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It’s the ultimate “How could she?” play in the Western canon, a mother driven to the horrendous act of filicide as spiteful revenge on a blithely unfaithful husband.

Podcasters, reporters and TV producers rushed to South Carolina to tell a Shakespearean story of filicide, anchored by a main character whose button-down shirts seem to cover a terrifying moral void.

Crimes of the Future Rated R for filicide, surgeries and power-drill violence.

While the motivations behind filicide are complex, Ms. Reece believes it most likely involves a desire for spousal revenge.

There is jealousy, passion and brutal filicide, all followed by eternal haunting.