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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 .
Killing of self. Suicide, intentionally causing one's own death. Altruistic suicide, suicide for the benefit of others. Autocide, suicide by automobile collision. Medicide, a suicide accomplished with the aid of a physician. Murder-suicide, a suicide committed immediately after one or more murders. Self-immolation, suicide by fire, often as a ...
Barreda killed his wife, mother-in-law and two daughters. Jean-Claude Romand, January 9–10, 1993, Prévessin-Moëns, France. Romand killed his wife, two children, his parents and their dog, and attempted to kill his ex-mistress. Susan Smith, October 25, 1994, Union, South Carolina. Smith drowned her two sons in a lake and blamed it on an ...
The name Uma is used for Sati (Shiva's wife, who is the incarnation of Parvati) in earlier texts, [which?] but in the Ramayana, it is used as a synonym for Parvati. In the Harivamsa , Parvati is referred to as Aparna ('One who took no sustenance') and then addressed as Uma, who was dissuaded by her mother from severe austerity by saying u mā ...
David R. Ekers, 38, is still charged with three counts of second-degree intentional murder in connection with the attacks in July 2020 that killed his sister, 34-year-old Eleanor Ekers; his mother ...
Clytemnestra was the daughter of Tyndareus and Leda, the King and Queen of Sparta, making her a Spartan Princess. According to the myth, Zeus appeared to Leda in the form of a swan, seducing and impregnating her. Leda produced four offspring from two eggs: Castor and Clytemnestra from one egg, and Helen and Polydeuces (Pollux) from the other.
The $1.25m life insurance policy of Teena Kamal was altered just days before her husband killed her and their daughter in a murder-suicide in the family’s 21-room Massachusetts mansion.. Rakesh ...
Kenneth Brown (1837 – 1876), father of Edith Cowan (1861 – 1932; the first Australian woman to become a member of parliament) shot and killed his second wife, Mary (née Tindall). Brown was convicted of murder and hanged five months later. William Henry Bury (1859–1889) was executed in Dundee, Scotland, for the murder of his wife Ellen in ...