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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 ...
v. t. e. A familicide is a type of murder or murder-suicide in which an individual kills multiple close family members in quick succession, most often children, spouses, siblings, or parents. [1] [2] In half the cases, the killer lastly kills themselves in a murder-suicide.
On February 4, 2007, Paris Lee Bennett, a 13-year-old American boy, murdered his 4-year-old sister, Ella Bennett, in Abilene, Texas.Paris stabbed Ella 17 times.. The motive for the murder was Paris's resentment towards his mother, Charity Bennett, as he believed the best way to emotionally damage her was to take away one of her children.
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 ...
Filicide is the deliberate act of a parent killing their own child. The word filicide is derived from the Latin words filius and filia ('son' and 'daughter') and the suffix -cide, from the word caedere meaning 'to kill'. The word can refer to both the crime and perpetrator of the crime.
A Kentucky woman police say killed her husband and sister before being shot and killed by her brother last week suffered with mental health problems, according to a court motion filed nearly 15 ...
e. Fratricide (from Latin fratricidium; from frater 'brother', and -cīdium 'killing' – the assimilated root of caedere 'to kill, cut down') is the act of killing one's own brother . It can either be done directly or via the use of either a hired or an indoctrinated intermediary (an assassin). The victim need not be the perpetrator's ...