Neighborly thirty something couple behind my granddad's house with three elementary age kids have always been helpful and friendly. My mom noticed them having some marriage problems last year but they appeared to have worked through it.
Evidently not.
My mom just learned that at 2:30 this morning the husband beat the hell out of the wife and attempted to strangle her with an extension cord. The wife got away and ran with the small kids to the neighbors for help. While waiting for police to arrive the husband committed suicide with a shotgun. Cleaning crew is working on the house now.

Come to find out he had done time at some point in life and didn't want to go back to jail.

What is wrong with people? Man, that list goes on for a while.

It's hard to answer that question without asking what is wrong with me and how could I ever do that. When I say, what is wrong with me, I say that in a rhetorical kind of way.

I would think, once a person gets to the point of trying to kill his wife and then himself, they have gotten to the point of such shame for how what have become, and what they have done, they can't allow other people to find out how low they are. Maybe it's sleeping another woman. Maybe it's an addiction to porn. Drugs or alcohol? Maybe just being an untrustworthy person and being afraid people will,find out. I don't know. God made guilt hurt for a damn good reason. It's supposed to hurt. It is supppose to make us not want to do stupid things anymore. Some people learn not to do the things that hurt themselves. Some people learn to hide the pain and keep doing the same things over and over and hope they are not discovered. Blaming other people seems to be a great way to not accept your own flaws.

I have no idea what this guy's issue was, but I can say for certain, he was afraid the light would be shined on himself that would expose him for what he truly was.

I have seen it first hand. When my brother murdered his wife, we asked the same questions. What is wrong with you. He tried to kill,himself but even failed at that too. He copped a deal to hide the underbelly of his life, so he could "shield the family". BS. He was still shielding everyone else from what he had to hide.

Doing the wrong thing and trying to hide it will kill a man. Sometimes, they just keep living though and keep hurting the people around them until they finally die themselves.

I don't know what was wrong with that guy, but I bet he lived a miserable life and it was all his own damn fault. He made bad choices. He chose to keep doing those things. He got to a point where he could not stand to hear anyone mention those things and had to make sure they didn't make him look into the mirror anymore. Maybe they were a threat to him because they talked to others about what a horrible person he was and he could not take it anymore.

Doing bad things are supposed to hurt. It is what being human means. Some learn this, some don't. The ones that don't will never be happy and will make sure the people around them are never happy.


I could be wrong, but that is my answer to the question.

Hate to hear that Brandon. Prayers up for that family and the little ones

sounds like justice was served for that pos. prayers for the wife and children, they deserve much better.

^^^This.

While I see men who beat women as POSs also, I'm not sure justice is those kids losing their dad even if he was a POS. There is nothing good about this story, and the mom and kids need lots of prayers.

That is sad. Prayers go out to mom and kids.

This^^^

Wow. Very sad.

Sad story. Prayers to the family and to Mudshark and his extended family.

Agree ^^^^

Woulda been better if he didn't blow his head off with a shotgun in their house. He was a coward and these kids have an extra stigma to screw up their heads. This whole story sux!

Sad story, i hope the wife can pick up the pieces and raise those kids. Husband was a pos

sad deal but problem solved.

That's quite an uplifting story to start the day with. I feel goooood!.

Very sad. Mudshark nailed it.