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Familicide – is a multiple-victim homicide where a killer's spouse and children are slain (Latin: familia "family"). Filicide – the act of a parent killing their child (Latin: filius "son" and Latin: filia "daughter"). Fratricide – the act of killing a brother (Latin: frater "brother"); also, in military context, death by friendly fire.
An 1829 illustration of Irish serial killer William Burke murdering Margery Campbell. A serial killer (also called a serial murderer) is a person who murders three or more people, [1] with the killings taking place over a significant period of time in separate events.
How to distinguish a spree killer from a mass murderer, or a serial killer, is subject to considerable debate, and the terms are not consistently applied even within the academic literature. The United States Bureau of Justice Statistics has defined a spree killing as "killings at two or more locations with almost no time break between murders".
Ohio differentiates between "Aggravated Murder (First-Degree Murder)" and "Murder (Second-Degree Murder)." Aggravated Murder consists of purposely causing the death of another (or unlawful termination of a pregnancy) with prior calculation and design, or purposely causing the death of another under the age of 13, a law enforcement officer, or ...
The murder rate in the United Kingdom fell to 1 per 100,000 by the beginning of the 20th century and as low as 0.62 per 100,000 in 1960, and was at 1.28 per 100,000 as of 2009. The murder rate in France (excluding Corsica) bottomed out after World War II at less than 0.4 per 100,000, quadrupling to 1.6 per 100,000 since then. [115]
This research concludes that the majority of the serial killers lives within 10 kilometers from the crime locations. [2] Another study claims that the offenders often choose a place near to their accommodations as the crime sites (i.e., the median distance between the offender's home and the criminal spot is 3 kilometers).
In the United States, the law for murder varies by jurisdiction. In many US jurisdictions there is a hierarchy of acts, known collectively as homicide, of which first-degree murder and felony murder [1] are the most serious, followed by second-degree murder and, in a few states, third-degree murder, which in other states is divided into voluntary manslaughter, and involuntary manslaughter such ...
This article contains a list of contract killers, both living and deceased, sorted by the country in which they engaged in said crimes. The practice of contract killing involves a person (the contract killer) who is paid to kill one or more individuals. [1]