Murder Suicide

Police: 5 Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide

AP | JONATHAN J. COOPER | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Salem Oregon, Crime, Dan Grove, Clara King, Magdiel Perez, Jose Quiroz, Murder-Suicide, Dave Okada, Murder-Suicide Oregon, Domestic Violence, Crime News

SALEM, Ore. — A mother and her three children were found dead in a burned house Tuesday in northwest Oregon, and the children's father was found...

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Murder-Suicide Being Investigated At Nursing Home

Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Video, Assisted Suicide, Wheat Ridge Manor Nursing Home, Murder-Suicide, Wheat Ridge Murder-Suicide, Nursing Home Murder-Suicide, Nursing Home, Wheat Ridge Colorado, Denver News

Wheat Ridge Police are investigating a possible murder-suicide at a nursing home on Sunday. Police say that around 4 p.m. Donald Schaffer, 67, wen...

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Mother Shot Children 18 Times, Examiner Says

Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Brevard County Sheriff's Office, Mom Shot Kids, Murder Suicide, Video, Port St. John, Crime News, Florida Crime, Port St. John Shooting, Tonya Thomas Shooting, Tanya Thomas, Tonya Thomas, Mom Shot Four Kids, Crime News

A Florida mother shot her four children 18 times before taking her own life, according to the Brevard County medical examiner's findings. In the ea...

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Police: Mother Kills Four Kids, Then Herself

AP | KYLE HIGHTOWER | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Brevard County Sheriff's Office, Murder Suicide, Video, Port St. John, Port St. John Shooting, Florida Crime, Tonya Thomas Shooting, Tanya Thomas, Tonya Thomas, Crime News

PORT ST. JOHN, Fla. — A Florida mother who fatally shot her four children before killing herself Tuesday called three of the kids who had sought...

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Family Disagrees With Murder-Suicide Explanation

Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Thornton Police Department, Murder Suicide, Thornton Shooting, Video, Carmen Bristol, Kevin Bristol, Michael-Bristol, Thornton Colorado, Thornton Murder Suicide, Thornton Police, Denver News

Police are now saying that it's likely Thornton resident Kevin Bristol shot himself after killing his 4-year-old son early Tuesday morning, but the fa...

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Two Dead In Apparent Murder Suicide Near JFK

AP | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Murder Suicide, Shooting JFK, NY Crime, New York News

NEW YORK -- Police say an argument between two Florida men in a New York City hotel turned fatal when one pulled out a gun and shot the other, then ap...

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Desperate Murder-Suicide Prompts Soul-Searching

Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Murder-Suicide, Murder Suicide in Oregon, Video, Oregon Murder Suicide, Terry Daniel, Lisa Haynes, Religion News

By Rick Bella Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. (RNS) For the past few years, Terry Daniel Sr. and Lisa Haynes used good cheer to camouflage th...

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Details Unfold On Shocking Murder-Suicide

AP | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Murder-Suicide, San Jose Shooting, San Jose Shopping Center Murder-Suicide, San Jose Shopping Center Shooting, San Jose Murder-Suicide, San Francisco News

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Police say two people found dead in an apparent murder-suicide at a Northern California strip mall parking lot were once a couple ...

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Murder-Suicide At Local Shopping Center

Robin Wilkey | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: San Jose Shooting, San Jose Shopping Center Murder-Suicide, San Jose Murder-Suicide, Murder-Suicide, San Jose Shopping Center Shooting, San Francisco News

On Saturday, police responded to what appeared to be a murder-suicide at a San Jose shopping center. San Jose Police Officer Jose Garcia told The ...

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Elderly Murder-Suicide: Should We Praise Old Men Who Kill Their Wives and Themselves?

Elizabeth Marquardt | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Adrienne Snelling, Marriage, Depression, Dementia, Palliative Care, Murder-Suicide, Donna Cohen, Alzheimer's, Long-Term Care, Not Dead Yet, Charles Snelling, Domestic Violence, Crime News

A bizarre aspect of murder-suicide episodes is that reporters, commentators or the killers themselves speak of them as "loving" acts. When a husband kills his sick wife and then himself, he is said to act out of compassion or understandable desperation.

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Teen Murders Ex's New Boyfriend With Axe, Kills Mom, Self: Police

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Brian White Murder Suicide, Murder, Detroit Crime, Murder Suicide, Video, Lavonia, Jacob Burns, Brian White, Detroit, Man Kills Ex Girlfriends Boyfriend, Angela Staperfene, Crime News

A 19-year-old whose girlfriend broke up with him snapped on Wednesday and went on a bloody rampage, killing his ex's new boyfriend, her mom, and then ...

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John Shick, Alleged Pittsburgh Psychiatric Shooter, Murdered Woman's Only Son

AP | By JOE MANDAK | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: John Shick, Murder Suicide, Video, Mary Schaab, John Shick Identified in Shooting, Woman Loses Second Child, Pennsylvania Crime, Michael Schaab, Pittsburgh Psychiatric Shooting, Pittsburgh Shooting, Crime News

PITTSBURGH -- Mary Schaab's only daughter was fatally shot 17 months ago, so she understood the horror and pain of losing a child, even before a Penns...

