Sandra and Beth decided they could no longer continuing living with an erratic mother who constantly chose alcohol over

With the concoction of drugs and alcohol in her system, and Linda’s history with alcohol dependence, investigators quickly categorized the death as an ‘accidental drowning’ and the case was closed.,Sandra and Beth spent the next year boasting of their mother’s murder at several parties. Sandra specifically became fond of alcohol and would drunkenly confess her crime to friends, strangers and anyone who would listen.,The girls then went to eat at a local diner where they celebrated killing their own mother. After dinner, the girls went home and cried hysterically to a 911 operator that their mother had drowned.,They would kill their mother and use the insurance money to take a European vacation with their friends. Of course, when the girls spoke of their hatred towards their mother and their subsequent plans to end her life, none of their friends took the threat seriously.,“She should absolutely deserve a second chance, as everyone does. While many people would go in a different direction and fall into a well of despair, she has finished law school. The murder is in her past and it remains in her past.”,Sandra went off to university where she received a $2,000 scholarship and became a scientist. Beth has proved to be quite successful as well, graduating from law school and becoming a lawyer, her mentor, a criminal lawyer of twenty years stated:,Sandra and Beth were arrested on January 21, 2004, a little over a year after they drowned their mother in the bathtub of their Mississauga family home. Both girls were charged with first-degree murder and were sentenced as young offenders in 2006.,Investigators provided the male with a vehicle which was covered with audio and video recording, and the girls, unbeknownst to them, provided detailed confessions of their specific roles in the murder.,The girls filled the bathtub and escorted their mother inside. They then put gloves on and began bathing their mother, before telling her to lie on her stomach, so they could scrub her back. When she did as told, the girls held Linda’s head down in the water for four minutes.,Building functioning smart speakers is hard, which means the devices are still largely the domain of big companies. That means smart speakers like the Nest Audio ($99.99) or Echo Dot ($49.99) are backed by the security and clout of big companies like Google and Amazon, which makes for better privacy and security. Mozilla reports that Google now automatically opts users out of human review of voice transcripts, which means there’s less risk of data leaks.,The girls repeatedly pleaded for help, even reporting the abuse to a priest, but nothing ever came of it. It was the feeling of helplessness and suffering which brought Sandra and Beth a feeling of rage that surmounted any feelings of love and compassion at that dreadful moment.,The move proved to be unwise when a male friend of Sandra and Beth’s reported to the authorities the sisters had confessed the crime to him at one of the aforementioned parties.,On January 18, 2003, Sandra and Beth plied their mother with alcohol — which with her addiction, was fairly easy. Afterwards, they had her swallow six Tylenol 3 tablets. The mixture of codeine and alcohol, a fatal concoction, would slow down her heartbeat and allow the girls to complete their horrid quest.,Justice Duncan, who was the presiding judge for the case stated, “They suffered a level of poverty that was not in keeping with their mom’s relatively good income. The home atmosphere was depressing and degrading” before sentencing both girls to ten years; six years in custody and four years under community supervision.,Many of the contestants on the Biggest Loser, a popular American reality show where obese or overweight contestants compete for a cash prize, gained back all, if not more, of their starting weight. Season 8 contestant Sean Algaier went from 444 pounds to 289 at the end of the show, yet today his weight is up to 450 pounds again.