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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Benedetto Ceraulo, 63, who was convicted for killing the fashion icon, shot his 37-year-old son in the face and then turned the gun on himself, on Tuesday, according to reports.

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 ...

Those bleak statistics are echoed in FBI Uniform Crime Reports indicating the murder of sons and daughters accounted for 3.1 percent of the 90,869 homicides in the U.S. from 1995 through 2000.