A team of doctors had examined the bodies and had concluded that none of the Riddles had been poisoned, stabbed, shot, strangles, suffocated, or (as far as they could tell) harmed at all.
Two months after Tami Lynne's death, Tinning allegedly confessed to New York State police that she'd smothered the baby with a pillow when she wouldn't stop crying.
She felt that she would stifle if she stayed in Atlanta another day, with her tired mind forcing itself round and round the deeply worn circle of futile thoughts about the mess she was in.