10 Ominous Details Surrounding Rachel Henry, The Mother Who Sang Nursery Rhymes As She Murdered Her Children

6 /10 Waking Nightmare

Pedro didn’t even notice at first. He was awake when his son was alive, then took a nap and saw all three of his children wrapped in blankets on the couch across the room.

He went over and inspected them to see blood and foam coming out of his daughter’s mouth. He called his aunt Pearl over immediately, and the police were summoned, but the kids were long gone.

5 /10 Isolation Incident

This all came after a series of complaints that Rachel gave to the other house members that she wasn’t allowed to do anything. She made complaints at a later date that she was being kept indoors and didn’t understand why.

At one point, she even claimed an amnesiac story – stating that she didn’t remember that whole day. That she wasn’t the one that killed them.

That it was her body, but she wasn’t piloting it at all—all part of the same thread of complaints from her earlier drug-induced delusions.

4 /10 Past Parenting

This wasn’t the first tragic turn of Rachel’s life that led to danger for her children. They were taken away before, likely tied to her drug-induced behavior.

Even Pedro admitted that he took drugs as well, but never to the point of taking another life.

Their bond through bad decisions led Rachel to grow paranoid delusions brought on by withdrawal symptoms, which in turn were because she couldn’t leave the house because she had to take care of the babies.

3 /10 Relative Concerns

Pedro was devastated. He thought it was an act against him. His children were his life, and they meant so much to everyone else. Rachel, when interviewed after her confession, seemed utterly numb to the ordeal.

She admitted guilt while continuing to feign a degree of innocence over her ability to exert self-control over the influence that overtook her mind.

2 /10 Avert Eyes

While serving time in holding before her trial, Pearl made a video call to try and get a reason, an honest answer from Rachel, why she would do something like that.

The early Covid lockdown restrictions meant that she couldn’t appear in person. Instead, she held up a photo of Rachel’s children, the last family photo when they were alive, and Rachel couldn’t even look at it for a while.

She contested her previous case, that she knew something was wrong with her, but blamed her family for not letting her get the help she needed.

1 /10 Hopeless Cause

Even at 22 years old, Rachel Henry serves as a warning case against the use of hard drugs.

It’s possible that, with a seven-month-old and two other children, she was feeling a postpartum depression that was made increasingly severe with symptoms of meth use or withdrawal.

She’s never been able to give a straight answer, even to why she did it but was able to describe precisely how with gruesome detail. She’s either a liar or too broken ever to be fixed. With prolonged use of meth involved, it’s usually both.