On Mother’s Day weekend in 2003, in Tyler County, Texas, a mother of three small children called 911 to report that her sons had been attacked. The weapons used and the confession of the perpetrator would shock and horrify the residents of this tiny close-knit Christian town. Perhaps the only thing more terrifying than the murders themselves were the reasons behind them.
*NOTE: Technically, Deanna Laney lived in the town of New Chapel Hill, which is part of Tyler County. Since some sources conflicted with where she resided, I used Tyler since it is the greater metro area.
Research and University Course Resources:
ASU: The Courts, Gender and Crime, Procedural Criminal Law, Evidence of Criminal Law
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/tx-court-of-appeals/1245598.html
https://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/04/01/laney/
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.1089.8811&rep=rep1&type=pdf
https://www.kltv.com/story/18620253/deanna-laney-out-of-mental-institution/
https://ijahss.net/assets/files/1702519093.pdf
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2799356
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/009318531204000208
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5282617/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128092873000055
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165178110004725
https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2723&context=facpub
https://shareok.org/bitstream/handle/11244/324769/ShouseJL2013.pdf?sequence=1
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1041&context=urj
