Surge of Female-Perpetrated Domestic Homicides
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September 21, 2024. Updated October 11 and October 25, 2024
Thousands of studies over the last 40 years show conclusively that domestic violence is not a gendered phenomenon – men and women commit and are victimized by domestic violence at near equal rates.
There is evidence going back 20 years that younger women have become significantly more violent in recent years. Accordingly, a flurry of stories have been published in recent weeks about women who murdered their male partners. In some of these cases, the women made false allegations of domestic violence against their partners, claimed self-defense, or both.
The following media reports, listed in reverse chronological order, suggest that police and prosecutors may be doing a better job of seeing through the false narrative that domestic violence consists of male perpetrators and female victims:
Oct. 14, 2024: Woman pleads guilty to voluntary manslaughter in boyfriend’s death
https://www.kget.com/news/crime-watch/woman-pleads-guilty-to-voluntary-manslaughter-in-boyfriends-death/
Oct. 8, 2024: Wichita woman booked into Florida jail after husband is shot during dispute at hotel
https://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article293674544.html#storylink=cpy
Oct. 9, 2024: Maryland woman arrested for hitting boyfriend with car, killing him
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/crime/maryland-crime-st-marys-county-lexington-park-state-police/65-a59d857a-b330-44b5-bd10-1226958998a9
October 7: She Killed Her Husband and a Lookalike Whose Identity She Tried to Steal. In New HBO Doc, She Reveals Why
https://people.com/lois-reiss-woman-killed-husband-lookalike-hbo-docuseries-8723086
October 3: Utah Wife Allegedly Shot Serviceman Husband in Head as He Slept, Then Tried to Cover It Up
October 3: Wife Was Caught on Dashcam Injecting Husband with Poison, Which Killed Him in Minutes: ‘Get Off of Me!’
https://people.com/wife-was-caught-on-dashcam-injecting-husband-with-poison-8722994
October 3: Florida Woman Accused of Murdering Boyfriend in Suitcase Begs Judge for Professional Hair and Makeup
September 30: Texas Woman ‘Beats her Husband to Death’ After He ‘Hid her Xanax from Her’
https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/texas-woman-beats-husband-death-722479
September 29: Woman beat her husband to death after he ‘hid her Xanax from her’: Police
September 26: 61-year-old visits neighbor and says she beat her husband to death, Texas cops say
www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article293092694.html#storylink=cpy
Sept 24, 2024: Chesapeake wife charged with killing husband granted bond over prosecutors’ objections
https://www.pilotonline.com/2024/09/24/chesapeake-wife-charged-with-killing-husband-granted-bond-over-prosecutors-objections/
Sept. 24, 2024: NYC woman kills boyfriend — then tries to claim he was drunk and fatally stumbled into cabinet: prosecutors
https://nypost.com/2024/09/24/us-news/nyc-fatally-stabs-beau-hides-knife-in-dishwasher-while-talking-to-911-prosecutors/
September 23: Chesapeake woman told police she shot husband to protect children, court record says
https://www.pilotonline.com/2024/09/23/woman-charged-with-shooting-killing-husband-in-chesapeake/
September 21: Queens woman calls police, confesses to knifing husband to death: police sources
September 19: Woman accused of fatally shooting husband in Tracy
https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/woman-accused-of-fatally-shooting-husband-in-tracy/
Sept 18, 2024: Police find nude man shot to death in Fort Worth bedroom, arrest girlfriend in killing
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/crime/article292672409.html#storylink=cpy
Sept 16, 2024: Appleton woman charged with fatally stabbing boyfriend
https://www.wbay.com/2024/09/16/appleton-woman-charged-with-fatally-stabbing-boyfriend/
September 16: He went to his ex-girlfriend’s San Leandro home with a hidden camera to avoid ‘false accusations.’ It was still running when she killed him, police say
September 16: She Killed Her Husband and Impersonated Him on Facebook. It Was How She Hid the Body That Led to Arrest
https://people.com/laurie-leigh-shaver-killed-husband-impersonated-facebook-buried-fire-pit-8713257
Sept 13, 2024: Girlfriend arrested with charges of killing her boyfriend in Pleasanton home, police say
September 8: Woman Claimed She Killed Husband in Self-Defense — But Security Footage Told Different Story
https://www.oxygen.com/snapped/crime-news/felicia-barden-kills-husband-willie-security-footage
September 7: Woman mutilates boyfriend with chainsaw in front of their 4-year-old child
September 6: ‘Black Swan’ Had a Gun in Her Bra the Night She Met Her Husband. 4 Years Later, She Killed Him
https://people.com/black-swan-ballerina-gun-bra-night-met-husband-killed-years-later-8707770
September 5: ‘My stepmom stabbed my dad’: Woman allegedly killed boyfriend while his kids were at home and asked girl to lie on 911 call about who did it
September 2: Police: Claremore Woman Shoots, Kills Boyfriend
https://www.news9.com/story/66d5a5b3e7fe61a6a51e8468/police:-claremore-woman-shoots-kills-boyfriend
August 21: Woman hits boyfriend on motorcycle, drags him 58 feet, then backs over him, officials say
https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article291259180.html#storylink=cpy
August 19: Jacksonville woman arrested, accused of stabbing and killing boyfriend