The Staton Jones Report

As Spring comes to Texas, everyone looks forward to wildflowers, oppressive heat, and some crazy religious woman killing her children. But first, we have to sentence last year's Psycho Mom, Deanna Laney.

This morning, the Dallas Morning News released a transcript [free registration required], of Laney's December interview with a psychiatrist — and boy howdy it's a page-turner. Here, Laney waxes nostalgic about her inspiration from previous Texas Psycho Mom, Andrea Yates:

I remembered that Andrea Yates, that she had, because I had thought we were going to be witnesses together. And, uh, I thought, I thought she must going to be a witness, too, because she had to kill her boys. And I thought we were going to be witnesses together.

Yeah, well, instead of witnesses, you were "the accused." Tough break.

And I thought it was the Lord telling me that I was -- I thought it was -- I, I thought he was giving me time to really value the time that I was gonna, that I had left with them. ... And I thought because I had gotten this same feeling back four years ago at the Burger barn.

Someone get Mel Gibson on the phone!