..and yet the murderer pumps seven shots into June as she is sat up in bed,and hardly likely to be reading the bible with Sheila from that position. Sheila had worked through this religious zealotry,and though by no means a well woman she had come to the conclusion that God loved her. Sheila also stated in the letter to Ann Eaton that she missed the boys.
Any Christian knows that suicide is a sin,and June was sure to have expostulated against it to her children..
Shall we look at that assumption a little closer, Steve. Sheila was in hospital when she wrote that somewhat zealous letter to AE. I'm not sure that she mentioned the boys but she certainly seemed energized by her relationship with God. She believed she was well enough to leave. She was hoping for a reconciliation with Colin. She must have seen her future as looking brighter than it previously had. We know she came out too soon. Who knows, maybe, had she stayed, they may well have sorted out her meds. So she left hospital with poorly balanced meds. By the time she arrived at the farm in August, hers dreams had been smashed. She wasn't well. There would be no reunion with Colin. She may have wondered if she would ever be able to escape the farm. If she went to the monestery to find God, He must not have been there for her or she couldn't find Him and ran home, terrified. Is this a woman who still believes that God loves her OR is she now thinking that God has deserted her and is punishing her because she is the Devil's child after all, which means that her children are the Devils children, too.
Was that passage some kind of instruction passed down to her, since childhood, from June. It was not coincidence that it was open at that page.