Murder-suicide, Family Murder | featured news

A 911 call recording reveals a social worker's attempts over a more than six-minute call to get a dispatcher to send authorities quickly to the home of Josh Powell after he locked himself and his two sons in the home he then set ablaze....

Naiyana Patel, 33, is said to have killed her daughters, aged seven and four in Asheville, North Carolina, then tried to take her own life after a failed pregnancy.

A woman who is accused of killing her two small children before shooting and wounding herself at their home in west Harris County earlier this month has died at the hospital, officials said.

A man who recently told a relative he was having marital problems called 911 and informed a dispatcher that he had fatally shot his wife and three young children and was getting ready to kill himself, too, authorities and his grandmother said Saturday.

A 10-year-old boy escaped through the window of a minivan and swam to shore to get help just as his mother drove the van into New York's Hudson River, killing herself and three other children, police said Wednesday....

An Indiana woman shot her three children and set the family's house on fire before turning the gun on herself, police said.

A college student who was wounded in a shooting that killed his mother and brother told Va. police his father lured him to the family's house. The father later killed himself, authorities said.

More than $20 million from dozens of clients is unaccounted for in the aftermath of what police say was a murder-suicide by the attorney who invested the money, according to a source with direct knowledge of deceased lawyer William Parente's financial dealings.

A New York man who killed his wife, two daughters and himself in a Maryland hotel room may have had serious financial problems, police said.

Frederick man who killed his wife, three children last week owed more than $450,000, police say.