Waco, TX and Milwaukee, WI – This story is sad and messed up on a number of levels, and many of you know I don’t say that lightly. So hang on to your chairs and get some Kleenex, because this one’s just like that.

Last Friday, Alisa Lorraine Evans, 38, put her two-week old fraternal twins, Josiah and David Smith, into a bathtub in her mother’s Milwaukee home. Then she waited for the babies to stop struggling.

Evans’ mother, Joyce Smith, told police that she came home from errands on FridayFriday reviews and found the twin babies on a bathroom floor. Alisa Evans was sitting on the edge of the tub and just “raised her arms as if she was in distress”. The grandmother took the babies to the next room and called 911. Baby David was pronounced dead at a Milwaukee hospital on Friday. As of this writing, Josiah is still alive.

Alisa Evans told police that she’d been talking to herself most of Friday, trying to make the feelings in her head go away. She’d been depressed, she said. When police asked her why, she told them about her other son, Jonathon David Smith.

Jon “J.” Smith was shot in the head and killed on OctoberOctober reviews 31, 2007. A Waco High School basketball player, he’d been on a friend’s porch in Waco, Texas, where he lived with his stepfather. Jon and friends were hanging around, handing out HalloweenHalloween reviews candy, when Jon’s friend Demarcus Rashad Alexander, 17, started playing with a handgun he’d brought with him. Jon was shot accidentally and died shortly thereafter at Hillcrest Hospital in Waco. A memorial Myspace page was set up for “J.” by his friends.

That Myspace page is significant because the profile information in it asks for extra support for “Mrs. Lisa and Vince”. “Mrs. Lisa” appears to be Alisa Evans, J.’s mother. More than that, Alisa Evans may also have been a grandmother – Jon appears to have had a son. Evans did not react well at all to the loss of Jon. Already pregnant with fraternal twins, recently separated from her husband and living with her mother in Milwaukee, she sunk deeply into depression.

Evans’ mother told police that her daughter had “been talking about hurting herself for some time.” Why there was no help for Alisa Evans, I don’t know. Her depression only increased after the birth of her twin boys, one of whom she named “David” to honor Jon. Police say that Evans had been talking out loud on Friday with the hope “that by talking about it, things might get better”. Instead, things got worse. Evans said she had filled the tub with water but then drained it before filling it up again.

“Defendant did not want a temporary solution, she wanted something permanent. She wanted the children to go to HeavenHeaven reviews,” police said. Evans was in the Milwaukee County Jail Monday with bail set at $500,000 for one count of intentional homicide, and one count of attempted homicide.