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Parricide is the deliberate killing of one's own father and mother, spouse (husband or wife), children, and/or close relatives. However, the term is sometimes used more generally to refer to the intentional killing of a near relative. [ 1 ]
Parricide or parenticide – the killing of one's mother, father, or other close relative. Patricide – the act of killing of one's father. (Latin: pater "father"). Senicide – the killing of one's elderly family members. (Latin: senex "old man"). Siblicide – the killing of an infant individual by their close relatives (full or half siblings).
Tyler had participated in drug use, sales, and purchases and had been criminally detained for arson, vandalism, thefts, aggravated battery, and then murder (there was also a $15,000 civil suit pending after Tyler had hit and injured a child while driving his father's car in June 2010). Prior to the parricides, he had been enrolled in an ...
Cloud (1971), 42–66, suggests that Pompey's law on parricide, the Lex Pompeia de Parricidiis (Dig. 48.9.1), probably of 55 or 52 BC defined parricide in terms of the murder of parents or close relatives, assimilated it with other forms of homicide, and suspended the sack and replaced it with the interdictio; [16] but see Bauman's cautions ...
Walter Triplett Jr. is a former bouncer convicted of killing Michael Corrado during a bar fight in 2009. He grew up in Cleveland with his twin sister, Waltonya Triplett, and their two older siblings.
A list of people who committed parricide (murder of both parents). Pages in category "Parricides" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.
In 2006, the Porco case was the subject of an hourlong episode of CBS's 48 Hours. [27] In 2013, Lifetime aired a movie entitled Romeo Killer: The Chris Porco Story; [28] Porco sued in an attempt to block the release of the movie. [29] The seventh season, third episode (#07.03) of CSI: NY, "Damned If You Do", is loosely based on the case. The ...
In cases when the victim is a family member, the murder evolves from the perpetrators' perception that the victim has brought shame or dishonor upon the entire family, which could lead to social ostracization, by violating the moral norms of a community.