Tanya Friedly Burned The House Down

[zenaleigh]

Warren, MI - Tanya Laura Friedly, 32, tried to kill herself and her two children on Tuesday. And if not for the quick action of Friedly’s 13-year-old son, she probably would have succeeded. After pulling her kids out of school Tuesday morning, Friedly made the kids hot chocolate laced with prescription drugs. She then left her son and ten-year-old daughter in the downstairs living room, went upstairs, and set the house on fire.

Tuesday morning was weird for Friedly’s two kids even before the fire. They left for school as usual, but their mother showed up by around 10:00 a.m. to pick them up, saying that both children had doctor’s appointments. But once they left school, Friedly said she just wanted to spend some time with the kids and took them home, where she made them hot chocolate and acted a little strangely, telling her son she was going to “go to Heaven”.

Friedly’s little girl drank her hot chocolate, but the young teenager didn’t finish his and put it down once his mother left the room. I don’t know if it tasted funny or if his hinky meter got tripped by his mom’s odd behavior, or if he just got lucky. But that move probably saved all their lives, as Tanya Friedly went upstairs and lit her bed on fire. Then she waited for the flames to engulf her home, her children, and herself.

Smoke rises upwards, usually, but once it fills a room it will travel down halls and stairways. Still, though, a fire started from above a person will kill them slower and more painfully than a fire started below them, because smoke inhalation hits from a fire set low. I don’t know if Tanya Friedly knew she was dooming her children to an intensely painful, slow death that way, but more likely she was just an inept arsonist.

Friedly’s son smelled smoke, and then saw it. He was pretty looped on the hot chocolate, but not too far gone to think. This kid got himself and his sister, who was quite lethargic but till conscious, out of the home. He then called 911 on his cell phone, and adult neighbors wouldn’t let the boy go back in to get his mother - instead, they went inside and got her out. She’d already decided not to die and had made her way to the first floor of the home.

All three Friedlys were taken to hospitals. Our young hero was evaluated and released, but his little sister was transferred to a Detroit hospital for further evaluation because she had ingested a pretty big dose of whatever it was in that hot chocolate and needed to be watched. I don’t have information on whether she’s out yet. The boy is now in the care of family members.

The motive seems to be that Friedly was depressed about losing her job and having financial problems. I can understand the desperation that can come in a financial crisis - but I cannot understand killing one’s children. If she felt the need to off herself, she could have done that without ever going up to the school for those kids. The selfishness of suicide is bad enough. To try to take her kids with her, and by fire… wow. I just don’t have the words for that level of wrong.

Tanya Laura Friedly was arrested on Tuesday night at a hospital, where she was kept briefly for observation. She has been charged with two counts of assault with intent to murder and one count of arson and is being held on a million dollars bond.

http://www.dreamindemon.com/2008/11/22/tan...down/#more-1478

[Azeuron]

wow i mean WTF she deserves to get whatever she gets in my opinion

[zenaleigh]

wow i mean WTF she deserves to get whatever she gets in my opinion

I agree, fine woman kill yourself, but don't take your kids down with you, very selfish

[jynxxxedangel]

I wonder if anyone thought to look about for the screws she's missing?

[Msterbeau]

I wonder if anyone thought to look about for the screws she's missing?

A fair number, I'd venture.

[Head Wreck]

by some skew reasoning its possible she didnt want the kids to have to deal with the aftermath of her suicide.

and people wonder why i have little confidence in people

[TitsMcGee]

I agree with Head Wreck, some people believe that taking the kids with them is better than leaving them behind to suffer without them. Suicide is a very selfish act, and I understand how a person can want to die, but I cannot see the justification of taking someone out with them.