Matricide is the act of killing one's mother. As for any type of killing, motives can vary a great deal. Homicide (Latin homicidium, homo human being + caedere to cut, kill) refers to the act of killing another human being. ... The felony murder rule is a legal doctrine according to which anyone who commits, or is found to be involved in, a serious crime (a felony), during which any person dies, is guilty of murder. ... Consensual homicide refers to a killing in which the victim wants to die. ... Negligent homicide is a charge brought against persons, who by inaction, allow others under their care to die. ... Vehicular homicide is in most places a criminal act involving the killing of a life by hitting it with a vehicle. ... Honour killing is most often the killing of a female, but in some cases also a male, and sometimes his/her family members, love-interests or other associates,[1][2] for supposed sexual or marital offences, typically by his/her own relatives or relatives of a purported romantic interest, with... Assassin and Targeted killing redirect here. ... Ritual murder is murder performed in a ritualistic fashion. ... A proxy murder is a murder in which the murderer does so at the behest of another, acting as his or her proxy. ... Torture murder is a loosely defined legal term to describe murderers who kill their victims by slowly torturing them to death over a prolonged period of time. ... A murder suicide is an act in which an individual kills one or more other persons immediately before, or while killing himself. ... A spree killer is someone who embarks on a murderous rampage. ... Note: for practices of systematically killing very young children, see infanticide For the killing of ones own children, see filicide. ... Lynching is a form of violence, usually murder, conceived of by its perpetrators as extra legal punishment for offenders or as a terrorist method of enforcing social domination. ... A lust murder is a homicide in which the offender stabs, cuts, pierces, slashes, or otherwise mutilates the sexual organs or areas of the victims body. ... Mass murder (massacre) is the act of murdering a large number of people, typically at the same time, or over a relatively short period of time. ... Serial killers are individuals who have a history of multiple slayings of victims who were usually unknown to them beforehand. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... For a discussion of the law in other countries, see manslaughter In the English law of homicide, manslaughter is a less serious offence than murder with the the law differentiating between levels of fault based on the mens rea (Latin for a guilty mind). Manslaughter may be either: Voluntary where... The concept of justifiable homicide in criminal law stands on the dividing line between an excuse and an exculpation. ... Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted criminal by the state as punishment for crimes known as capital crimes or capital offences. ... In sociology and biology, infanticide is the practice of intentionally causing the death of an infant of a given species, by members of the same species - often by the mother. ... Fratricide (from the Latin word frater, meaning: brother and cide meaning to kill) is the act of a person killing his or her brother. ... This article is about a kind of homicide. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Patricide. ... Patricide is (i) the act of killing ones father, or (ii) a person who kills his or her father. ... Mariticide (not to be confused with matricide); from the Latin maritus (married) & cidium (killing), literally means the murder of ones married partner, but has become most associated with the murder of a husband by his wife. ... This page is a candidate to be moved to Wiktionary. ... Filicide is the deliberate act of a parent killing his or her own son or daughter. ... Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the willful act of killing oneself. ... The broad definition of regicide is the deliberate killing of a king, or the person responsible for it. ... Look up Genocide in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Democide is a term created by political scientist R.J. Rummel in order to create a broader concept than the legal definition of genocide. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Abortion, in its most common usage, refers to the voluntary or induced termination of pregnancy, generally through the use of surgical procedures or drugs. ... Look up Killing on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Killing is a family name and the name of several things. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Known or suspected matricides

• Cleopatra III of Egypt was assassinated in 101 BC by order of her son, Ptolemy X, for her conspiring.

• Ptolemy XI of Egypt had his wife, Berenice III, murdered shortly after their wedding in 80 BC. She was also his stepmother, or perhaps his mother.

• In AD 59, the Roman Emperor Nero is said to have ordered the murder of his mother Agrippina the Younger, supposedly because she was conspiring against him.

• Mary Ann Lamb, the mentally ill sister of essayist Charles Lamb, killed their invalid mother during an episode of mania in 1796.

• Sidney Fox, a British man killed his mother in 1929 to gain from her insurance policy. [1] He was convicted and hanged the following year.

• The Parker-Hulme murder case of 1954. This case was chronicled in the film Heavenly Creatures.

• Jack Gilbert Graham killed his mother along with 44 people by planting a dynamite bomb in his mother's suitcase, that was subsequently loaded aboard United Airlines Flight 629 in 1955.

• John Emil List murdered his mother, wife and his three children on November 9, 1971. He was a fugitive for 18 years. He was apprehended on June 1, 1989 after an episode of "Americas Most Wanted" aired. On May 1, 1990 he was sentenced to 5 life terms in prison.

