Volume Two

Murder in the Family

Contents

Foreword
Introduction
Dedication

Part Two The Violence Experience 3

Chapter 1 The Unimaginable 10

Murder For Money
She Was In The Way
A Recipe For Disaster The Happy Land Social Club
Relatives Injured in Domestic Disputes

Chapter 2 Beyond Reason 29

Murder in The Family
Murder in Farwell Michigan
Surrounded by Success
What we know about the Batterer
Murder at Work
Murder in The Park
Reducing the Number of Murders
She Wore a Pink Suit

Chapter 3 Murder By Gender 73

a. List of the Dead A through Z

Chapter 4 Case Summaries 117

A Through Z

Victims - Year - State - Injury

Chapter 5 Major Categories 482

Chapter 6 Sub - Categories 511

Chapter 7 Yesterday's New 529

Part three

Chapter 8 When Men Murder 540

Men who have murdered three or more women
Men who have murdered in more than one state
Men sentenced to death for murders discussed in this book
Men executed for murders discussed in this book
Rape Advise
You Are A Target If………..

Chapter 9 Yesterday's News 573

Chapter 10 The Women Who Survived 584

a. Sonya Bailey
b. Kristen Grauman
c. Other Women

Chapter 11 The Violence Cycle 600

a. All Over America
b. Janet Reno - Advisory Council on Violence Against Women -
Important Steps to End Violence Against Women
c. Domestic Violence Facts

Chapter 12 The Minnesota Coalition For Battered Women 639

Chapter 13 Why is It Taking So Long? 693

Chapter 14 Preventing Violence Against Women 696

Chapter 15 Do This In Remembrance of Me 714

Chapter 16 In Memory of………….. 722

The First Women to….

Acknowledgements

Afterword

Bibliography

Glossary of Terms

Judges

The Ultimate Punishment

Legal Disposition of Cases

The National Women's Partnership Program

National Coalitions

Thank You

Foreword

We would like to thank you for purchasing Volume One Part Two of "Do This in Remembrance Of Me. " Volume Two is entitled Murder In The Family. While developing this study we came across the situation of murder in the family. The more we researched the more cases we came across that involved murder in the family. The murders were so disconcerting we knew we had to take a closer look at these cases.

We knew we could not ignore one family member murdering another. We had to take a look at the son who murdered his parents, the father who murdered his children, the man who raped and murdered his daughter, the brother who murdered his sister, and the grandchild who murdered his grandparents.

There is a natural response to run from these murders. We are prejudiced against the murderers. We want to ask them why. Why would you kill you father? Why would you kill your mother? Why would you kill your niece? Why would you kill your child? Why would you kill your grandmother?

Finally, after asking these questions over and over again, we end up answering the questions ourselves. We answer for the murderers. We killed them because we were angry. We killed them because we hated. We killed them because we were jealous. We killed them because we were afraid.

Once these questions were answered we knew we were looking at the human soul. We knew we were in an area of darkness. We were in an area where we had no antidotes, no quick fix, and no solution. We were in an area of no answers and this state was intolerable. Finally, we were forced to accept that murder in the family occurs for the same reason murder outside the family occurs. A person becomes angry and unrestrained. The angry leads him or her to commit murder. A person becomes consumed with envy, jealousy or greed and these emotions left unattended leads the person to commit murder.

The emotions of envy, jealousy, greed and fear are the leading cause of murder inside and outside of the family. The concept of family as we know it does not control whether murder is committed or not. Once these emotions surface the person's self-control and ego strength will determines whether murder is committed.