Warrant: Cobb toddler’s dad researched child deaths inside vehicles

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39. EXCELLENT article, tblue37, thank you!

This is one of those sad, awful news stories that's especially conducive to making snap-assumptions about guilt -- or even skipping the assumptions entirely and jumping straight to deciding the best way of torturing the accused to death.

IMHO (and with no insult to guilt-assumers intended) the article you link to is a total MUST READ for those of us who prefer instead to withhold judgment -- at least for now -- and burden ourselves with additional, potentially-guilt blurring facts and information ... for example:

Todd Costello of Medina, Ohio, lost his son, Tyler, in 2002 after forgetting the 9-month-old in the back of his car in his office parking lot. He's had to find a way to live with the guilt. "On that morning," he says, "I had to make brief trips from building to building, and it took me past my car. But from that position, you couldn't see into the car. It was just a ball of windshield glare. I know that is a fact. But in my dreams, that scenario changes a little. I can see my son in the car. I wave, and I say, 'I'll be right back, Tyler.'"

It DOES seem hard to believe Harris could so quickly forget his son was in the car, however:

Several people ... have driven from their workplace to the day-care center to pick up the child they’d thought they’d dropped off, never noticing the corpse in the back seat.

It IS daming that security camera footage shows Harris making a lunchtime visit to his car, opening the front passenger door and putting something inside, but:

Then there is the Chattanooga, Tenn., business executive who must live with this: His motion-detector car alarm went off three separate times, out there in the broiling sun. But when he looked out, he couldn’t see anyone tampering with the car. So he remotely deactivated the alarm and went calmly back to work.

And since Harris' family and legal reps are all refusing to comment, there IS nothing but his seemingly-dubious statements to police to support his innocence, and yet (from an article about little Cooper's funeral which was held this past Saturday):

Harris' wife Leanna said "Ross is, was and will be a great daddy," to which family and friends gave a standing ovation, Leanna told the crowd she is not angry with her husband over their son's death.

Around 200 people attended the services for 22-month-old Cooper. Church officials told us the family would not make any statements to the media. But inside the funeral they spoke glowingly of Ross Harris who was listening via speakerphone from Jail.

Yes, it IS highly incriminating that Harris searched the internet re: children dying in overheated cars, but that sure seems like an extremely risky and inexact (not to mention unimaginably heartless) way to murder his infant son. But then, I don't have kids and I'm incapable of murder ...

One final, glaringly missing piece of this puzzle is motive. Of the dozen or so articles I've read about this case so far, not ONE has ventured so much as a single word as to WHY Harris would commit such a terrible crime.

Maybe there's at least a shred of validity to some of these points ... or maybe it's all just desperate bullshit I've concocted because I've reached my limit and can't face even one more example of how monstrous humans can be ... I don't know ...