 On February 28 , 2007 , Moqadem was expected to return from a trip to Morocco to visit his family . Lhermitte took her eldest daughter Yasmin to a dermatology appointment . After picking up the rest of her children from school and preparing lunch for them , Lhermitte heard a voice tell her , " the machine is running . " Lhermitte mailed two letters : a letter with jewelry for her sisters , and the other letter to her friend Valerie . In the letter to Valerie , she called Dr. Michel Scharr " a rotten bastard " who " stole " the intimacy between herself , her husband , and her children . She also accused her husband of being " deaf " and " blind " to her concerns regarding Dr. Scharr . After mailing the letters , she went to a grocery store and slipped two knives into her shopping bag . 
