It’s an ancient crime, as old as “the dawn of mankind,” according to Psychiatry, an electronic monthly journal now known as Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience. And in America alone ...

Filicide, or the murder of one’s children, while an unthinkable crime by most people, is a crime seen globally, and within every social class. Stories of mothers and fathers who ...

That’s true whenever parents are alleged to have killed their children, which is why people know the names Susan Smith and Andrea Yates. In 2007, after the Yates case was reopened and she was found ...

TV9 spoke to a forensic psychiatrist about filicide—when a parent kills a child—after a Marion father not only admitted to killing his five-year-old son, but told police he had been thinking ...

Filicide is when a child is murdered by his or her parent/parents. This is not a new phenomenon. Daisy de Melker murdered her son in 1932. She was the second women in South Africa to be hanged.

Filicide is the subject of the three-episode, ... A show meant for true crime fans long before true crime was a legitimate genre, The First 48 offers 23 seasons of episodes, ...

A medical expert says the defense's claim that Lindsay Clancy may have suffered from postpartum psychosis during the alleged killings of her three children has significant bearing in the ...

How Do Filicide Offenders Differ From Other Murderers? Date: May 28, 2009 Source: BioMed Central Summary: People who commit filicide, the killing of their own child, are no more psychotically ...

I can’t leave you vulnerable or exposed,” Nelson said of altruistic filicide — which falls under the ... attack sat down for a jailhouse interview with True Crime Arizona correspondent ...

Parents killing their children is uncommon, but there are some risk factors around the crime such as mental illness, previous abuse and domestic violence. Understanding the triggers for filicide ...