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murder-suicide  

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  • Murder-suicides are tragic and unpredictable events in which the perpetrators are usually male and murder one or more individuals within a very short time, and then commit suicide. Most of the thousands of murder-suicides that take place each year occur in families, and usually the victims are wives, ex-wives, or girlfriends, and children under 10 years of age. [Source: Encyclopedia of Murder and Violent Crime; Murder-Suicide]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-NNBLT8HS-2

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