Linda and Charlotte Mulhall grew up believing that protecting their mother was their responsibility. So when their mother asked them to kill the man who had abused her, they did. In this episode of Cycles That Kill, Dr. Dylesia examines the Mulhall Sisters case through the lens of emotional parentification, instrumental parentification, the intergenerational transmission of domestic violence, trauma-conditioned caregiving, and the absent protection pattern. This is not just a story about two sisters who dismembered a man, it’s a story about daughters who were trained to carry a burden that was never theirs to hold, a mother who raised her children to become her protectors, and the deadly consequences of a cycle no one interrupted.