to catch her and failed or just watched her descend.
The dog, too. Kate and her mother stood together as emergency workers arrived on the scene. The flames were so intense the firefighters couldn’t go inside.
Golden-haired Kelly, who at age 6 already showed signs of being a gifted student, died of smoke inhalation in bed.
Tim, 13 years old and a popular soccer and hockey player, died of burns.
The family dog, a black Lab named Boomer, died of carbon monoxide poisoning, according to Medium’s True Crime Edition.
Suspicious blaze. Reports about Debora’s behavior at the fire scene differ. Some describe her as without emotion as she watched the blaze that killed two of her children. Another account said she was yelling at emergency workers, accusing them of not doing enough to save Kelly and Tim.
Authorities suspected arson and, at first, believed either parent could have done it.
Debora explained to police that on the night of the fire, she woke up to the smoke alarm, opened the bedroom door, saw flames, and ran outside.
On the intercom, she told Tim to stay in his bedroom until firefighters arrived and then she ran next door to ask for help from neighbors, Debora said. They noticed that her hair looked wet. A lab would later find singeing to her hair.
The robe. At the house, police found what looked like an empty accelerant bottle. The stairway that the children needed as an escape route had flammable liquid poured on it. The path of the fire led to Debora’s door.
Because the doorjamb to Debora’s bedroom was covered with soot, investigators believed the door was open when the fire started.
Her bathrobe, found in a ball at home, had burn marks.
Investigators ultimately concluded that Debora both set the fire and poisoned Michael with the castor beans.
Girlfriend shows up. Detectives discovered records indicating Debora had made two purchases of castor beans at Earl May Garden Centers around the time of the couple’s woes. She claimed that son Tim needed them for a science project and that Tim — who wasn’t around to defend himself — might have poisoned his dad.
By this time, Michael had asked for divorce; he filed the papers the day after the fire. Debora was not happy that gal pal Margaret Hacker attended the memorial service for the kids.
“Michael was in her bed while our house was burning down,” she complained to Slegman.
But in between the fire and the time of her arrest, Debora and daughter Kate continued to live as normal a life as possible after such a tragedy.
Neighbors unnerved. Kate got a role in a State Ballet of Missouri production of The Nutcracker.
On November 22, 1995, after Debora dropped off Kate for ballet practice at the Midland Theater in Kansas City, police arrested her and charged her with two counts of murder, attempted murder, and aggravated arson. A judge set bail at the unheard-of amount of $3 million.
The developments shocked residents of Prairie Village, who weren’t accustomed to having drama and police activity in their corner of the world.
Dedicated parent. According to an AP account, neighbors had to contend with the smell of smoke that lingered for weeks after the fire and the sight of cars slowing down to look at the charred $400,000 house at 7517 Canterbury Court.
The Kansas City Star reported that most neighbors refused to discuss the tragedy with the media. The few who did said that Debora loved her children and, while clearly the couple’s marriage had seen better days, no one imagined it would end in a burning hell.
Locals didn’t have to look at the wreckage of the once-palatial home for long. By November 1995, the city was making plans to demolish it.
Getting fluid. In preparation for the trial, the prosecution noted evidence that Debora had been reading a book about arson and literature about people murdered by family members.
Authorities believed that after the couple fought on the phone, Debora poured accelerant on Michael’s belongings and also used the fluid to cut off the children’s escape routes from the house. Her hair and bathrobe sustained burns because she used too much accelerant near her own bedroom door. Then she told Tim to stay in the house with little sister Kelly until the fire trucks arrived.
And one more thing: This was not the first time a blaze had broken out in a Green-Farrar household. On May 21, 1994, when the family lived in Missouri and was considering a relocation to Prairie Village, a fire damaged the Missouri house — reportedly right after Michael had nixed the idea of the move over concerns about the future of the marriage, according to court papers available on Murderpedia.
No legal action resulted from the Missouri fire.
Daughter faithful. But there was no escaping the consequences of the Kansas inferno. The state kept Debora in custody during court proceedings. “She’s very surprised that she would be charged with these kinds of crimes,” Ellen Ryan, one of Debora’s three lawyers, told the AP. “She lost everything in this fire including her children, everything, and she’s astounded.”
Debora’s defense lawyers floated the possibility that Tim had set the fire.
Meanwhile, Kate Farrar remained loyal to her mother. She left a vase full of roses at the courthouse for Debora, and the two talked on the phone.
Curiosity high. Michael, who had to make $5,400 monthly payments to Debora as a run-up to their divorce, showed up in court with a partially shaved head because he’d needed brain surgery to drain an abscess probably caused by the ricin poisoning. He would also need a heart operation to counteract the damage.
