This is the second time someone like this has broken loose in S.C. (recall Susan Smith, 1994?).
Anyway, I can easily imagine that the poor and ignorant can find themselves in desperate situations that they cannot get themselves out of, and they go crazy (assuming they already didn't have both paddles in the water).
If it's some kind of mental illness, I can at least understand it - although it has to be pretty severe before the person truly has no control over their actions in a case like this. But then it points to the fact that we need a whole lot better education about and treatment of mental illness in this country. It should be treated like any other condition. It isn't. That needs to change.
She'd had a fight with her mother earlier i think it might have been spite.
Big difference between that and an Andrea Yates.