Haven't read the book, just watched eps 6 and 7 and read through this whole thread and episode 7's thread. I apologize if this has been discussed elsewhere, but I wanted my theory confirmed and figured the book thread would do that.
I was sure that Amma was Camille's daughter, a product of that day in the woods with the football players. I figured Camille left Amma with Adora because she (Camille) felt guilty for killing Marion. Based on the scene where she gave Marian some drug and then Marian didn't wake up the next morning, I guessed that Camille assumed it was that that killed her. Plus seeing her roommate kill herself, not to mention her age, it made sense that she wouldn't feel responsible enough to raise Amma. The scene where Adora was holding the baby--I assumed it was baby Amma with a distraught Camille looking down at her mother and daughter and knowing she was going to leave. OH. And that with Camille's horrible high school friends talking about how only motherhood can provide true empathy, and even a throwaway question in an earlier episode where Camille is asked if she has any kids and Camille doesn't say yes or no, just changes the subject.
SO many hints, and it turns out that's not the case? At least in the book? That's more shocking to me than the dollhouse thing, honestly.
I'm glad Adora didn't murder the two girls (in the book at least), since that seemed too weird. (And too much grimy, hard labor effort for Adora to do on her own.) I thought the mention of the painted nails was a call back to Marian having lipstick on during the wake, and even thought that maybe that's what Jackie was trying to get Camille to remember. Also finding out that Adora was keeping fresh roses at the site where the second girl was found seemed to play into the Munchhausen's by Proxy thing, though in a way that was a little off. I figured Amma was the killer, but I guessed it was because Adora was spending time "mothering" the other two girls and Amma wanted to be sick and taken care of as much as Adora wanted to do it. I also assumed Adora knew or at least suspected, which is why she did the bike thing.
And while I'm here, who was Camille's father? I remember it was mentioned briefly on the show, but don't remember.
Thanks for reading the brain dump; the last two episodes were intense. I hope the show someone acknowledges that it's been strongly hinting that Amma is Camille's daughter (maybe Amma always wondered it?), if it doesn't diverge from the book and end up going that way.
