Facebook has a dark side. A side where it is used to share details of crimes, impersonate someone else for sinister intentions, stalk a victim, bully a victim and in some cases murder a victim.
On 20th June 2001 in Houston, Texas, Andrea Yates drowned her five children one after the other in the bathtub of her family home. Four sons, John (5), Luke (2), Paul (3) and Noah (7), and one daughter Mary, just 6 months old.
The Canadian case of Jennifer Pan in 2010 features some unique characteristics within the dark world of parricide; when a child kills their own parents.
Neonaticide, the killing of a child within its first 24 hours of life, is widely believed a female-only crime and one a woman is judged very harshly for.
Research from the Netherlands studied the self-reports of victims who had experienced abuse and criminal victimisation because of their mental illness.