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patricide

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Recent Examples of patricide This may be the highest profile local example of fiduciary law since the Menendez brothers’ trials three decades ago, when their family estate spent nearly $2 million to unsuccessfully defend them in the patricide of their parents. — Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 17 Aug. 2026 Bass in June 2024 saw the patricide plan to it to its end, reducing his father, Gene Bass, to a crumple outside a neighbor’s house in the orderly subdivision where Xavier grew up near North Crowley High School. — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Aug. 2026 The opera is known for its modernist music, performed by one of the largest orchestras in operatic repertoire, which uses dramatically harsh harmonies to embody its themes of grief, revenge and patricide. — Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 12 May 2026 Walt had long described himself as a benevolent father to his workers, and the strike seemed an act of personal betrayal and disloyalty verging on patricide. — Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026 The second season’s focus on the Menendez brothers’ patricide is loud, confrontational, and approaches the case from multiple perspectives at once, which can either come across as daring or incoherent. — Joe Reid, Vulture, 24 May 2025 When Joe is implicated in financial misdeeds connected to land deals conducted on the tribe’s behalf, Mack seizes upon the news to banish Joe from the reservation, a symbolic patricide also intended to damage Gloria’s campaign. — Christopher Sorrentino, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2025 The movie includes intense domestic abuse (verbal, physical and emotional), gun violence, death and descriptions of patricide. — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 19 July 2024

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In the case of Tom Brandis, played by the singular Mark Ruffalo, a tragedy (matricide) has devastated his family unit.

— Justin Kroll, Deadline, 2 June 2026
At the center of the installation is the myth of Orestes, which hinges on the justification of matricide.

— Eana Kim, ARTnews.com, 27 Apr. 2026

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But instead of employing a ball gown, glass slippers, and a grand carriage made from a pumpkin, the renegade maid comes to her damsel in distress armed with a different kind of escape plan—one involving an axe and a double parricide.

— Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 4 Aug. 2026
The Avici hell is the lowest and most terrible level of the eight hot hells of Buddhism, where those who’ve committed serious crimes (like parricide) must face constant suffering.

— Regina Kim, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026

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They were rewarded for their regicide when Thatcher’s successor, John Major, unexpectedly won the following election in 1992.

— Ian King, CNBC, 24 June 2026
Unlike the Conservative Party, however, Labour does not have a history of regicide; the party has never mounted an official challenge against a sitting prime minister.

— Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 11 May 2026

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Each year in the United States there are nearly 500 arrests for filicide – which is the legal term for when parents kill their children – according to an analysis of FBI data by Forensic Science International.

— Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2026
More rare are filicides of the sort Elkins allegedly committed.

— Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 21 Apr. 2026

Definition of filicide

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Detectives charged him with murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon for the vicious attack that killed his mother, 57-year-old Josefa Soto de Guzman, on Friday.

— Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 26 Aug. 2026
Hatami has spearheaded a number of high-profile cases against child abusers in Los Angeles, California, including the murder of 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez, who was tortured and killed by his mother and her boyfriend.

— Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2026

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