A Florida woman “experiencing the stress of family difficulties” and “medical ailments of her son” with Asperger’s syndrome decided the best thing to do would be carrying out a suicide pact with him and her husband, who tried telling police it was their “disabled son” who came up with the idea, according to cops. All three survived.
Barbara Bates, 59, allegedly admitted to detectives with the Lee County Sheriff’s Office that she planned “the homicide of her family over a period of months and actively sought to acquire a firearm without success,” according to a probable cause statement.
“Barbara obtained sleeping medication with the sole intent of distributing it to her family, and then utilized a bladed instrument to lacerate her husband’s and son’s throats with the intent of ending their life,” the statement says, noting how Bates claimed her husband, Neil Bates, 64, was in agreement that they needed to die, along with their adult son…