6. Ibid., 19.
CHAPTER 7: DEATH BY THE NUMBERS
1. Richard J. Gelles and Murray Arnold Straus, Intimate Violence: The Causes and Consequences of Abuse in the American Family (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989), 51.
2. Unless otherwise noted, information about the Christopher Foster case was gathered through police statements and records, phone interviews with friends, and several news reports.
3. The Millionaire and the Murder Mansion, directed by Nick Poyntz, 2009.
4. Violence Policy Center, “American Roulette: Murder-Suicide in the United States,” 4th ed. (Washington, DC: Violence Policy Center, May 2012), 13.
5. Violence Policy Center, “American Roulette: Murder-Suicide in the United States,” 3rd ed. (Washington, DC: Violence Policy Center, April 2008), 13.
6. Violence Policy Center, “American Roulette,” 4th ed., 8.
7. Ibid., 6.
8. Ibid., 8.
9. Ibid.
10. Violence Policy Center, “American Roulette,” 3rd ed., 8.
11. Violence Policy Center, “American Roulette,” 4th ed., 8.
12. Websdale, Neil, Familicidal Hearts: The Emotional Styles of 211 Killers (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), 259.
13. Wood, Joanne N., et al., “Local Macroeconomic Trends and Hospital Admissions for Child Abuse, 2000–2009,” Pediatrics 130, no. 2 (Aug. 2012): 358.
14. Ibid., 360.
15. US Department of Defense Casualty Status, March 25, 2013, http://www.defense.gov/news/casualty.pdf.
16. UNICEF, “A League Table of Child Maltreatment Deaths in Rich Nations,” Innocenti Report Card 5 (Florence, Italy: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Sept. 2003), 4.
17. Ibid., 7.
18. Ibid., 2.
19. Ibid., 11.
20. Children’s Bureau, “Child Maltreatment 2011” (Washington, DC: Department of Health & Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Children’s Bureau, 2012), 56.
21. Ibid., 19.
22. Ibid., 20.
23. Ibid., 56–57.
24. Ibid., 59.
25. Zimmerman, Francie, and James A. Mercy, “A Better Start: Child Maltreatment Prevention as a Public Health Priority,” Zero to Three (May 2010): 5.
26. Finkelhor, D., et al., “Violence, Abuse, and Crime Exposure in a National Sample of Children and Youth,” Pediatrics 124, no. 5 (Oct. 2009): 1.
27. Children’s Bureau, “Child Maltreatment 2011,” 56.
28. US Government Accountability Office, “Child Maltreatment: Strengthening National Data on Child Fatalities Could Aid in Prevention” (Washington DC: Report to the Chairman, Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, July 2011), cover findings.
29. Ibid., 16.
30. Ibid., 2.
31. Ibid., 21.
32. Ibid., cover findings.
33. Ibid., 13.
34. Ibid., 25.
35. Ibid., 31.
36. Ibid., 34–35.
37. Cooper, Alexia, and Erica L. Smith, “Homicide Trends in the United States, 1980–2008: Annual Rates for 2009 and 2010” (Washington, DC: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Nov. 2011), 20.
38. Ibid., 21.
39. Medina, Sheyla P., et al., “Tracking Child Abuse and Neglect: The Role of Multiple Data Sources in Improving Child Safety,” Evidence to Action (Fall 2012): 1.
CHAPTER 8: TRAIL OF TEARS
1. Unless otherwise noted, all information about the following crimes was obtained from police and court records and police statements that are available to the public and were reported widely in the news.
2. “Missing Child’s Body Found in Dumpster,” WREG Memphis, July 3, 2012, http://www.wreg.com/2012/07/03/missing-3-year-old-boy-found/.
3. “No Parent Should Ever Have to Say a Final Goodbye to a Young Child,” WNCT, July 13, 2012, http://www.wnct.com/story/21013377/no-parent-should-ever-have-to-say-a-final-goodbye-to-a-young-child.
4. Quotes from experts and researchers here are all from personal interviews with the author.
5. UNICEF, “Measuring Child Poverty: New League Tables of Child Poverty in the World’s Rich Countries,” Innocenti Report Card 10 (Florence, Italy: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2012), 10.
6. Ibid., 3.
7. Burstain, Jane, testimony before the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee of Ways and Means, US House of Representatives, June 12, 2011.
8. Fang, Xiangming, et al., “The Economic Burden of Child Maltreatment in the United States and Implications for Prevention,” Child Abuse and Neglect 36, no. 2 (Feb. 2012): 156.
