For at least a month, police say, Nicole Lester had been searching on her cellphone for ways to kill someone.
“How do you break a neck?” she typed into Google. And, she later asked: “Where is the best place to hit a person with an ax?”
Officers allege that they found the questions when reviewing Lester’s browser history. Toward the end of the list, they report, the searches started to be specifically about children. Looking up a medical diagram of a child’s chest and ribs. Studying cases in other states where kids were murdered. Asking if it was easier to kill a toddler than an adult.