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Women who killed husbands ‘rarely gave a warning,’ and most weren’t abused, study finds
Conventional wisdom suggests that women usually kill their spouses in self defence or as a final, desperate reaction to chronic battery, the burning-bed syndrome that is sometimes cited as a defence in murder trials. A new Canadian study, however, suggests that barely a quarter of husband-killers are victims of domestic abuse, less than half suffer from any identified psychological problem, and fewer still have had trouble with police.
Graphic: Where are Toronto’s murders happening?
When Justin and Jerome Waterman were found on Feb. 20, shot in the head in a North York parking garage, the 2012 Toronto homicide total climbed to eight. But focusing soley on the year-to-date caseload ignores what came before. A look at the locations of the homicides since 2006 reveals a lot about our city.
Map: Toronto’s 2011 murders to date
On March 3, Toronto Police found the body of a Toronto man, with no known enemies, in his west-end home. According to police, Allan Lanteigne, 49, was the city’s 14th homicide victim of 2011.
