The Arlington Murders And The Psychology Behind Family Annihilation
3,011 views · Published 20 November 2013 · 5:56 · Indexed 19 October 2026
Channel: GBH News · 2013 · News & Politics
It's one of those stories that stops you in your tracks: an entire family of four, including two infants, wiped out. While the kind of crime scene discovered in Arlington this week is rare, it happens often enough that a term has been coined to describe it. Family annihilation, when a member of a family kills everyone else and usually takes his own life.
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