How a Florida teenage romance ended in a violent suicide pact

Brandon Goode and Alex Hollinghurst shared a hatred of their mothers – and have left their families in torment

Alex Hollinghurst

IT WAS 4am last Saturday when a Florida police officer, Robert German, radioed for back-up after noticing a suspicious car in a wealthy suburb of Windermere in Orlando.

On approaching the teenage couple in the car, Officer German was shot in the head. When the back-up arrived, they found him dead on the ground.

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is a Jungian analyst in private practice in London. She is former Chair of the British Psychoanalytic Council and a Training Analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology, of the British Association of Psychotherapists, and of the London Centre for Psychotherapy. She is co-editor with Barbara Wharton of Sabina Spielrein: Forgotten Pioneer of Psychoanalysis, published by Routledge in 2003 and co-editor with Paul Williams, Jean Arundale and Jean Knox of Terrorism and War: Unconscious Dynamics of Political Violence, published by Karnac in 2002.