It’s been more than twenty years, but I suspect most of us remember the case of the “Texas-Cheerleader-Murdering-Mom.” Wanda Webb Holloway of Channelview, Texas wanted her daughter Shanna, 13 at the time, to be picked for the high school cheerleading squad. Her rival for this honor was a girl named Amber Heath.

Wanda Webb Holloway was the organist at the local Baptist church. She was a respected member of the community. However, that did not keep her from going to extreme measures to try to get her daughter on the cheerleading squad by eliminating her chief opponent. The first year, Ms. Holloway tried to have Amber disqualified from the competition on a technicality. The second year, she showed up at school and handed out promotional pencils and rulers imprinted “Shanna Harper cheerleader…