Samantha Booth, a 35-year-old nanny in Michigan who had been babysitting for a family, went completely berserk while taking care of a child. Booth ended up killing the child’s 83-year-old grandfather, stabbing the baby’s uncle with a screwdriver, and physically harming the child — leaving everyone who thought they knew her utterly puzzled.
Psychotic breaks, especially those that are drug-related, tend to be among the most unpredictable experiences one can go through — they spare no one, not even Hollywood stars. On Oct. 24 in Royal Oak, Michigan, things started to turn dire when David Ong was asked to check on his granddaughter and her babysitter, Booth. Sometimes, a mother just has certain instincts.
