Rising Toll of Female-Perpetrated Partner Homicides
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April 21, 2025. Updated May 3 and July 29.
Following is a listing of female-perpetrated homicides of their partners and family members, thus far in 2025:
- Ex-wife of Berkeley professor arrested after his shooting death amid custody battle
Przemyslaw Jeziorski was shot dead in Greece while in the country to settle a custody dispute.
July 17, 2025
2. SC woman found guilty of killing father of her children, gets life in prison
June 17, 2025
3. Woman shoots father during custody exchange in Largo: PCSO
June 1, 2025
https://www.fox13news.com/news/woman-shoots-father-during-custody-exchange-largo-pcso
4. Man killed during child custody exchange, Harris County deputies say
A man was fatally shot during a custody exchange involving a toddler in Harris County.
May 9, 2025
5. Woman gets life sentence for fatal 2023 shooting during custody exchange on Christmas Day
April 29, 2025
6. She Was Forced to Share Custody of Their Daughter — So She Had Someone Kill Her Ex in Front of the Girl
April 29, 2025
https://people.com/woman-forced-share-custody-has-former-stepfather-kills-ex-11724091
7. Dad shows up to custody swap with another woman, then mom kills her, FL cops say
April 29, 2025
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article305315951.html
8. Navarre woman sentenced to life in prison for setting up murder of her child’s father
April 28, 2025
9. Alabama woman sentenced to life after running over, killing father of her children in 2022
April 25, 2025
10. Ponchatoula woman shoots husband, takes own life
April 15, 2025
https://www.fox8live.com/2025/04/15/ponchatoula-woman-shoots-husband-takes-own-life/
11. Mich. Woman Lit Her Husband on Fire and Then Ran Him Over with the Family Van, Jury Finds
April 14, 2025
https://people.com/mich-woman-lit-husband-fire-ran-over-him-van-11714627
12. Monica Sementilli found guilty of murder in plot to kill prominent LA hairdresser
April 11, 2025
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/jury-guilty-murder-hairdresser-husband-fabio-sementilli/
13. Pennsylvania judge is convicted of shooting and wounding her ex-boyfriend as he slept
April 9, 2025
https://www.cnn.com/us/pennsylvania-judge-convicted-shooting-ex-boyfriend/index.html
14. Hospital Staff Believed Husband’s Death Was Suspicious. An Autopsy Revealed the Unthinkable
April 1, 2025
https://people.com/antifreeze-murder-wife-convicted-killing-husband-11706754
15. North Carolina woman allegedly murdered Green Beret husband, concealed his death: Officials
March 31, 2025
16. Woman charged with murdering husband after body found on plastic sheet in Philadelphia
March 25, 2025
17. Woman allegedly shoots, kills husband in Jackson
Feb. 23, 2025
https://www.wlbt.com/2025/02/23/woman-allegedly-shoots-kills-husband-jackson/
18. Bond denied again for Manassas woman accused of killing husband in domestic dispute
January 14, 2025
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/manassas-woman-accused-killing-husband
19. Man, 32, fatally stabbed in clash with girlfriend inside NYC apartment: Cops
Jan. 13, 2025
These are recent incidents in which women tried to hire hit-men to kill their husbands:
Ex-Wife of Former Tenn. TV Anchor Tried to Hire Hitman to Make Him ‘Disappear and Be Put Underground’: Police
April 14, 2025
https://people.com/ex-wife-former-tenn-tv-anchor-tried-hire-hitman-disappear-11715107
Woman charged with trying to hire hitman on Tinder to kill ex, his daughter
April 10, 2025
https://abcnews.go.com/US/woman-charged-hire-hitman-kill-daughter/story?id=120682186
Wife of ‘Ghost Adventures’ star Aaron Goodwin accused of hiring a hitman to kill him
March 12, 2025
Following is a partial listing of incidents in which a mother murdered her son or daughter:
An Oklahoma pediatrician is accused of staging her daughter’s accidental death in Florida
Dr. Neha Gupta said her daughter was found unresponsive in a pool, authorities said. The medical examiner’s office said she appeared to have been smothered.
July 3, 2025
‘I wish you well in hell.’ Ex-Miami nurse sentenced to life for her daughter’s murder
April 30, 2025
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article305297136.html