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Article: Why so many murder-suicides?(LAW & JUSTICE)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- March 1, 2007
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ANYONE WHO READS or watches the news is aware of the spate of murder-suicides taking place. We have seen school shootings, family killings, and adult partner murders--all ending in suicide or attempted suicide. Yet, most of these cases are not reported nationally, they are in headlines in the local paper. For example, in Iowa, a low crime rate state, 106 individuals killed a partner or spouse in a domestic situation over the last decade. The main factor appeared to be a pending breakup. Ninety-six of the killers were men, about half committed suicide shortly afterward.
According to the Violence Policy Center (VPC), at least 662 people died in murder-suicides in ...
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