Just 6% of mass murders are by women. Here’s how, when and why they kill
- Written by Xanthe Mallett, Criminologist, CQUniversity Australia
The world has been transfixed by the case of Erin Patterson: the Australian woman convicted of mass murder, having brutally killed three members of her family using death cap mushrooms, as well as the attempted murder of a fourth.
While Australia doesn’t have a strict definition, mass murder, also referred to as “mass killing”,...
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