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Parricide refers to the deliberate killing of one's own father and mother, spouse (husband or wife), children, and/or close relative. However, the term is sometimes used more generally to refer to the intentional killing of a near relative. [ 1] It is an umbrella term that can be used to refer to acts of matricide and patricide .
Geronticide – the abandonment of the elderly to die, die by suicide or be killed. Honour killing – the act of murdering a family member perceived to have brought disgrace to the family. Infanticide – the act of killing a child within the first year of their life. Mariticide – the act of killing one's husband (Latin: maritus "husband").
Nicholas killed his parents and his two younger brothers with a gun. Jessie Dotson, March 3, 2008, Binghampton, Memphis. Killed his brother, two of his nephews (also wounding two more nephews and his niece), their mother, and two others. [28] Steven Sueppel, March 23, 2008, Iowa City, Iowa. Sueppel killed his wife, their four children, and himself.
Detectives are searching for answers after a 13-year-old boy stabbed his mother to death in their Hialeah apartment in front of his 14-day-old sister on Thursday night, police say.
Julia Agrippina (6 November AD 15 – 23 March AD 59), also referred to as Agrippina the Younger, was Roman empress from AD 49 to 54, the fourth wife and niece of emperor Claudius, and the mother of Nero . Agrippina was one of the most prominent women in the Julio-Claudian dynasty. She was the great granddaughter of Augustus (the first Roman ...
Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty. Phil Donahue (left) and Marlo Thomas (right) Marlo Thomas is honoring her late husband Phil Donahue. In a lengthy Instagram post, the actress thanked her followers for ...
Charles Whitman killed his mother and wife before going on his killing spree at the University of Texas at Austin that killed 14 people and wounded 31 others, as part of a shooting rampage from the observation deck of the university's 32-story administrative building on August 1, 1966. He was eventually shot and killed by Austin police.
A small group of neighbors gathered at the beach in Alameda on Thursday evening to mourn the loss of nearly an entire family: Police say a husband killed his wife, 6-year-old son and mother-and ...