Flashcards: Patricides

The Thurston High School shooting took place on May 21, 1998.

Oedipus (US /ˈidᵻpəs/ or /ˈɛdᵻpəs/ or UK /ˈiːdᵻpəs/; Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους Oidípous meaning "swollen foot") was a mythical Greek king of Thebes.

Marie Besnard (15 August 1896 – 14 February 1980), also known as 'The Good Lady of Loudun', was an accused serial poisoner in the mid-20th century.

Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah, fully Abū ‘Ubaydah ‘Āmir ibn ‘Abdillāh ibn al-Jarāḥ (Arabic: أبو عبيدة عامر بن عبدالله بن الجراح‎‎; 583–639 CE), was one of companions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

Telegonus /təˈlɛɡənəs/ (Greek: Τηλέγονος, "born afar") is the name of three different characters in Greek mythology.

Maria Catherina Swanenburg (9 September 1839 in Leiden – 11 April 1915 in Gorinchem) was a Dutch serial killer, who murdered at least 27, and was suspected of killing more than 90 people.

Lowell Lee Andrews (September 21, 1940 – November 30, 1962) was a University of Kansas sophomore convicted of the murders of his parents and his sister on November 28, 1958, a crime for which he was later executed.

Mordred or Modred (/ˈmoʊdrɛd/; Welsh: Medraut, Medrod, etc.) is a character in the Arthurian legend, known as a notorious traitor who fought King Arthur at the Battle of Camlann, where he was killed and Arthur fatally wounded.

Ronald Joseph "Butch" DeFeo Jr.

John Parricida (German: Johann Parricida) or John the Parricide (see: Parricide), also called John of Swabia (Johann von Schwaben), (ca. 1290 – 13 December 1312/13) was the son of the Habsburg duke Rudolf II of Austria.

Julian the Hospitaller is a Roman Catholic saint.

Victor Licata (c. 1912 – December 4, 1950) was an American murderer who used an axe to kill his family in Ybor City, Tampa, Florida on October 16, 1933.

Jeffrey Russell "Jeff" Hall was a plumber in Riverside, California, and the regional leader of the National Socialist Movement.

John Kewish, Jr. (died 1 August 1872) was the last person executed by the Isle of Man.

Guy Martel is a French spree killer who killed seven people and wounded at least five others in several towns and villages in the departments Ille-et-Vilaine and Cotes-du-Nord on June 19, 1985, before he was arrested.

Joseph Lyle Menéndez (born January 10, 1968) and Erik Galen Menéndez (born November 27, 1970) are brothers who are known for their conviction in 1994, as a result of a much-publicized trial, for the shotgun murders of their wealthy parents, entertainment executive Jose Menéndez and his wife Mary "Kitty" Menéndez of Beverly Hills, California, in 1989.

Courtney Christine Schulhoff (born December 27, 1987 in Washington, D.C.) is an American female prisoner who was convicted in the bludgeoning death of her father in his Altamonte Springs, Florida apartment when she was 16 years old.

Minyedeippa (Burmese: မင်းရဲဒိဗ္ဗ, pronounced: [mɪ́ɴjɛ́ deiʔpa̰]; also spelled Minredeippa or Minyedaikpa; 1608–1629) was the seventh king of Toungoo dynasty of Burma.

Christopher Porco (born July 9, 1983) is a convicted murderer, currently imprisoned for killing his father and attempting to murder his mother with a fireman's axe.