The murder case was such big news that true crime author Ann Rule, who wrote The Stranger Beside Me and Small Sacrifices, attended the preliminary hearing and brought an assistant to help take notes.
Prosecutors had assembled a roster of 300 prospective witnesses and planned to start out by calling 20 of them to the stand. Olathe courthouse employees outfitted a backup room for media outlets; there were only 60 seats in the courtroom
But the trial never happened.
Not her intention. On April 17, 1996, Debora Green pleaded no contest in a deal to take the death penalty off the table. The AP reported that, “in a fast monotone,” Debora read a statement maintaining that she wasn’t in her right mind on the night of the fire — her psychiatric and alcohol problems set the stage for the tragedy — and she didn’t want to compound the suffering of her family with a trial.
“She’s accepting responsibility for [the fire],” said Debora’s lawyer Michael Moore. “I don’t think she ever intended to kill her children. She’s a caring, living, breathing human being.”
On May 30, 1996, she received a sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole after 40 years for attempted murder, premeditated killing, and aggravated arson.
Hair we go. Once Debora had spent a few years behind razor wire, she began recasting her story.
According to Bitter Harvest, Debora made claims that Michael and his girlfriend might have hired someone to start the fire. She also told Ann Rule that the homewrecking Margaret drove Margaret’s former husband to suicide.
Debora also noted that she cut off her singed hair not to obscure it as evidence but rather to look her best for Kelly and Tim’s funeral.
About-face. In 2000, Debora briefly tried a new tack. She requested new sentencing based on a claim that her no-contest plea to arson resulted from her own confusion caused by prescription psychiatric drugs.
She would also need to defend herself over the ricin allegations. “No one in an alcoholic fog would have been capable of the intricate planning it took to locate, purchase, and grind up the deadly castor beans,” Ann Rule wrote in Bitter Harvest.
Once Debora realized the motion might put capital punishment back in play, she withdrew it.
Too late. Four years later, she made a bid to have her plea thrown out because new advances into arson investigations refuted the pour pattern evidence against her, she contended. The fire might have come from a vanity in her bedroom that ignited on its own, Debora said.
Kate Farrar, then 19, attended a hearing on that matter — and sat with Debora’s supporters, according to the Kansas City Star. Michael Farrar showed up as well but sat away from his daughter. In 2005, District Judge Peter Ruddick ruled against Debora.
In 2015, a judge scuttled Debora’s request for resentencing because she based it on recent state and federal rulings on “Hard 40” prison terms that didn’t apply retroactively. Johnson County District Judge Brenda Cameron also noted that Debora understood the terms of her plea deal when she agreed to it.
Author touched. Today, Debora Green resides in Topeka Correctional Facility in medium-high security, with the first prospective release date in 2035. According to the Kansas Department of Corrections, she has a job in prison. At 5-foot-4 and 188 pounds, she’s not staging any hunger strikes.
So does Debora Farrar deserve any sympathy? To this writer, it sounds like a long-sustained period of temporary insanity resulting from her husband’s infidelity, her clinical depression, and the loss of a career that brought her respect, personal fulfillment, and a high salary.
“Even though I could not believe she was innocent,” wrote Anne Rule, “I thought her tears [for her children] were genuine.”
New wife. As for the husband she tried to eliminate, Michael Farrar survived and worked as a cardiologist at North Kansas City Hospital for 29 years. He recently served as medical staff president and enjoyed traveling, bird hunting, dining out, and learning more about history, according to a recent interview on the hospital’s website.
And what of the extramarital relationship that helped fuel the modern-day Greek tragedy? According to Medium writer Lori Johnston, Michael Farrar and Margaret Hacker broke up. He ended up marrying a lawyer, and daughter Kate Farrar eventually went to live with them — but at the same time, Kate, now 36, still believes in her mother’s innocence, according to Medium.
*Michael Farrar died on August 23, 2023, at the age of 68. Media outlets have yet to disclose his cause of death.
If you can’t find the movie “A House on Fire” on TV, you can watch it on Amazon for $2.99. I was able to see it on the Lifetime website free of charge, but the link no longer works.
That’s all for this post. Until next time, cheers. — RR
P.S. Read Part II, ‘Dr. Debora Green: Tennis and Madness’
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One parent is always under the insane delusion of killing their kids just to spite their spouse…
I remember this Forensic Files episodes and it made me so sad that she told her children to stay and wait for help. How abhorrent! They obey their mother, what else? It is hard to fathom.
