I would appreciate it if anyone would be able to give me some advice. My husband, Chris and I need some suggestions on how to protect his parents from his brother and "new" wife.

Here is a little background information about my brother-in-law and his wife:
His name is Darren; he is 31 years old and is on his third marriage. He has 6 kids with 4 different women. Her name is Angela and she is 27 years old. This is her first marriage and has three kids by two different men. (I suspect both of them to be psychopaths).

Darren has all the classic signs of a psychopath, as does she. I believe that she is more aggressive though. My husband’s older brother,sister and I used to be afraid of her doing something to his parents in the middle of the night or something, because she can fly off the handle just for looking at her wrong. (Only to people that know her real well). The reason we were worried about his parents, was while Darren was living with them for six months, and she was living with hers (even though they were married),some nights she would stay the night and if she got mad, maybe she would try to kill them in the middle of the night or something.

I’ve always notice that there was a real problem with Darren since the beginning of my relationship with Chris. (Chris and I have been married for 11 years now and together for 12). Darren is a year older than I, but definitely doesn’t act it. He was married to his second wife for almost 11 years, but was unfaithful to her (she knew this). The final months of their marriage he was stepping out on her with the woman he is now married to. Darren got a divorce to his second wife and a week later was married to Angela. (They were engaged a month before the divorce was final). I have so many different tangents I could go off on that would paint a better picture, but I need to keep this as short as possible and later I may tell more stories.

Things with his parents got much worse after he married her. Before it was bad, like Darren and his second wife would leave their babies with the parents for days, when they would say it was only going to be for a couple of hours. Now, the current wife and he don’t even ask to leave the babies, they just dump them off. They have had the babies now for a month. The babies are 5 months old and are twin girls. I am very glad that the babies are not with her, (she would beat on her stomach while she was pregnant, and she actually said that she was going to kill them) When questioned by the police about saying that she was going to kill them, she told them that it was Darren that said he wanted to kill them. When the police ask her four year old daughter, she told them it was her mommy and that mommy was going to kill herself too. I could go into another story about all of this as well too, but won’t at this moment. I think that the babies would be safe with anyone other than those two. Even if it means that they would be put in foster care. But his parents don’t want that. So that is why they feel obligated that they look after them. Plus they are afraid that he may try to kill himself again.

Last year, on Father’s Day, there was incident where Darren and Angela got into it and the police were called. She had torn up their new van; hit her stomach, and other stuff. She told them that he was hitting her. When they questioned Darren about the allegations, they told him that they could see that these were self inflicted wounds. She was sent to the emergency room and he was not allowed to go along. He went back to his parent’s house to tell them about what had happened. We were all there, Chris, me, his mom and dad, and their older brother. Well he decided to leave not too long after that and he then called Chris’ cell phone and hung up. Then he called his sister and told her that he had taken some pills, but wouldn’t tell her what kind or where he was. Finally they hung up (he called a few other people as well, like his boss, his second ex-wife, and a friend) and the sister called Chris and told him what was going on. Chris and the older brother got in the car and started to look for him. They finally found him in a parking lot and he had taken a bottle of Tylenol. They took Darren to the emergency room. (Most of us know that this is very harmful to your liver). He had to be in ICU for a couple days. Needless to say, Darren told his mom that it was her fault, and they are afraid of going against him now.

They pay some bills for him, they buy Angela’s daughter pull-ups, and they bring food over to her parent’s house. There is just so much more!! It’s just a big ole mess. I want very desperately to help them. I am at a loss.