Men, Snapping

In early 2023, we had two such cases in one week. And almost two years later, men are still snapping at a rate we seemingly haven't encountered before.

Just this past week, we had two major examples of this.

First up, in Utah, Michael Haight (42) killed his wife, his mother-in-law, and his five kids. His wife had filed for divorce on December 21st, apparently, and he was served sometime around December 27th. Bunch of details here. Haight was an insurance agent with AllState in Cedar City — that’s the “largest” close city to Enoch, where they lived — but apparently he had quit his job in the past week, probably to prepare for this horror.

Here’s a few things to pull out from this case before we get to the bigger picture.

If you look at the wife’s Facebook, she changed her profile picture on June 1, 2022. That’s the sixth month of the year, right? So about five months before she filed. Here was the new profile pic:

It makes you wonder what happened in those five months to cause the divorce filing. Obviously the easy speculations are “found him with a man” or “was doing something bad with the kids,” but again, just speculation. It could have been eroding for years. I can’t imagine five kids is easy in this economy.

From The Daily Mail article on Haight that I linked above: