Officials, Friends Mystified by Mayor's Murder-Suicide

[one_voice]

Authorities in Coppell say Tuesday's murder-suicide was premeditated but they're still investigating a motive. Police on Friday released four suicide notes discovered when officials found the bodies of Peters, 55, and her 19-year-old daughter, Corinne, at their home, Fox affiliate KDFW reported.

"My sweet, sweet Corinne had grown completely inconsolable," one note reportedly read. "She had learned to hide her feelings from her friends. But the two of us were lost, alone and afraid. Corinne just kept on asking, 'Why won't God let me die?' We hadn't slept at all and neither one of us could stop crying when we were together."

KDFW said the the typed note was left on the kitchen table near the cremated remains of Peters' late husband, Donald, who died of cancer in 2008.

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There were other signs of trouble. Peters was facing a spending review of the use of her city-issued credit card; she had reportedly ignored repeated requests for receipts. Additionally, her $423,000 home had been posted for foreclosure on two separate occasions, and a lien had been filed against it for unpaid neighborhood association fees, the Dallas Morning News reported.

With no living witnesses to the crime, it is impossible to know what motivated Peters. But Los Angeles psychiatrist Anandhi Narasimhan says the death of Peters' husband and her alleged financial difficulties could have pushed her over the edge.

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http://www.aolnews.com/crime/article/officials-friends-mystified-by-texas-mayor-jayne-peters-murder-suicide/19558041

[AnArmyVeteran]

1. I wonder if the father was sexually abusing his daughter.

And made up the suicide note and then decided to kill her because she probably threatened to turn him in. Just an idea. Who knows.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I believe the father died in 2008.

On edit: the article states that he died of cancer in 2008.

[AnArmyVeteran]

5. No, her husband died in 08, followed by the father/daughter suicide

[seabeyond]

8. mother killed daughter then killed self. father did nothing wrong but die of cancer. nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. The MAYOR was a WOMAN.

[qazplm]

3. well seeing as how he has been dead for awhile

unless it was zombie sexual abuse I think your wonderment is misplaced.

[AnArmyVeteran]

7. The husband was dead 2 years ago, leaving the father & daughter.

What I was suggesting wasn't an accusation, just a what if. The husband died in 2008 and then the father and daughter were killed on the same day. I just mentioned the possibility of sexual abuse because it is so prevalent.

[EFerrari]

9. The mayor was Mom, not Dad.

[AnArmyVeteran]

12. Oh, okay, the initial story I saw was different. Thanks for the clarification.

[SunnySong]

11. es woman can't be evil so it must be a man ... albeit in this case a dead one.

[The Northerner]

4. Could it be that she suffered severe emotional distress after her husband's death

which may have lead her to commit this murder-suicide?

I read in a different article that the wife had trouble feeling left alone and that may have been a cause for committing such a gruesome crime.

[one_voice]

6. Seems that could have contributed...

From the link...

Some have speculated Donald Peters' death may have caused Jayne Peters to suffer from depression -- something that may have affected her relationship with her daughter, Corinne, 19.

"It was harder for them to be with each other ," Susan Wentworth, a friend of Corinne Peters, told the Dallas Morning News. "Corinne ... hung around with her friends, and Mrs. Peters didn't really have anyone to go to."



I would guess she felt alone after her husband died, and her daughter had friends to "lean" on, and the mother didn't seem to have anyone. Add to that (from earlier articles) her daughter was supposed to go off to college, and her mom postponed it. Probably because she didn't want to be "left alone" again.

Very, very, sad.

[EFerrari]

13. I wonder if the expense associated with sending her daughter to school

didn't add to all of that. That's a lot of money.

[rainbow4321]

14. This gets worse with every new detail that comes out

It was in the paper today that she killed the daughter on Monday morning and wrapped her head in towels. Her body was found in the laundry room. So, apparently, there was a day or two lapse in between the murder and the suicide.

After killing her daughter, the mayor/mother took back the rent a car she had used the city credit card to rent with and then walked home. She had given the car to her daughter as a graduation present. No word on whether the daughter thought it was a brand new, bought car or if she knew it was a rent car.

Basically, this was not a shoot you/shoot myself in an instant crime...the mom was in the house with her dead daughter's body for at least a day, which explains how she had the time to write all 4 of those notes that she left laying around (most were handwritten, one was typed).