There were a lot of dropped balls in this case.
Everybody is going to be an expert on all those, it just shows how the system works, and how it can be jerked around with one argument or another.
The judge who ordered "supervised visitation", the lawyers on both sides, the social workers, and others who had any chance to have done something different, even the cops, will probably have this nightmare in the back of their minds for a long long time.
Maybe next time they think someone murdered the mother of his kids, they'll settle on letting that be reason enough to arrest him and deny visitation or custody. In a clear-cut time-line that doesn't expose the kids to a danger like this. And that is going to have a huge impact on a lot of child custody fights.
Oh, I could see years of public press about how you're a killer, and then being told you're losing custody could cause some people to just snap. But it pretty much shows something snapped once before, and he's going down as guilty of Susan's murder, too.
Did's Josh's dad live there, too? There's mention of a possible second adult dead, the person who ???? sat in a gasoline-soaked house, and did nothing???? was supposed to be supervising the visitation. Case worker should have insisted on seeing him before handing the kids over. . . . but he was probably dead already.
