Tv Drama

[rogie]

Kids are found dead with oldest boy barely alive.....Turns out he had tried to kill them all after hearing his mother saying they would be better off dead....May have been a taggart.

[Canary42]

Don't know the TV version, but sounds like Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure"

[Peter Pedant]

dune becaue we were too menny

Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure - towards the end
if you can bear it
Sue-Edna or whatever her name is - who was pretty crazy to start with ( like all Hardy's heroines) goes crazier
Peggy Sue then

condemned as pornography when it came out 1892

and THAT was the one Leddy Carlisle sniffed
these are the lives we DON'T need to know about ....

[Buenchico]

If others have correctly identified the work, this might be the production:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066674/

[pauln90]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1769100/

Taggart episode Fallen Angels

[woofgang]

That's interesting because it was also a recent plot on an american police drama....Might have been Law and Order SVU