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cherokeepatti Wow, Cherokee, that's awful. I can, unfortunately, relate. I believe my mother killed my father as he lay dying in a hospital Intensive Care unit. It's a long time ago and an attorney told me it's too late now to do anything about it or get the police to investigate since my father died in 1983 and my mother died in 2003. At the time, the circumstantial evidence plus what I knew about my mother and her behavior at the time, convinced me but it would've taken more to convince a judge or jury. However, I was afraid to do anything at the time since everyone always believed my mother about everything and me about nothing. And I feared what my mother would do to me if I went to the police and she wasn't convicted. Now that I am older, and with a college degree in Criminal Justice, I realize that an active police investigation could've turned up quite a bit of evidence. Besides my mother, I believe 2 other people were involved and they had a lot to lose by not telling the police the truth. I think at least one of the two would've cracked and implicated my mother to avoid being charged with being an accessory to a murder. Too bad I didn't know all of that back then. Their testimony in a courtroom would've cooked my mother. And saved their medical careers (one was a nurse, the other an intern). I believe my mother tortured my father on his deathbed as part of a deathbed security interrogation and then, probably using an agreed upon hand gesture, she ordered the intern to turn off Dad's oxygen or in some other way, cause his death so it would appear he died of heart failure. I think if I'd had the knowledge and the courage to get the police (and probably, inevitably, the FBI) involved, neither the young intern nor the nurse, would've taken the chance of having their lives and careers ruined over their involvement. I'm old now, a clear example of hindsight is 20-20.