• Serial killer Edmund Kemper beat his mother to death in 1973, along with one of his mother's friends before turning himself in to the police. He had previously committed half-a-dozen sex-murders. Kemper had been psychologically abused by his domineering mother in his youth.

• Ronald DeFeo, Jr. killed his parents and his four siblings in what would later become known as "The Amityville Horror House" (1974)

• Bradford Bishop bludgeoned his mother, spouse and three children to death in 1976. He was indicted for murders and remains at large.

• Susan Cabot, 50's Actress, was beaten to death in 1986 at her Hollywood home by her son Timothy Roman. He was convicted of involuntary manslaughter.

• Brett Reider, a 15-year-old boy in Southwest Omaha Nebraska, stabbed his mother to death during a dispute in 1993. He was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced as an adult to 11-20 years. In 1996, his older sister, Alissa Reider made an HBO documentary: "Brett Killed Mom:a sister's diary", claiming both of them suffered years of constant verbal and physical abuse from their mother. Brett was released in 1999.

• Luke Woodham, Mississippi resident who killed his mother in June of 1997, and currently serving a life sentence at the Mississippi State Penitentiary.

• Dipendra of Nepal (1971-2001) reportedly massacred much of his family at a royal dinner on June 1, 2001, including his mother Queen Aiswarya, father, brother, and sister.

• In 2004, Rachelle Waterman (dubbed the LiveJournal murderer) allegedly arranged to have her mother killed and became an internet celebrity after her LiveJournal blog was exposed.

• Esmie Tseng, a 16-year-old Chinese-American who stabbed her mother to death with a knife in their Overland Park home in Kansas on August 19, 2004.

• Dr. I. Kathleen Hagen, a prominent urologist, killed her mother and her father in August of 2000 and was acquitted on the grounds of insanity.

• Brittany Norris, a 14 year old living in Lemoore California, shot and killed her mother and mother's boyfriend in April of 2006.

• Erika di Nardo killed her mother and his brother in 2001.See Novi Ligure Homicide

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Edmund Kemper Edmund Emil Kemper III (born December 18, 1948 in Burbank, California), also known as The Co-ed Killer, is a serial killer who was active in the early 1970s. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Ronald Joseph DeFeo Junior (born September 26, 1951) is an American murderer. ... The Amityville Horror is a best-selling book by the author Jay Anson which was published in September 1977. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... 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This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mississippi State Penitentiary, also known as Parchman Farm, is the oldest prison and the only maximum security prison in the state of Mississippi, USA. It is located on 18,000 acres (73 km²) in Parchman, Mississippi, and was built in 1901. ... Dipendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev of Nepal (June 27, 1971 – June 4, 2001) was King of Nepal from June 1 to June 4, 2001. ... Queen Aishwarya of Nepals (November 7, 1949 – June 1, 2001) was the Queen of Nepal (1972-2001). ... Rachelle Ann Monica Waterman, aka smchyrocky, (born August 26, 1988) is a teenage girl from Craig, Alaska who was charged with the first degree murder of her mother. ... LiveJournal (often abbreviated LJ) is a virtual community where Internet users can keep a blog, journal, or diary. ... Esmie Tseng, aka rockonlittleone, (born April 7, 1989) is a Kansas teenager charged with stabbing her mother to death at the age of 16. ... Chinese Americans (Chinese language: 美籍華人 or 華裔美國人) are Americans of Chinese descent. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The Novi Ligure Homicide was a brutal multiple murder that took place on the evening of 21 February 2001 in Novi Ligure, Italy. ...

Matricides in fiction

• In Greek mythology, Orestes murdered his mother Clytemnestra to avenge her participation in the killing of his father, Agamemnon.

• In Babylonian legend, the supreme god Marduk slew his mother Tiamet by cutting her in half with a great sword.

• In Greek mythology, Alcmaeon killed his mother Eriphyle. She had coerced her husband Amphiaraus into participating in the Seven Against Thebes expedition, during which he was killed.

• In the animated comedy Family Guy, Stewie Griffin attempts to murder his mother Lois countless times, to humorous effect.

• In the book and film Psycho, matricide is an underlying plot as the character Norman Bates murdered his mother and then developed Dissociative identity disorder, pretending to be his mother to relieve the guilt of murdering her.

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See also

• Patricide, the killing of one's father
• Fratricide, the killing of one's brother
• Sororicide, the killing of one's sister
• Filicide, the killing of one's child
• Suicide, the killing of one's self