User blog comment:UnderAPineapple/Hurricane Pineapple 7: Frances Newton/@comment-26485526-20171104213028

I think that Frances was guilty because she took out the life insurance policies, the gun that killed her family was in her possession, and she was cheating on her husband. Furthermore, Frances herself apparently admits that she was cheating on Adrian in order to get a sense of vengeance, so she clearly had a lot of resentment towards him as it was in addition to being in desperate need of money.

I feel like the 2nd gun is probably being blown out of proportion as that gun could easily have belonged to the Newton family as well. Furthermore, if this guy in prison was supposedly "boasting" about killing the Newtons, why wasn't their name ever brought forward?

Also, if the Newtons were killed as a result of a home invasion... where was Frances? I don't see any evidence of an alibi on her part based on what I'm being shown and if the whole reason for the kids being killed was to "eliminate witnesses," you'd think that the target's wife ​would be more of a threat than the 7-year-old, and certainly more of a threat than the 1-year-old!

I mean, the other possibility that I could see is that Frances' lover could have been the home invader that killed the husband and children, which could explain why Frances was spared. However, in that case, that would make Frances guilty of premeditated murder as well in all likelihood as they easily could have planned the murder together, with Frances collecting the life insurance money. Even if this last theory is in fact true, by law, Frances would still be convicted of Capital Murder and executed, much like Maralyn Plantz was in Oklahoma after her husband was killed in a similar scenario (although Plantz didn't have her children killed).