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Possible Murder-Suicide Linked To Local Gun Range

Posted 02.12.2012

Read More: Arizona Shooting Range, Murder-Suicide, Broward Sheriff's Office, Gun Range Suicide, Crime, Miami News

A 52-year-old Tamarac man killed himself Saturday morning at a Broward shooting range, according to a Broward's Sheriff's Office release. When police ...

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Apparent Murder-Suicide Of Couple Who Lost Kids In Fatal Car Accident

Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Jorge Astacio, Shooting, Sonia Astacio, Fatal Car Accident, Murder-Suicide, Kendall, I-75, Domestic Abuse, Miami News

Late Sunday night, 69-year-old Jorge Astacio shot and killed his wife before turning the gun on himself, according to Miami-Dade police. The apparent ...

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NY Mom Sends Husband On Errand, Then Kills Family

AP | BEN DOBBIN | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Murder Suicide, Video, Penelope Luddy, New York Crime, Ny News, Suicide, New York News

PERINTON, N.Y. — A western New York woman sent her husband on an errand Wednesday, then used a shotgun to kill her father, her 10-year-old daugh...

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Holiday Tragedy: Father, Son Murder-Suicide

Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Murder Suicide, William Ahrold, Video, Denver News, Evidence Stolen in Father Son Murder Suicide, Jackson Ahrold, Denver Colorado, Grand County Colorado, Father Son Shot to Death in Van, Father Son Found Dead in Van, Colorado, Father Son Murder Suicide, Denver News

A missing 62-year-old Denver father and his 9-year-old son were found shot to death in a van parked near a stretch of the Colorado River in Grand Coun...

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Two Dead In Apparent Chelsea Murder-Suicide

Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: New York Crime, Chelsea New York, Ny News, Murder-Suicide, Brandon Romero, New York News, Fulton Houses, NY Crime, Kenneth Waldron, New York News

Two men are dead after an apparent murder-suicide in Chelsea Monday. The New York Post reports Brandon Romero, 20, accompanied his female cousin t...

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Father Kills Kids, Shoots Wife After Her Return From Battered Women's Shelter: Police

AP | By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI | Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: Killing, Murder, Texas, Bay City, Murder Suicide, Video, Texas Crime, Laura Gonzalez, Jose Avila, Domestic Violence, Bay City Crime, Crime News

BAY CITY, Texas -- Laura Gonzalez was happy to be back at work after three weeks away that included a stay at a battered women's shelter. She saw it a...

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Westchester Family Of Four Found Dead In Home

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Amy Friedlander, Sam Friedlander, Cross River New York, New York Crime, Westchester County, Ny News, Murder-Suicide, New York News, NY Crime, New York News

CROSS RIVER, N.Y. — A family of four was found dead in their sprawling home in an affluent New York City suburb after what appeared to be a murder-s...

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Husband, 78, Kills 21-Year-Old Wife, Then Himself: Police

Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Video, Geunther Floerchinger, Homicide, Port St. Lucie, Carhina Floerchinger, Florida Crime, Man Kills Wife, Murder-Suicide, Florida, Domestic Violence, Crime News

The brutal murder of young bride by her much older husband, who then killed himself, has sent shockwaves through Port St. Lucie, Fla. -- where many ne...

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4 Found Shot Dead In Maryland Home

AP | SARAH BRUMFIELD | Posted 10.07.2011

Read More: Anne Arundel County, Murder Suicide, Brooklyn Park Maryland, Maryland Shooting, Kelly Brian Thompson, Lt. J.D. Batten, Brooklyn Park, 4 Dead Maryland, Maryland, Crime, Crime News

BROOKLYN PARK, Md. — The mother of a man police say shot his wife, her twin teenage children and himself to death called police after receiving ...

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Slain Wife In Murder-Suicide Had Wanted A Divorce

Sherman Oaks, CA Patch | Doug Kriegel | Email the Author | 8:31am | Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: Murder Suicide, Vera Michaelson, Dr. Alexander Michaelson, Sherman Oaks Murder Suicide, Los Angeles News

Los Angeles police detectives have determined that a Sherman Oaks doctor who killed his wife and then turned the gun on himself was told by his wife t...

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Husband And Wife Found Dead In Sherman Oaks Driveway

Sherman Oaks, CA Patch | Doug Kriegel | Email the Author | 12:01am | Posted 08.16.2011

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Detectives believe that a husband and wife found shot to death in the driveway of their gated Sherman Oaks home died in an apparent murder-suicide Wed...

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Prosecutors: Woman Drugs Son, Slits Own Throat; Both Live

Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Botched Murder Suicide, Murder Suicide, Dupage County Crime, Depression, Crime, DuPage County, Cheryl Luchetta, Chicago News

A woman has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly drugging her 7-year-old son before slitting her own throat--only to wake up and find he...

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Five Dead, Including Two Young Children, In Possible Idaho Murder-Suicide‎

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 07.13.2011

Read More: Murder, Idaho Falls-Idaho, Video, Homicide, Jeff Edwards, Murder-Suicide, Idaho, Fire, Ammon, Home News

Four persons, including two small children, were found dead of gunshot wounds in a possible murder-suicide in eastern Idaho. A fifth victim, the alleg...

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