She is beyond evil… Look at her eyes…. Those poor kids and dogs…. This case always tears me up .. don’t think I cld handle the movie….. I did read the book… She’s an awful creature.
Just a little correction to this article – Prairie Village (location of the fire) is a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri not Kansas City, Kansas.
Prairie Village is in Overland Park, Kansas
Prairie Village is in Kansas. They lived off of 75th Street between Mission Rd. & Belinder. Prairie Village is a suburb with zip code 66208.
Horrible slaughter of a family by insane mother, genius IQ but a true sociopath and pathological liar who murdered her kids to punish husband/father. Tim suffered awful burns to die like fires of hell. No one wants to believe a mother would kill her kids like this. Debora’s right where she belongs. Dr Farrar is correct that Debora thinks she can outwit everyone with her lies. Dr. Farrar bought her 2 beautiful homes. She burned them both. She was a sick, evil woman, a severe alcoholic. I feel sad for Kate the survivor.
Wow, the fact you say he bought her 2 homes probably highlights part of what started her on her psychotic breaks. She was a genius and highly successful in her career — the world validated her for that. Then she has kids & is told by the world she needs to be validated by being the perfect wife & mother & home maker. She was hanging onto this idea of perfection while secretly watching him be praised for ‘taking care of his family’ so well. I don’t condone her actions in any way but I can see that she isn’t the only one to blame for them. The world & society’s views on what makes a woman perfect and the pressures this creates, which these women then channel into addictions & more often than not into anger & resentment that goes psychotic can also play into the blame game. I wonder if she was the ‘man’ in the relationship would her life of taken the same horrific path.
Her treating physician reported that she had been found to have the emotional capabilities of “a very young child,” that her intelligence had generally allowed her to compensate for her limited emotional ability in day-to-day life, but that the external stressors of her impending divorce and interpersonal conflict had overwhelmed her ability to compensate.
Psychiatrist Michael Stone identifies Green as showing characteristics of psychopathy, borderline personality disorder, and narcissistic personality disorder.
It’s speculated that while she could meet the diagnostic criteria for several mental illnesses, including antisocial personality disorder (strictly speaking not a mental illness, characterised by impulsive, irresponsible and often criminal behaviour), the fact that her crimes were a combination of impulsive — arson and the murder of her children — and premeditated — the poisoning of Michael Farrar — make any mental illness difficult to diagnose, in the sense than planning requires the rationality and awareness she exhibited. She was not on this analysis delusional: she knew what she was doing and its gravity. Note that psychopathy (neuropsychiatric disorder marked by deficient emotional responses, lack of empathy, and poor behavioural controls, commonly resulting in persistent antisocial deviance and criminal behaviour) is NOT the same as psychosis, and the citing of ‘psychotic break’ is inaccurate. She was not found to have ‘lost touch with reality.’
I suggest the evidence is less that she succumbed to the socio-cultural pressures your feminist perspective considers than that she was natively psychologically dysfunctional prior to the negative marital experiences but that this was indeed ‘covered’ or ‘compensated’ by intelligence and high achievement, though the dysfunction progressively emerged in adulthood. Michael Farrar said that she had an explosive temper elicited by minor slights evident in the early stage of their relationship prior to marriage, which he overlooked then but was in retrospect a sign of maladaptiveness (emotional immaturity).
On this analysis she was a psychological ‘mess’ from childhood – hidden in college but which emerged when she had to relate maturely. The ‘self-medicating’ may have exacerbated this. No-one else can be blamed (except for the routine blame that an unfaithful partner may have to accept in creating or contributing to marital failure – though the reason for the unfaithfulness in this case may point back to Green).
She was not a ‘victim’: of husbands (no suggestion of abuse) nor society. It seems she was not psychologically equipped for marriage and children, nor as a doctor (medical professionals who worked with her described her as being distant and cold towards her patients – which is unsurprising having difficulty relating).
It’s perhaps significant that she initially intended to be an engineer rather than dr but changed tack. Engineers are interested in things; drs in people.
Great insight, thank you.
It’s a horrendous and deeply tragic case (as all are when children are killed by intention or gross recklessness). While Green might otherwise — just — have been regarded as mad, not bad, it was the premeditation in poisoning her husband that told a reasonable jury she was a murderer, not merely ‘delusional.’ It seems to me, anyway, that the verdict was correct (I don’t know if there are those who defend her on mental health grounds…) I don’t care that she tried to blame dead son Michael for the fire, together with flailing around for others means to blame. A mother who killed her children should be so remorseful that that she accepts her fate, yet Green has tried a number of strategies to shorten her sentence or get a new trial.
