“It became a habit, and she’s always said she treated the diaries like friends.
“I see her journals as the way they were always meant to be used: as a way to help her mental health. They have nothing bad about them.”
Breakthrough in science
In 2018, a group of scientists found that Sarah and Laura Folbigg had a “G114R” variant in the CALM2 gene, which is important for the rhythm of the heart.
After the mutation was found, experts from all over the world got together to show that it caused arrhythmias and could kill.
The results were out of this world.
“Given the biophysical and functional effects of the CALM2 G114R variant, we think the variant probably caused the natural deaths of the two female children,” the researchers wrote in a study published in the medical journal EP Europace in 2020.
Scientists also found differences in Caleb and Patrick’s BSN gene, which, when deleted, has been shown to “cause early-onset lethal epilepsy in mice.”
Patrick had seizures and was told he had epilepsy before he passed away.
Scientists are still trying to figure out if this variant could have been what killed the two boys.
Carola Vinuesa, an immunology professor at the Australian National University who has been fighting for Folbigg, said that the scientific evidence proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Folbigg was innocent and that her children died of natural causes.
