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
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
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
Filicide
…and disappeared. He was apprehended over seventeen years later in June 1989 after being featured in an episode of America's Most Wanted. Cheryl Downs Diane Downs Mother 19 May 1983 Springfield, Oregon, United States Diane Downs shot her three children and drove them to McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center, where…
Downs in 1984