In what must be one of the darkest research projects we've covered, a British team has studied 32 years' worth of "family annihilator" cases, where one member of a family murders multiple others. Some patterns emerge from the 71 cases they found.
For one, the killers were overwhelmingly male: 59 of the subjects. Of those, more than half were in their thirties. About 20 percent of the killing happened in August, and almost half happened on weekends, mostly on Sundays.
Why? The researchers write that many of the cases are based on perceptions of masculinity and power being challenged. The…
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