Diane Downs
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Elizabeth Diane Downs is an American woman who murdered her daughter and attempted to murder her other two children on May 19, 1983, in Oregon. She claimed to police that a man had shot her and the ch
Downs in 1984
Filicide
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Filicide is the deliberate act of a parent killing their own child. The word filicide is derived from the Latin words filius and filia and the suffix -cide, from the word caedere meaning 'to kill'. Th
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Painting by Peter Paul Rubens of Cronus devouring one of his children
Postumius kills his son for betraying his orders by Domenico Beccafumi
Constantine the Great, who executed his son for unknown reasons
Saturn Devouring His Son, by Francisco de Goya