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.
An Innocent Man [Part I]: The Trial of Dr Jeffrey MacDonald – A Critique of the Case
In the first of a 3-part series, Australian true crime writer Stephen Karadjis discusses the case of Green Beret Captain...
Love and Emotion in Female Adolescent Parricide
The role of first-love and powerful emotions in adolescent female parricide including the cases of Jasmine Richardson, Erin Caffey, Kim...
The Serial Widow: When Does A Tragic Accident Become A Murder?
When multiple wives suddenly die in mysterious accidents it is often not until the second death occurs that police begin...
A Crime of Passion or Pre-Meditated Murder?
While love can be a wonderful thing, it is a powerful emotion and one that can prove deadly. In October...
Casey Anthony May Have Murdered Her Child By Accident Using Chloroform
The judge in Casey Anthony's murder trial from 2011 suggests she killed her 2-year-old daughter Caylee by accident using chloroform...
A Tragedy Born From Postpartum Mental Illness: The Case of Andrea Yates
On 20th June 2001 in Houston, Texas, Andrea Yates drowned her five children one after the other in the bathtub...
Lindbergh Kidnapping: Did Charles Lindbergh Kill His Son?
Given Charles Lindbergh's stature as an international hero, investigators in 1932 didn't consider the unthinkable... that Lindbergh was a suspect...
Jennifer Pan: The Girl Next Door Who Arranged Her Parents Murder
The Canadian case of Jennifer Pan in 2010 features some unique characteristics within the dark world of parricide; when a...
The Moral Judgement On Woman Who Kill Their Babies
Neonaticide, the killing of a child within its first 24 hours of life, is widely believed a female-only crime and...
Familicide: Multiple Victim Homicides Within One Family
Familicide is characterised by multiple victims of homicide within the same family and where the perpetrator is also a member...
Siblicide in Humans: Homicidal Violence Between Siblings
Within siblicide, as with any homicide, there is always the question of motive. Why would anyone kill their own sibling?
The Psychology of Parricide: When Children Kill Their Own Parents
Parricide is a rare act of homicide however, it is an act which causes horror when the lives of parents...
