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Degrees of Monstrosity: Female Killers
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Dangerous Daughters: Women who commit parricide
Dangerous Daughters (Part 1): What is Parricide?
Dangerous Daughters (Part 1): What is Parricide?
She slunk down the hallway, moonlight glinting off the knife in her hand when she passed open doorways, letting silver slivers of light…
Lavinia Thompson
Jul 15, 2022
Dangerous Daughters (part 2): Severely Abused Child
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Dangerous Daughters (part 3): Mentally Ill Offenders
Lavinia Thompson
Dangerous Daughters (part 4): Dangerously Antisocial Young Offender
Lavinia Thompson
Dangerous Daughters (part 5): Dangerously Antisocial Women
Lavinia Thompson
Dangerous Daughters (Part 6): Enraged Offenders
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Dangerous Daughters (part 7): Battered Child Syndrome as a defense in court
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Fatal Maternity
Fatal Maternity: Mothers Who Kill
Fatal Maternity: Mothers Who Kill
A deep dive into the tragic and horrifying cases of women who kill their children
Lavinia Thompson
Apr 28, 2022
Fatal Maternity (part 2): Altruistic Filicide
Fatal Maternity (part 2): Altruistic Filicide
For a mother to take the life of her children, believing wholeheartedly that she is rescuing her beloved babies from a fate worse than…
Lavinia Thompson
May 1, 2022
Fatal Maternity (Part 3): Acutely Psychotic Filicide
Fatal Maternity (Part 3): Acutely Psychotic Filicide
A murder with no comprehensive motive is startling. It becomes especially jarring when a mother murders her children, and is horrified that…
Lavinia Thompson
May 8, 2022
Fatal Maternity (part 4): Unwanted Child Filicide
Fatal Maternity (part 4): Unwanted Child Filicide
We like to believe that, as a society, we have evolved past the point from when baby corpses were dumped in alleyways and obscure crevices…
Lavinia Thompson
May 15, 2022
Fatal Maternity (part 5): Child Maltreatment
Fatal Maternity (part 5): Child Maltreatment
This series started with filicidal mothers who lost themselves to mental illness. Who, in the chaotic midst of a psychotic episode or…
Lavinia Thompson
May 22, 2022
Fatal Maternity (part 6): Spousal Revenge Filicide
Fatal Maternity (part 6): Spousal Revenge Filicide
When the Greek enchantress Medea married the leader of the Argonauts, Jason, she devoted her gift of prophecy and magic to help him obtain…
Lavinia Thompson
May 28, 2022
Fatal Maternity (part 7): The Infanticide Law Controversy
Fatal Maternity (part 7): The Infanticide Law Controversy
It confounds some that there exists a law that protects women who murder their children. The crime is horrific; it robs life from those…
Lavinia Thompson
Jun 4, 2022
Fatal Maternity (part 8): Rehabilitating the Mothers
Fatal Maternity (part 8): Rehabilitating the Mothers
The biggest controversy in the true crime and justice world is whether offenders can be rehabilitated to the point they harmlessly and…
Lavinia Thompson
Jun 12, 2022
Fatal Maternity (part 9, final): The Survivors
Fatal Maternity (part 9, final): The Survivors
Trigger warning: I don’t always add these warnings (this is true crime, I feel like people expect some level of graphic and potentially…
Lavinia Thompson
Jun 19, 2022
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