Manuel Gehring
Cases that involve the murders of children are always the most difficult for me whether it is to read a book about a case or to research them to publish here. I belong to several true crimes groups and so I know that I am not alone in this feeling. Children who are murdered by strangers are hard, but not as hard as those committed by parents or those in a parental position. That being said I have also blogged about several child murders. I have told the stories of many children who were removed from abusive homes only to be placed in a foster home, or even adoptive home that was even more abusive considering it ended in their deaths. I have blogged about cases where child protective services are allegedly actively involved in cases and yet still something happens. The Susan Powell case comes to mind. Authorities suspected her husband as being involved in her disappearance and while her parents had legal guardianship of her children their father, Josh, was granted supervis...