Overview

• Deputies say a Aug. 23 golf cart crash into Atwood Lake was intentional, and the mother made statements about conversing with God.
• Investigators report the mother said she threw her son into the water to "give him to God."
• Divers recovered the 4-year-old that evening off a dock, and the father’s body was found the next day after he tried to reach a sandbar during a purported test of faith.
• Ruth R. Miller is undergoing psychiatric evaluation in a secure setting with arraignment arrangements delayed, and autopsies remain pending.
• Surviving teenage children are with relatives, and the family’s church attributes the events to mental illness rather than church teachings.