Disturbances: Surreal Thoughts On Real Events #3
Today’s Headline, Wednesday, May 29, 2007
by Kurt Newton
© 2007 by Kurt Newton
All Rights Reserved
TEXAS MOTHER HANGS HERSELF, 3 CHILDREN
Wow, now there’s an eye-grabbing headline. Might as well say CRAZY BITCH DECIDES TO OFF SELF, TAKES CHILDREN WITH HER. You know, just in case it gets kind of lonely on the other side. Heck, the Egyptians did it when they went about mummifying their pets in preparation for their cruise across the river Styx. You think ol’ Fido or Puss N’ Boots had any say in the matter?
With a headline like that, I had to read on.
HUDSON OAKS, Texas - Alejandra Estrada broke into her sister’s trailer because she wanted to know why she hadn’t shown up at work. Inside, she found Gilberta Estrada and Gilberta’s four young daughters hanging in a closet.
Gilberta Estrada, 25, and three of the girls were dead. The youngest, 8-month-old Evelyn Frayre, was alive but in dire need of medical care.
Okay, not only do babies have strong necks (to hold up that humongous head of theirs), they have the advantage of having low body weight below the neck. Remember that. Don’t ever try to hang a baby. The physics are against it. A quick shake will do. Again, physics. That big head.
Did I want to read more? Hell, yeah.
Alejandra Estrada pulled the infant from the noose and called 911. The child was listed in good condition at a Fort Worth hospital, Parker County Sheriff Larry Fowler said.
Fowler said the hangings appeared to be murder-suicide because the doors were locked from the inside and a relative said Gilberta Estrada had been depressed. He said they had last been seen alive Monday afternoon outside the trailer and things had appeared normal.
Filly Echeverria, who said she was the children’s godmother, identified the dead children as Maria Teresa Estrada, Janet Frayre, and Magaly Frayre. Authorities said the children were 5 years, 3 years and 21 months, respectively.
After hanging her daughters with pieces of clothing tied around a wooden board that served as a clothes rod, Estrada apparently looped the noose around her neck, leaned into it and buckled her knees to kill herself, Fowler said.
Say what? I had to read that last line twice. I guess you could conceivably tie a noose around your neck and simply lean forward, pass out, and suffocate. Growing up I used to think I could pick myself up. I also thought the people in the television could see me.
I read on…
He [Fowler] said Gilberta Estrada had won a temporary restraining order in August against Gregorio Frayre Rodriguez, believed to be the father of Evelyn and some of the other youngsters, after a domestic violence incident involving Estrada.
Fowler said the couple had stopped living together in February. Tuesday was the first emergency police call to the trailer, and Fowler said there was no evidence that Frayre abused the girls.
A telephone listing for Frayre, 38, could not immediately be located.
Ah-hah! Here we have it, in black and white. Poor Gilberta, after years of abuse and pumping out child after child—5 years, 3 years, 21 months, and 8 months—decided she had had enough. She had literally spent the last six years of her life bare foot and pregnant and she blamed Gregorio, who from this point forward will be referred to as Horndog, for not only ruining her life but not allowing her shapely figure to bounce back between pregnancies.
Domestic violence?
It’s a wonder poor, hormone-addled Gilberta didn’t take a steak knife to Horndog’s wiener as he slept off another tequila-laced romantic evening in and amongst the piles of dirty diapers and sour-smelling baby bottles. Instead she chose to take it out on little Maria, Janet, and Magaly, removing even the remotest possibility that they would end up like her. Also removing the possibility that they would handle things differently if they should.
But I digress…as does the story.
Texas has seen several children killed by their mothers in recent years.
Less than five years ago, another Hudson Oaks family was torn apart when Dee Etta Perez, 39, shot her three children, ages 4, 9 and 10, before killing herself.
Andrea Yates drowned her five children in the family’s Houston bathtub in 2001. In 2003, Deanna Laney beat her two young sons to death with stones in East Texas, and Lisa Ann Diaz drowned her daughters in a Plano bathtub. Dena Schlosser fatally severed her 10-month-old daughter’s arms with a kitchen knife in 2004.
WTF? Sounds like that episode of the X-Files where the government was testing a military gas on an apartment complex and everyone began killing each other.
Texas.
The place where two of our last three presidents come from.
Texas.
Home of the Texas Medical Center, the largest concentration of research and health care institutions on the planet.
Texas.
Where the mysterious crash of a “great airship” into a windmill in Aurora, Texas, in 1897, made national headlines. Five years BEFORE Wilbur and Orville took flight! The alien body, the scattered debris, the hieroglyphics, the MILITARY COVER UP!
Texas.
Home of black oil. Need I say more.
Texas. It figures.
Comment by pegleg on 1 June 2007:
From wikipedia: “In an interview with Time magazine in 1979, Etta Pegues claimed that S.E. Hayden, the local correspondent who sent the news of the incident to nearby newspapers in Dallas and Fort Worth, “Wrote it as a joke and to bring interest to Aurora. The railroad bypassed us, and the town was dying”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_Texas_UFO_Incident)
Pegleg
Comment by kurtnewton on 1 June 2007:
Pegleg — then you must have also read that Etta Pegues was once the jilted lover of S. E. Hayden. The interview in Time in 1979 was conducted shortly after Etta was released from the Aurora Institute for the Criminally Insane where she had spent fifty-three years for killing her four children with a pair of knitting needles. She claimed the six-foot rabbit who lived in her bedroom closet told her to do it.
Comment by Greg F. Gifune on 1 June 2007:
So…you’re saying six foot rabbits don’t exist then?
Comment by kurtnewton on 1 June 2007:
Only after a pitcher of Captain Morgan and lime juice smoothies!
Comment by Shane Staley on 2 June 2007:
Just don’t anyone go telling Mark Beauchamp that 6-foot rabbits don’t exist. It would break his heart and give him a terrible identity crisis.