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Surge of Female-Perpetrated Domestic Homicides

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Surge of Female-Perpetrated Domestic Homicides

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September 21, 2024. Updated October 11, 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:

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

https://people.com/utah-woman-allegedly-shot-national-guardsman-husband-and-disposed-of-his-body-8722947

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

https://nypost.com/2024/10/03/us-news/florida-woman-accused-of-killing-boyfriend-in-suitcase-requests-hair-and-makeup-for-murder-trial/

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

https://lawandcrime.com/crime/woman-beat-her-husband-to-death-after-he-hid-her-xanax-from-her-police/amp/

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

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

https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/09/21/queens-woman-calls-police-confesses-to-knifing-husband-to-death-police-say/

September 19: Woman accused of fatally shooting husband in Tracy

https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/woman-accused-of-fatally-shooting-husband-in-tracy/

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

https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/09/16/he-went-to-his-ex-girlfriends-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

Laurie Leigh Shaver, 41, of Fla., was found guilty of second-degree murder with a firearm for killing her husband, Michael Douglas Shaver, 36, in 2015, authorities said

https://people.com/laurie-leigh-shaver-killed-husband-impersonated-facebook-buried-fire-pit-8713257

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

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13825697/Woman-Alabama-boyfriend-chainsaw-child-trash-bags.html

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

https://lawandcrime.com/crime/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

https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/jacksonville-woman-arrested-stabbing-killing-boyfriend/OLFQ4J47TBAKNN6G7KWQ2RNW5I/