Sorry but its Usually the Husband

I follow the news pretty closely and after reading about the murders of a wife and children in Columbia Ill my first thought was "it was the husband." Secretly I hoped and prayed that it wasn't. Surely a man would not kill his own family. It had to be a stalker, or a jealous lover on the brink of insanity, or possibly a co-worker who had been mistreated and wanted revenge. It couldn't be a father and husband, not in our area of the midwest, and not in a quiet surburban town. Yet I knew clincally, logically, once I removed emotion from the equation, it was the husband. I knew it day one after the crime happened. The fact is that it is almost always the husband or boyfriend. This would be no exception. This case pointed to the husband from day 1. As a clinician who is supposed to have an explanation for these events, I have my theories but again there is no explanation good enough that would bring resolution to the tragedy. My theories include, threat of divorce, having his kids taken away and financial problems as well life insurance money, or perhaps he is just a sociopath who acted without conscience. It does not matter what the reason is, because there is no explanation that would shed light on such a tragedy.