Familicide (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A familicide is a type of murder or murder-suicide in which at least one spouse and one or more children are murdered by the other spouse. It may also refer to a crime in which a parent or parents or other relatives such as siblings and grandparents are killed. In some cases all of the family members are killed. More than 50% of the 909 cases of mass murder - defined as 4 victims within a 24-hour period - in the US from 1900 to 2000 occurred within an immediate family. Although the overall number of familicide cases is relatively rare, they are the most common form of mass killings...