The report I read stated Chris killed his wife and son over the weekend and himself on Monday. Unlike Scott Peterson or OJ Simpson and most recent Cutts who tried to hide there crimes and continue their lives, Chris' regret, remorse, guilt and grief over what he had done caused him to take his own life. This alone tells us that this act was not premeditated and was most likely spur of the moment in anger. How does someone kill their child? This situation again is different from the calculated killing to extinguish an unwanted pregnant wife. Often, a grief stricken remorseful parent who has killed their spouse in sudden rage, believes it is better for the child to die than live without their deceased parent or have to live with the stigma of a killer father. Particularly a father who is a celebrity. Of course this belief is crazy to a thinking person. However, a person who has just killed his wife in a rage is not thinking properly.
There are also instances when a parent kills a child in order to get back at or punish their spouse. They use the child as the last tool to control. To me this is just psychotic behavior from a insane psychopath. Since we do not have enough information to judge, or maybe we should not judge at all, we should just pray for those left behind who mourn their family members and friends. And we should pray from Chris. An astute student of the Bible knows that the word kill in "Thou shall not kill", was transliterated from a hebrew/aramaic word meaning to 'murder, or lay in wait' and also knows that in Deuteronomy we learn that those who kill must stand before the Lord and those they have killed to explain their actions. Neither you nor I will be there, so perhaps we should leave the judgment up to the Lord. As only he knows what is in the heart of a man.