January 21, 2008Mystery In MassachusettsI don't even know where to start with this one: on Jan. 11 a woman in Massachusetts walked into traffic on a freeway with her sister's two children in tow. They were run over by two cars and all three died. The case has been ruled a murder-suicide and while murder-suicide cases are always weird, this one is weirder than most. The woman, named Michelle Thibault, was 39 years old and a mother of two. She had what one press account called a brief episode of mental illness last year. She didn't use drugs and went to church. Apparently, she was part of a large tight-knit family--not usually the spawning grounds for this sort of craziness. Crazier still is that her sister is her twin. And why would she kill her sister's kids, but not her own? Even more, why would she kill anyone? Some experts speculate that the act could've been spurred by weird family and twin-bonding issues, but I'm not sure I buy that. This case has all sorts of questions and almost no answers, but I bet we'll hear more about it. Posted by Philip Dawdy at January 21, 2008 12:01 AM
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The newspapers said Thibault had received treatment for mental illness and that it was an isolated incident in her life, within the past year. The "no drugs or alcohol" that was referred to means that no illegal drugs or alcohol were found in her body. This tragedy has all the signs of an SSRI antidepressant murder-suicide - most of these tragedies are bizarre in nature. The fact that she was treated within this year for mental helath problems, of course, points to the use of some kind of medication or else withdrawal from medication. There are close to 200 murder-suicides involving people on SSRIs at www.ssristories.com Most of them are bizarre. When will people wake-up? Posted by: Rosie at January 21, 2008 08:23 AM I agree Rosie! When one becomes familiar with the odd, and dangerous, response that some people have to SSRIs It seems so clear that Thibault must have been on an SSRI type antidepressant, like Prozac or Paxil. I am shocked that these drugs remain legal and that they continue to be prescribed by mental health professionals. Posted by: Steve at January 28, 2008 03:42 PMPost a comment
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