Woman tried to kill daughter because she had student loans that she needed to pay off

Is it ever that serious you ask? Well, it is very serious for a mother who  tried to kill her daughter to escape debt. According to ABC news, the mother tried to kill her daughter with an Anti Freeze. Read on.

A Missouri woman who nearly died after her mother poisoned her with anti-freeze said she suspected that her mother was planning to kill her after reading her journal.

"She had this journal that she wrote ... her thoughts. She wrote the deaths of Shaun, my brother, and me. And that's what worried me ... I was shocked," Sarah Staudte told ABC's "20/20" in an exclusive interview.

Sarah's father Mark Staudte, 61, and her older brother Shaun, 26, both died just five months apart the year before in 2012. Medical examiners ruled Mark's death was due to "natural causes" and Shaun's death was due to "prior medical issues." Both bodies were cremated.

Sarah, now 26, told "20/20" that when she confronted her mother Diane about the journal entry predicting her death, her mother told her she wasn't going to die and to not read her journal again.

Sarah said she kept what she read a secret.

In June 2013, Sarah was brought to the emergency room at Cox South Hospital in Springfield, Missouri, with flu-like symptoms, but doctors determined that her kidneys and brain were failing. After doing a number of tests, doctors initially could not figure what was wrong with her.

During Sarah's hospitalization, Springfield Police Det. Neal McAmis received an anonymous tip that Diane could be involved in Sarah's illness and could also be responsible for the deaths of her husband and son. Det. McAmis then went to the hospital where he said one of the doctors told him that Sarah was in both a mysterious and grave condition.

"[The doctor] said that he was suspicious that it was a possible poisoning case," Det. McAmis told 20/20. "At that point, I was told Sarah was pretty much given a zero percent chance of making it. It was not if Sarah is going to die, but when."

He also learned from a nurse that the mother Diane was behaving strangely, joking about her daughter's condition and talking about an upcoming vacation to Florida.

Det. McAmis called Diane into questioning where she eventually admitted on tape to poisoning Mark, Shaun and Sarah with anti-freeze.

Diane told the investigator that she wanted Sarah dead because her daughter had student loans that she needed to pay off and that she was having problems finding a job. Sarah, a French and History graduate of Missouri State University, wanted to pursue her dream of being a translator.

"I've been kind of putting pressure on [Sarah] to get out and get a job. Your college bills are coming due. I don't want to pay for them. After all, you get tired of doing everything for your kids and it's like you need to step up and do it," Diane said in her interrogation tape, obtained by "20/20."

Sarah's sister Rachel was also brought into questioning, where she eventually admitted to helping her mother kill her father and brother, as well as poisoning her older sister.

Miraculously Sarah survived the poisoning but suffered severe neurological damage. She had to relearn how to walk and talk, and continues to recover.