. I also noted that there was no evidence of her faking or exaggerating her symptoms, either in the testing results or from my interviews of family members, all of who corroborated her developing break with reality during the months before the homicide.
Though their marriage had been stable for years, the prosecution had painted the marriage between Janice and Richard as deeply troubled, with Richard as a drug abuser and Janice as an angry wife. Richard had testified that he was drug-free for years and that Janice was a loving wife and mother until she became mentally ill, a perspective shared by family members during the trial. None of this evidence helped: The jury found Janice sane at the time of the killing.
At a news conference after the verdict was reached, the prosecutor told the press that Janice killed Kimberly because “she was angry and selfish … a woman desperate to get back at her husband ... ”Friedman, Susan Hatters, R. C. Hall, and Renée M. Sorrentino."Commentary: women, violence, and insanity." The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 41, no. 4 : 523-528.
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