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I'm surprised none of you have heard of the story. It was subject to a pretty interesting dramatisation only a year or two ago.

She may have killed her mother but doing so was not too far from self defense in my mind.

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I live in the Netherlands, probably not talked about over here. But second, I try to avoid the news. Glad I missed this one :)

She didn't kill her mother, though. She had someone else do it. I guess that's the problem, and I think he's still in prison.

Yeah, that's true. Also the preplanning aspect of it. I think if she'd have just snapped and killed her mum herself it wouldn't have gone to court. But someone who lived through that doubtlessly had a strange view of the world so judging her behaviour though any rational lens is probably slightly unfair.

Men get tasked with violence at the behest of women far too often, imo.

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