Mom's Actions Fit Pattern, but Her Motive Is a Puzzle

Dayton Daily News › February 28, 2006

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No one can fathom why Tonya Hawks would shoot and kill her three little boys -- not this doting mother who lived for her kids.

But Cheryl Meyer has seen cases like this before. "Tonya Hawks so fits the pattern it's almost amazing," said Meyer, author of Mothers Who Kill Their Children: Understanding the Acts of Mothers from Susan Smith to the Prom Mom.

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Mom's Actions Fit Pattern, but Her Motive Is a Puzzle

"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," said Meyer, who studied more than 1,000 c...

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