Quite apart from nearly poisoning her husband to death, assuming she set the fire and at the very least showed total disregard for the possibility of killing her children, she is where she belongs and, in my view, is not fitted for parole.
Yet another great read! I love getting these especially with the added tidbits of info. Very interesting. The poor woman’s recent mugshot looks like it’s from a Wax Museum. What a waste of a life. So intelligent yet so stupid. Well you know what they say-kind hearts are more than coronets. Not exactly apropos of this case but I trust I’ll get my point across. Nice to see the husband is living a good life and let’s hope him and his daughter still have a relationship. Seems like the daughter thinks her Mom is innocent. I won’t pass judgement. That has to be a tough position.
Thanks, Joe — so glad you enjoyed the post! To the daughter, it’s the only mother she has…
Having worked with Dr. Farrar for numerous years prior to the fire, he showed dedication to his patients and always respectful to the staff. I pray that she is never released. The torture that she inflicted on the family will forever haunt them.
Thanks for sharing your first-hand experience — am glad to hear that Farrar is kind to his patients and colleagues!
He was a cheating lying husband who caused Debra to go into psychotic breakdowns. Imagine your world as you know it coming to an end because of someone you thought was the one person who was supposed to be your life partner. He inflicted massive amounts of mental torture on his wife, which contributed to the fire.
When we went to visit Debra with her parents and daughter on family visitation day, she was happy and on medications. I was only 15 at the time. It’s ridiculous that she received such a long sentence whenever she wasn’t in the right state of mind.
I can go into psychosis even though I’m on medications, whenever I’m overwhelmed with stress, depression, and anxiety. She is not a narcissist in response to a reply I read. Also it’s rude when people think negatively about others for not crying or showing what they think is the appropriate emotional response. Some people just can’t express themselves the way others can. Because of how society views people with mental disorders, I don’t tell anyone about mine. Sometimes you have to think illogically to make sense of things.
She really did believed the fire dept was going to save the other 2 kids.
Cousin of Kate and Debra.
Correct, Margaret was not his first affair. He dumped Margaret coldly with no explanation except that she was a reminder to his daughter of what happened. He soon (if not already found his replacement with the attorney).
The following is an excerpt from Lori Johnson’s article in the True Crime Edition. It breaks my heart loving children and dogs the way I do. Yet, I find some consolation in the fact that the children, Tim & Kelly spent their last night with their beloved pets, Boomer, black Labrador and Russell, Greyhound. They all died together in the fire. I pray they are all together forever in Heaven …..
— Around 3 a.m., firefighters signaled they had found a body, which was relayed to detectives. Almost immediately, word was revised that the body was that of Russell, the family’s greyhound. The sense of relief did not last long. Thirteen-year-old Tim Farrar was found fifteen to twenty feet beyond the front door, resting on the joists of the room. His body was badly burned and it appeared that he, along with his bed, had fallen from one of the upper stories and landed in the living room. Six-year-old Kelly Farrar was found in her bedroom, lying in the lower bunk of a bunk bed, covers pulled up to her waist. Unlike her brother, she did not appear to have wakened or struggled at all, but died of carbon monoxide in her sleep. Boomer, the family’s black Lab, was beneath her bed. He too had died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Rest in peace, sweet angels.
The details are heartbreaking but I’m glad you sent this in — I hadn’t seen it.
I read Ann Rule’s book and saw Lifetime movie. No one “drove” her to this – she was always a malignant narcissist. She didn’t even sleep with him on their wedding night which showed she married him for convenience. In the movie, it showed he wanted her to be Stepford wife – that’s not what happened – she lost one job after another for drug and alcohol abuse and offending patients with her nastiness long before he had an affair. I am a feminist – but women can be abusers – and she was abusing her position, colleagues, and patients long before she met this guy. He was another victim..
Interesting points of view…
Agreed! Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Just a little correction to this article – Prairie Village (location of the fire) is a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri not Kansas City, Kansas.
Respectfully, I’ve been to Prairie Village. It’s in Kansas, although it does border on the Missouri state line.
It bothers me when people put “dogs” and “children” in the same sentence, as though they are the same. They are not.
You’re right, dogs are much more important.
FFS get a life…if this is what upsets you after reading such a tragic case, you need to get some help.
She was supposed to have a hearing today on if the forensics were flawed in 1995 on the arson.
I think she should have been executed for first degree murder of her children and attempted murder of her husband. The evidence provided in the book, “a bitter harvest” tells the story of a malignant narcissist who presumed she was entitled to fidelity and support regardless of her selfish (and sexually indifferent, withholding and rejecting behavior towards her husband), and abusive exploitative public scenes and tantrums when enroute to travel destinations with her family.
