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What Mary Winkler claimed about the baby was that earlier the same evening, her husband had tried to quiet the baby by putting his hand over the baby's nose and mouth.
I don't believe this ever happened. The reason is what she says she did next. She says she and her husband had an argument about "Why he was so mean to her all the time." If my husband tried to smother my baby, you can guarantee we'd be arguing about him smothering the baby, not about him being mean TO ME. Not to mention that this alleged smothering wasn't something Mary mentioned in her confession, when she said that Matt had never abused the children. Mary's testimony does not hold together.
I do believe Mary's testimony that her husband asked her to wear clear plastic platform heels and a wig during sex, and that he sometimes watched internet porn. Gosh, let's kill all the husbands who sometimes look at internet porn and like kinky sex! Will anyone be left?
Regarding how hard or easy it is to punch someone to death. Based on how own somewhat limited experience working with battered women, I'd say that a lot of severe injuries during fights aren't caused by fists, but by the person falling. Falling into a window or mirror is bad news. So is cracking a head on a floor or the corner of a table. It's far too easy for what seems like a harmless shove to turn into a murder case if the person being shoved falls and hits her head. There is no safe level of hitting someone.
I don't think I agree that humor today is meaner, just directed at different targets. When I was growing up, racist jokes were common. Now I hardly ever hear them.
The story about the two people in the park is horrifying. Am I supposed to be sorry that the people who watched someone die and didn't do a thing have difficulty getting over it?
