murder-suicide

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murder-suicide (plural murder-suicides)

  1. (criminology) A murder in which the killer subsequently commits suicide.
    • 2018 November 26, Emma Parry, “Woman who fell in love with her brother tells how she’s on a mission to legalise INCEST, allow family members to marry and even have babies together”, in The Sun[1]:
      Pladl, pictured, ended up killing his daughter, his baby and himself in a triple murder-suicide[.]

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