Boston public radio host Robin Young recently looked at a troubling rise in the most horrifying crime: familicide.
The term may not be familiar yet, but the concept sure is -- the murder
of an entire family, usually by a father who then commits suicide.
There are currently four to six of these crimes nationwide each year,
yet Young's guest, Dr. Richard Gelles of the University of
Pennsylvania, says that today's economic crisis is driving a spike in
this type of crime, during which we can expect to see a dozen or more a
year.
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