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Jean Struven Harris (April 27, 1923 – December 23, 2012) was the headmistress of The Madeira School for girls in McLean, Virginia, who made national news in the early 1980s when she was tried and convicted of the murder of her ex-lover, Herman Tarnower, a well-known cardiologist and author of the best-selling book The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet.
Gwen Lara was killed together with her husband Joe, her son-in-law Brandon Hannah, and two other couples from the Remnant Fellowship Church when the Laras' 1982 Cessna Citation 501 private jet crashed into Percy Priest Lake near Smyrna, Tennessee, shortly after takeoff on May 29, 2021.
Mariticide – the act of killing one's husband (Latin: maritus "husband"). Matricide – the act of killing one's mother (Latin: mater "mother"). Neonaticide – the act of killing an infant within the first twenty-four hours or month (varies by individual and jurisdiction) of its life. Nepoticide – the act of killing one's nephew. Parricide ...
In May 2000, Kristine Fitzhugh was murdered by her husband, Kenneth Fitzhugh. In March 2016, 63-year-old Wong Chik Yeok was slashed to death by her 68-year-old husband Kong Peng Yee, who was suffering from a brief psychotic delusion at the time he killed his wife. Kong was jailed for two years in 2017, although the sentence was raised to six ...
From 1996 to 2006, Megan Huntsman, an American woman, murdered six of her newborn children shortly after giving birth to them in Utah. [1] [2] [3]The serial infanticide was discovered in April 2014 when Huntsman's ex-husband Darren West began cleaning out the garage of the Pleasant Grove house he once shared with her. [4]
Although the practice is abusive, mothers claim there is no other way to secure a good future for their children. [16] [17] A similar practice is referred to in a folktale entitled "The Tortoise with a Pretty Daughter", collected in Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria (1910). The folklorist who wrote down the story explained the treatment of the ...
Two parents allegedly tried to choke their 17-year-old daughter outside her high school in an attempted “honor killing” for refusing an arranged marriage with an older man, according to police.
Marianne Bachmeier (3 June 1950 – 17 September 1996) was a West German vigilante.She shot and killed Klaus Grabowski, a man on trial for the rape and murder of her daughter Anna (14 November 1972 – 5 May 1980), in an act of vigilantism in the District Court of Lübeck in 1981, when she was 31.