9. Zimmerman, Francie, and James A. Mercy, “A Better Start: Child Maltreatment Prevention as a Public Health Priority,” Zero to Three (May 2010): 5.
CHAPTER 9: CONTROL FREAK
1. Nibley, Preston, Brigham Young: The Man and His Work (Salt Lake City: Deseret 1937), 119–23.
2. All information in this chapter was gathered from police and court records available to the public and reported widely in the news, interviews with family and friends, and e-mails written by Susan.
CHAPTER 11: GONE
1. All information in this chapter was obtained in interviews with family and friends of Susan Cox Powell, and from police and court records available to the public and widely reported in the news.
2. “FBI Expert: Why Police Raided Josh Powell’s Home,” Today Show, NBC, August 26, 2011.
3. Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, Children’s Administration Child Fatality Review, Charles Powell, Braden Powell, April 26–27 and June 8, 2012.
CHAPTER 12: THIS MODERN LIFE
1. This narrative of the William Beadle family annihilation is based on accounts in newspaper articles and letters written at the time, a poem, and the last will and testament written by William Beadle in a collection from the Wethersfield Historical Society of Wethersfield, Connecticut, with excerpts quoted in Smart, James R., A Life of William Beadle (self-published senior thesis, Princeton University, 1989) and the book by Mitchell, S. M., A Narrative of the Life of William Beadle, 4th ed. (Greenfield, CT: 1805).
2. Mitchell, Narrative of the Life of William Beadle, 6.
3. Smart, Life of William Beadle, 8–9.
4. Mitchell, Narrative of the Life of William Beadle.
5. Fitzgerald, N. K., “Towards and American Abraham: Multiple Parricide and the Rejection of Revelation in the Early National Period” (master’s thesis, Brown University, 1971).
6. “Fresh Advices from Our Correspondent,” London Intelligencer, October 14, 1755.
7. Cohen, Daniel A., “Homicidal Compulsion and the Conditions of Freedom: The Social and Psychological Origins of Familicide in America’s Early Republic,” Journal of Social History 28, no. 4 (Summer 1995): 725.
8. Websdale, Neil, Familicidal Hearts: The Emotional Styles of 211 Killers (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), 26–27.
9. Ibid., 33.
10. Ibid., 44.
11. Ibid., 21.
12. Ibid., 139.
13. Ibid., 154.
14. Ibid., 155.
15. Ibid., 176.
16. Ibid., 177.
17. Ibid., 176–177.
18. List, J., with Austin Goodrich, Collateral Damage: The John List Story (New York: iUniverse Incorporated, 2006): 45–47.
19. Ibid., 281.
CHAPTER 13: MASKED
1. This account is based on police and court records and transcripts; interviews with investigators, lawyers, and Scott and Laci Peterson’s friends; and several weeks covering Scott Peterson’s murder trial for the New York Daily News.
2. “Behind Closed Doors,” People, June 2, 2003.
3. Cleckley, Hervey, The Mask of Sanity: An Attempt to Reinterpret the So-Called Psychopathic Personality (New York: CV Mosby, 1941), 369–370.
4. McGinness, Joe, Final Vision (New York: Byliner, 2013).
5. McGinness, Joe, Fatal Vision (New York: Signet Boo
ks, 1984), 104–105.
6. Ibid., 140–141.
CHAPTER 14: CLASH
1. Unless otherwise noted, all information about the murder of Jessica Mokdad is based on police and court records available to the public and an interview with Jessica’s mom, Wendy Wasinski.
2. “Outraged and Outrageous,” New York Times, October 8, 2010, sec. MB, 1.
CHAPTER 15: INFIDEL
1. Hirsi Ali, Ayaan, Infidel (New York: Free Press 2008), xxii.
2. AHA Foundation, http://theahafoundation.org/about/ (May 8, 2012).
3. “Muslim Women Face Threat in US,” USA Today, March 5, 2012.
4. “Culture of Discrimination: A Fact Sheet on ‘Honor’ Killings,” Women’s Human Rights Program, Amnesty International USA.
5. “Honor Thy Father: The Inside Story of the Young Muslim Woman ‘Honor Killed’ by Her Father Because He Believed She’d Become Too Americanized,” Phoenix New Times, April 1, 2010, 1.
6. All information about the Shafia murder case is from police and court records and transcripts available to the public.
7. “Should We Call It Honor Killing?” Montreal Gazette, January 31, 2012.
CHAPTER 16: WHAT TO DO
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7. Ibid., 171.
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