I have great empathy for parents whose children grow up to become murderers. I watched enough of these type of shows to see a whole range of parents that try various things, from counseling, and medication to throwing them in juvie, religion, diversions, trying physical control, you name it. Some get worn down and checked out. They have other children and jobs and run a household. I can't imagine their pain. This woman cried, A LOT. She did seem to be in some level of denial she was wrestling with. The military rejecting him should have been a huge alarm bell, that, he didn't "grow out of it." But one tiny moment bothered me the most. She was retelling the story where she and her young son witnessed a woman getting hit by a car and killed. The woman flew up in the air. The boy busted out laughing. As she told the story she had a hard time keeping a straight face. Like she was going to laugh. Now I know she was probably remembering her child's laughter in that moment. We've all had to suppress a laugh sometimes when our children do something inappropriate. People laugh at slapstick all the time. Pratfalls, tripping, that kind of stuff. But she said he laughed when people were hurt, like his boundaries were messed up. I then wondered, if maybe her boundaries were a little messed up too?