Good and evil side by side

This is a solid piece by Christie Blatchford -- she noticed a young family with a little boy in a video of Terri-Lynne McClintic at a Home Depot in Guelph, Ont., purchasing a claw hammer with an orange handle and garbage bags she used to murder Tori Stafford. Just the banality of evil is striking:

http://natpo.st/Aiespg

"But also captured on the parking lot video, though no one made mention of it because it has no relevance to the case, were a man and a boy by the entrance to the Home Depot; the boy held tight onto the man's hand.

And as Ms. McClintic — in the very white jacket that the next day made her notorious when Woodstock Police released video from near Tori's school showing her being led away by a woman wearing such a coat — strode to the Home Depot, she passed right by what appeared to be a van or station wagon of some sort.

There was a family there, a man and a woman and a boy.

The man had one of those big-wheeled wagon gizmos such stores have for customers, and he and the woman were unloading their purchases into the back of their vehicle.

Beside the front passenger door the boy was being a boy: He was jumping up and down, and then he was swinging a leg waaaay out into the air, again and again. Now up and down; now swing out swing in; now up and down.

Ms. McClintic, who had already abducted an eight-year-old child that day and was about to stand by as Mr. Rafferty allegedly sexually assaulted Tori and who then by her own admission would snap and bludgeon the little girl to death, came within a foot of the family at the van.

She could have reached out and touched any one of them. "