Re: OT: Prosecutors: McCarron Obsessed With Cure-- antidepressants again

[Guest guest]

I didn't realize that McCarron's listing is in SSRIstories.com under

crimes related to antidepressants:

http://www.ssristories.com/show.php?item=1076

It's also listed at http://www.ssri-uksupport.com under the same

heading, not far from the listing for Yates (who had just

changed dose of Effexor and Remeron at time of killings).

The listserves in which people knew McCarron report that she was seen

as having helped many people and as a wonderful person but that

she " changed " . One poster reported that she went from seeming

perfectly stable to crying all the time and mentioned

antidepressants.

The recent articles are cagey about her use of meds. Friends and

family believed there was a link to the meds and her behavior. It's

documented that many people are at the highest risk for drug-induced

psychosis in the weeks and months following withdrawal from certain

drugs.

>

> Prosecutors: McCarron Obsessed With Cure For Daughter's Autism

>

> By Associated Press http://tinyurl.com/38t9vj

>

> Pekin -- A former pathologist accused of suffocating her

> 3-year-old autistic daughter with a garbage bag alternated between

> being obsessed with finding a cure for the little girl and wanting

to

> put her up for adoption, the woman's weeping husband testified

Monday.

> " All ever thought about was finding a cure for the

> autism, " McCarron said during the opening day of

McCarron's

> murder trial at Tazewell County Circuit Court in Pekin, just

southwest

> of Peoria.

> When he arrived home after McCarron died, McCarron

> said he found his wife locked in a bathroom, the Pekin Daily Times

and

> the (Peoria) Journal Star reported. After kicking the door open he

> found McCarron on the floor with cuts to her wrists and

Tylenol

> pills on the counter.

> McCarron said " I hurt " before she handed over her

> engagement ring, McCarron told the jury of eight men and four

women.

> McCarron, 39, of Morton, has pleaded not guilty by

reason

> of insanity to two counts of first-degree murder, a count of

> obstructing justice and one count of concealment of a homicidal

death

> in the May 13, 2006, death of her daughter .

> McCarron, who has been free on bond since 2006, has been found

> mentally fit to stand trial. But a medical expert hired by her

> attorneys said McCarron was insane at the time of the killing.

> McCarron's mental fitness will loom large the trial, defense

> attorney Marc Wolfe said during his opening statement Monday.

> " She is a woman who has dealt with life stresses. What we have

> to ultimately remember is what happened on May 13 and what her state

> of mind was on that day, not what her state of mind was three weeks

> before or after the crime, " Wolfe said.

> The videotaped confession McCarron made to police is also

> inconsistent with physical evidence, Wolfe said.

> But McCarron told Morton police detectives she " just

> wanted autism out of my life " and was obsessed with the condition,

> Tazewell County Assistant State's Attorney Kirk Schoenbein said in

his

> opening statement.

> McCarron allegedly killed her daughter after she tried to find

> multiple schools and treatments for the child, Schoenbein said.

> " But the treatment was not going to make the autism go away.

So

> she found another way, " he said.

> McCarron placed the trash bag used to suffocate the girl in a

> trash can at her mother's house, but later moved it to a gas station

> restroom after thinking police might find it in its original

location,

> Schoenbein said.

> McCarron, a Caterpillar Inc. engineer who filed for

divorce

> after his daughter's death, also testified Monday that

McCarron

> began seeing a psychologist for stress while training as a resident

in

> Cleveland.

> He said she told him she'd had suicidal thoughts after being

> prescribed an antidepressant. She stopped taking the medication in

the

> months before 's death, he said.

> McCarron often mentioned giving up for adoption,

but

> McCarron said his answer was always the same.

> " No way in hell, " he said. " She's my daughter. "

>

[Guest guest]

Keri,

This is interesting also.

Janet

On 1/9/08 8:19 AM, " anacat_11 " <anacat_11@...> wrote:

I didn't realize that McCarron's listing is in SSRIstories.com under

crimes related to antidepressants:

http://www.ssristories.com/show.php?item=1076

It's also listed at http://www.ssri-uksupport.com under the same

heading, not far from the listing for Yates (who had just

changed dose of Effexor and Remeron at time of killings).

The listserves in which people knew McCarron report that she was seen

as having helped many people and as a wonderful person but that

she " changed " . One poster reported that she went from seeming

perfectly stable to crying all the time and mentioned

antidepressants.

The recent articles are cagey about her use of meds. Friends and

family believed there was a link to the meds and her behavior. It's

documented that many people are at the highest risk for drug-induced

psychosis in the weeks and months following withdrawal from certain

drugs.

>

> Prosecutors: McCarron Obsessed With Cure For Daughter's Autism

>

> By Associated Press http://tinyurl.com/38t9vj

>

> Pekin -- A former pathologist accused of suffocating her

> 3-year-old autistic daughter with a garbage bag alternated between

> being obsessed with finding a cure for the little girl and wanting

to

> put her up for adoption, the woman's weeping husband testified

Monday.

> " All ever thought about was finding a cure for the

> autism, " McCarron said during the opening day of

McCarron's

> murder trial at Tazewell County Circuit Court in Pekin, just

southwest

> of Peoria.

> When he arrived home after McCarron died, McCarron

> said he found his wife locked in a bathroom, the Pekin Daily Times

and

> the (Peoria) Journal Star reported. After kicking the door open he

> found McCarron on the floor with cuts to her wrists and

Tylenol

> pills on the counter.

> McCarron said " I hurt " before she handed over her

> engagement ring, McCarron told the jury of eight men and four

women.

> McCarron, 39, of Morton, has pleaded not guilty by

reason

> of insanity to two counts of first-degree murder, a count of

> obstructing justice and one count of concealment of a homicidal

death

> in the May 13, 2006, death of her daughter .

> McCarron, who has been free on bond since 2006, has been found

> mentally fit to stand trial. But a medical expert hired by her

> attorneys said McCarron was insane at the time of the killing.

> McCarron's mental fitness will loom large the trial, defense

> attorney Marc Wolfe said during his opening statement Monday.

> " She is a woman who has dealt with life stresses. What we have

> to ultimately remember is what happened on May 13 and what her state

> of mind was on that day, not what her state of mind was three weeks

> before or after the crime, " Wolfe said.

> The videotaped confession McCarron made to police is also

> inconsistent with physical evidence, Wolfe said.

> But McCarron told Morton police detectives she " just

> wanted autism out of my life " and was obsessed with the condition,

> Tazewell County Assistant State's Attorney Kirk Schoenbein said in

his

> opening statement.

> McCarron allegedly killed her daughter after she tried to find

> multiple schools and treatments for the child, Schoenbein said.

> " But the treatment was not going to make the autism go away.

So

> she found another way, " he said.

> McCarron placed the trash bag used to suffocate the girl in a

> trash can at her mother's house, but later moved it to a gas station

> restroom after thinking police might find it in its original

location,

> Schoenbein said.

> McCarron, a Caterpillar Inc. engineer who filed for

divorce

> after his daughter's death, also testified Monday that

McCarron

> began seeing a psychologist for stress while training as a resident

in

> Cleveland.

> He said she told him she'd had suicidal thoughts after being

> prescribed an antidepressant. She stopped taking the medication in

the

> months before 's death, he said.

> McCarron often mentioned giving up for adoption,

but

> McCarron said his answer was always the same.

> " No way in hell, " he said. " She's my daughter. "

>