Homicide in Chicago 1870-1930
 
1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s  

Murder/Suicides


 

In a number of these cases the defendant killed his wife, or wife and children, and then killed himself, or attempted to kill himself. And there are some cases where a woman killed her husband or her children, and then killed herself or attempted to kill herself.

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View video of Cynthia Grant Bowman, author of Wife Murder in Chicago: 1910-1930



View video of Michelle Oberman, author of Understanding Infanticide in Context: Mothers Who Kill, 1870-1930 and Today

"I Loved Joe, but I Had to Shoot Him": Homicide by Women in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago by Jeffrey S. Adler