murder-suicide
Noun
Meaning
murder-suicide (plural murder-suicides)
(criminology) A murder in which the killer subsequently commits suicide.
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Cassandra Desmond, who lost her mother, only brother and his entire family in the murder-suicide, has said she hopes the recommendations from the inquiry will help prevent similar deaths.
Bilborough's murder - which he failed to prevent - hits him so hard that he falls into a guilt-ridden depression, rapes Penhaligon, and ultimately commits murder-suicide.
Family killer Rowan Baxter uploaded a video to his Facebook page a year before he burned his entire family to death in a sick murder-suicide showing his middle daughter expressing her unconditional love for him.
A look at a couple of the victims of an apparent murder-suicide that happened Mon., July 30, 2018, in Queens, New York City.
Before Radnor murder-suicide, did neighbor see Jennair Gerardot spy on Meredith Chapman?
As to the early theory that it was a murder-suicide, Greenspan said that anyone who knows the couple would find that “unsupportable as a matter of logic.”