How many serial killers have a medical illness that drives them to kill? How many innocent  people are sent to death row each year? Answers to these questions and more await you in this episode that is all about homicide.  Check out the instagram page the_z_files_podcast for weekly crime fact drops!

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Child abuse info sheet: https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubpdfs/whatiscan.pdf

Sources:
https://www.domesticshelters.org/articles/in-the-news/women-serve-longer-prison-sentences-after-killing-abusers

https://everytownresearch.org/report/guns-and-violence-against-women-americas-uniquely-lethal-intimate-partner-violence-problem/

Friedman, Susan H. , Sarah McCue Horwitz, and Phillip J. Resnick.  2005. “Child Murder by Mothers: A Critical Analysis of the Current State of Knowledge and a Research Agenda.” Am J Psychiatry; 162:1578-1587

FBI.gov

https://projects.voanews.com/mass-shootings/

https://documents.deathpenaltyinfo.org/pdf/FactSheet.pdf