Husband, Michael Farrar DID attempt to tell her at those times he wanted to separate and possibly divorce her. However she created such horrific scenes within the household and in front of the children that the second time he knew he would believing. He intended to wait until after an important. Family trip to Peru with his son so. As not to spoil this one last occasion. He met and became very attracted to another parent with similar loveless challenges in her own marriage. While on that trip however he did not consummate that relationship until after he had returned home and was in the process of obtaining a separation.
He believed that she was happier when he was not in the home because she acted miserable and abusive as long as he was there.
Debora’s Continuous complaints and scenes in their home convinced him she was happier when he was not there. ( Certainly – he was — and who can blame him!)
Prior to the final breaking point, Michael made every effort to remain loyal and make his marriage work. He bought Debora two beautiful homes, ( Both of which she destroyed with fire as manipulative effort to force him to do what she what she demanded.)
Michael was “away from home “long hours” because
he had to work many hours to provide the lifestyle she took for granted, because she was unable to generate any income as a doctor due to her Narcissistic personality disorder which alienated patients and other doctors in the practices she joined. She lost board certification because she refused to do any studying to maintain current knowledge standards in her field of practice.
As if that wasn’t enough Debora took out all of her emotional problems against her husband by verbally abusing him to their children in vile and disgusting language and complaints and descriptions that should never have been discussed with her children.
She told them repeatedly that their father was going to leave all of them so that he could have sex with another woman, that their father was leaving THEM (rather than HER!)
The adult and the one personally accountable for and with any ability to make choices or take action to resolve HER issues in her marital relationship. She could have sought psychological and spiritual counseling and obtained a divorce in order to continue living comfortably on the $5,400 monthly alimony and child support, he was paying while she continued to live in the beautiful home he also paid for.
These misguided psychiatrists and or psychologists who reduce the malignancy of her self serving behavior to this fantasy description of being nothing but a child with a hundred sixty IQ.
Essentially.
A person without responsibility due to an entirely FICTITIOUS THEORY that arbitrarily assigns her a mental age which magically VACATES any personal responsibility for the
Self-evidently.
Pre-meditated, ENTIRELY Self Serving, Vicious Murderous Evil
Of her actions.
She is a total LIAR, an early example Of the psychotic predators that are protected and nurtured by a contemporary practice of
making excuses for unconscionable and clearly criminal acts of violence and exploitation of GENUINELY innocent virtuous law abiding people.
There is simply no excuse for her monstrous criminal behavior and murder of two children (and attempted murder of the third, Kate) who only survived because she had the strong Survival instincts which compelled her to get out of the burning house and jump in spite of her fear of heights to her own survival from the roof of the garage to the ground where her mother failed To make any effort to catch this child as she fell. I understand the daughter’s loyalty – because the reality of a mother who would murder your brother and sister and attempted to allow you to die also as a consequence of injuries from falling from a height with no help from your mother to prevent your becoming fatally injured in the fall)
Remember that in the interview with law enforcement — before it was known whether her teenage son and youngest daughter would be successfully rescued – Debora calmly talked and laughed with the police -referring to her son, Tim, as her “former* “teenaged son” within what could have been mere hours of his yet to be determined tragic death by maternal MURDER.
Later at the trial, she attempted to blame that now- confirmed — dead son for everything she was forensically and evidently guilty of ( As if that twelve-year-old boy had any motive to attempt to murder his father or burn down his house and risk murdering his entire family when he had no Where to go and no concievable personal survival exit strategy!!!!!)
There are far too many evil criminals Wwo are given long sentences while everyone is paying attention at a trial who are being let out as little as six years later with no regard for public safety Or the heroic efforts of law enforcement officers in identifying and detaining these predators.
At the very least she should never again be released.
Humanity cannot neglect the centuries of knowledge And begin to believe ridiculous. Things such as anybody can be rehabilitated and certainly people with these serious psychological or spiritual disorders. Can never again B rendered free on their own recognizance. They are not capable of. Controlling their own impulses. which is why
I believe in capital punishment,
As humanely as possible ( For the sake of the people who have to do the unpleasant work of execution) get them off planet and let God deal with them.
Vengeance is for God to mete out, removal from the vicinity of any flock they WOULD prey on, is ours… Not out of vengeance but common sense and self defense.
When evil criminals actually are unceremoniously removed from their own lives, the probability of deviantly inclined people who are on the fence crossing the line – will sharply decrease. But more importantly, children, and people who are not armed to the teeth in a constant mode of self defense, might be able to fulfill their own lives purpose without fear of senseless untimely death at the hands of a miscreant.