Aug 14, 2013 · Researchers in the UK have identified four primary types of people (usually fathers or mothers) who kill their entire families — self-righteous, disappointed, anomic, and paranoid. …

Aug 16, 2013 · Of the 71 family "annihilators" identified for the study, 59 of them were male and 55 percent of them were in their thirties when they committed the crime. The frequency with …

Male family annihilators are typically driven by loss of control, including financial crises, separation or divorce, and may demonstrate evidence for domestic violence, while for women …

Aug 14, 2013 · Men who kill their families can be separated into four distinct types. British criminologists have made the assessment after studying newspaper records of "family …

May 13, 2019 · Familicide, the family annihilator, murder-suicides, and family murders are all terms that have been used to describe cases where a family member has killed other family …

Aug 15, 2013 · Of all the dark forms that murder can take, the slaying of a family by the father is one of the most tragic and the least understood. This first ever study of British ‘family …

Oct 12, 2024 · The Four Types of Family Annihilators. David Wilson, a criminologist, classified family annihilators into four distinct categories based on their motivations: The Self-Righteous …

Jan 1, 2009 · Yardley, Wilson, and Lynes (2014), in their study of British family annihilators between 1980 and 2012, established four profiles of familicide offenders: self-righteous, …

Aug 15, 2013 · The newspaper accounts of 59 cases contained enough information for the researchers to classify family annihilators into four types of men: what they called self …

May 8, 2020 · Understanding each profile and the associated features of familicide can help protect at-risk families by identifying the warning signs and intervening before the crime takes …