Uxoricide (from Latin uxor meaning "wife") is murder of one's wife. It can refer to the act itself or the man who carries it out. Uxoricide is often preceeded by the wife's attempt to leave her husband, or by real or suspected infidelity. Overkill is reported to be common in these slayings, presumably reflecting the emotional state of the killer. Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ... Look up infidelity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... PC-Game - Alien Shooter 2, Flamethrower Overkill Overkill is a slang term for the use of excessive force that seems to go much further than necessary to achieve its goal. ...

In many patriarchal cultures uxoricide is regarded less harshly than other forms of homicide, especially in cases of adultery. It may even be regarded as the correct, honourable thing to do. (See honor killing) A patriarch (from Greek: patria means father; arché means rule, beginning, origin) is a male head of an extended family exercising autocratic authority, or, by extension, a member of the ruling class or government of a society controlled by senior men. ... Homicide (Latin homicidium, homo human being + caedere to cut, kill) refers to the act of killing another human being. ... Adultery is voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and a partner other than the lawful spouse. ... An honor killing is a murder, nearly exclusively of a woman, who has been perceived as having brought dishonor to her family. ...

Uxoricide in fiction

• The titular character in William Shakespeare's play Othello murders his wife Desdemona, under the false belief that she had committed adultery.

• Uxoricide is a key event in the legendary horror/mystery film I Saw What You Did.

• In the Agatha Christie novel Death on the Nile, Simon Doyle and his former fiancée Jacqueline plot to murder his wife, the wealthy Linnet.

• In the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica television series, Colonel Saul Tigh kills his wife, Ellen Tigh, after she betrays the New Caprica resistance movement to the Cylons.

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Known or suspected uxoricides

18th century illustration of Matthias Brinsden murdering his wife.

• Cambyses II of Persia married two of his sisters and installed the younger as queen consort of Egypt. During his insanity, he murdered her for weeping for their brother Smerdis, whom Cambyses had murdered.

• Ptolemy XI of Egypt had his wife and stepmother, Berenice III, murdered nineteen days after their wedding in 80 BC. Afterwards, Ptolemy was lynched by the citizens of Alexandria, with whom Berenice was very popular.

• Roman Emperor Tiberius probably had his second wife, Julia, starved to death in 14 AD, while she was in exile on Pandataria. Their marriage was unhappy, and he had been publicly embarrassed by her adultery years earlier. Her alleged paramour, Sempronius Gracchus, was executed around the same time on Tiberius’s orders.

• Roman Emperor Nero ordered the death of his first wife, Octavia, soon after divorcing her in 62 AD. He also reportedly kicked his second wife, Poppaea Sabina, to death in 65 AD after an argument.

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

• In 1994, former football star and actor O.J. Simpson was charged with the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ronald Goldman outside Brown-Simpson's Brentwood, CA condominium. In what the media dubbed "The Trial of the Century", Simpson was acquitted in 1995 of criminal first-degree murder, but was later convicted in a civil wrongful death suit brought by the Goldman family and ordered to pay over $30 million in damages.

• Actor Robert Blake was found not guilty of the 2001 murder of his wife Bonnie Lee Bakley, but was found liable for her wrongful death in a 2005 civil suit filed by her children from previous marriages.

• Scott Peterson murdered his pregnant wife Laci Peterson in 2002. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 2005.

• Mark Hacking murdered his wife Lori Hacking in 2004. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 2005.

• On October 10, 2006, Hans Reiser was arrested and subsequently charged with the murder of his wife, Nina Reiser.

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References

• Uxoricide in Fiji
• Malinka project report