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There were notes from the shooter found with the bodies of the second wife and the children, and the NYT quotes one police official as saying that they mentioned the murders of his first wife and mother-in-law.
My mother-in-law has told me that the ex confessed to planning the "accidental" pregnancy because my husband was talking of leaving her, and she hoped it would keep him around.
Cook did a great job in Volume 1 of demonstrating how flawed Franklin was as a husband; how he relinquished all control to his mother and absented himself from the brutal conflicts that resulted between ER and her mother-in-law.
British playwright David Hare, criticized in the past for his "preachy politics," is said to have finally found "his way beyond polemic" (John Lahr, The New Yorker ). Hare's new play about a self-centered film critic, his wife, and his mother-in-law is hailed as a "coup de théâtre " (Matt Wolf, Variety ), both for its social critique (of the amorality of the news media) and for its sensitivity "about such personal matters as loss, grief and stoical survival" (Benedict Nightingale, the London Times ). Hare's enthusiasts declare it time for canonization.
The woman in question was my mother-in-law, whose alcoholism was then in remission.