Family Violence & Homicide
Exploring the dark world of family violence and familial homicide where family members turn on each other with deadly consequences. Take a look at the psychology behind true crime cases of familicide, family annihilators and parricide where entire families have been destroyed by one devastating act.
The role of first-love and powerful emotions in adolescent female parricide including the cases of Jasmine Richardson, Erin Caffey, Kim Edwards and Sarah Johnson.
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When multiple wives suddenly die in mysterious accidents it is often not until the second death occurs that police begin digging a bit deeper.
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While love can be a wonderful thing, it is a powerful emotion and one that can prove deadly. In October 2016, Stuart Gallear stabbed his wife...
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The judge in Casey Anthony's murder trial from 2011 suggests she killed her 2-year-old daughter Caylee by accident using chloroform trying to keep her quiet.
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On 20th June 2001 in Houston, Texas, Andrea Yates drowned her five children one after the other in the bathtub of her family home. Four sons,...
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Given Charles Lindbergh's stature as an international hero, investigators in 1932 didn't consider the unthinkable... that Lindbergh was a suspect in the death of his son.
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The Canadian case of Jennifer Pan in 2010 features some unique characteristics within the dark world of parricide; when a child kills their own parents.
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Neonaticide, the killing of a child within its first 24 hours of life, is widely believed a female-only crime and one a woman is judged very...
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Familicide is characterised by multiple victims of homicide within the same family and where the perpetrator is also a member of that family.
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Within siblicide, as with any homicide, there is always the question of motive. Why would anyone kill their own sibling?
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Parricide is a rare act of homicide however, it is an act which causes horror when the lives of parents are taken, often brutally, by their...
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Christmas is always a magical time of year, especially for a young couple expecting their first child. But on December 24th 2002, that magic was to...
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