Madonna Wallen knows her daughter and friends dabbled in the occult, played with Tarot cards and weren't always in control.
But she doesn't see them "in their right mind" shooting a Tennessee family returning from a Jehovah's Witness conference, as they're accused of."They're not natural-born killers," she said. "Natasha was into the demon part of it, I guess. I feel like if they did do this, that I guess I feel like the demons took over."
Police said it was robbery and carjacking - not satanism - that motivated the killings.
Vidar Lillelid, 34, and his wife, Delphia, 28, were found dead in a ditch Sunday night along a gravel road three miles from a rest stop near Baileyton in eastern Tennessee.
Their daughter, Tabitha, 6, was found alive in her father's lap and died Monday at a hospital. Her brother, Peter, 3, was cradled in his mother's lap. He was in critical condition Tuesday.