Bluebeard - a fictional wife-killer
Suicide is a criminal offense when a man kills his official wife, that is, a woman who is officially married to him.
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Not every murder is based on malicious motives. The famous writer William Burroughs killed his wife Joan Wollmer by accident [1] . Another famous writer Derek Humphrey poisoned his wife with drugs at her request [2] . The French philosopher Louis Altusser strangled his wife; the motives of this act cause controversy and various interpretations.
Herbert Armstrong and Walter Bolton were hanged for the murders of their wives, but currently their guilt in the murder is questionable and disputed.
Famous Women Killers
Carlisle Harris poisoned his wife
- Pietro Medici
- William Henry Bury
- Frederick Dimming
- Harvey Crippen
- Jack alderman
- Robert Birenbaum
- Stefan Svitek (his wife was pregnant at the time of the murder )
- Scott Peterson (his wife was pregnant at the time of the murder )
- Drew Peterson
- Pavel Selyun
Hans Fallad during a quarrel shot his wife, but did not kill her.
In popular culture
- The Story of Edgar Allan Poe "The Black Cat " ( 1843 )
- The story of Oscar Wilde "The Canterville Ghost " ( 1887 ) ( film adaptation of the same name in 1970 )
- Agatha Christie 's novel "The Mysterious Event in Stiles " ( 1920 )
- Rex Stout's novel Fer-de-Lans ( 1934 ).
- Agatha Christie's novel Murder in Mesopotamia ( 1936 )
- Agatha Christie's novel Death on the Nile ( 1937 )
- Agatha Christie ’s novel “ With One Finger ” ( 1942 )
- X / f . “ Window to the Courtyard ” ( 1954 )
- X / f . The Serrated Blade ( 1985 )
- X / f . The Trap for a Lonely Man ( 1990 )
- X / f . The Fracture ( 2007 )
Quotes
Hercule Poirot :
| A person thinks with stereotypes, and no matter whether he lives within the framework of the law or transgresses it, he acts according to his character. No matter how many crimes he commits, all of them will resemble each other like two drops. A classic case - a certain Englishman gets rid of his wives, drowning them in the bath. If he had invented something else, he probably would have managed to escape punishment to this day. But one of the universal laws of human psychology weighs on him: the criminal is sure that once he got away with it, he will succeed both the second time and the third. As a result, he pays for the triviality of his thinking.Agatha Christie . Golf Killing |
See also
- The Assassination of Helle Crafts
- The Assassination Of Janet March
Notes
- ↑ On September 6, 1951, in the midst of one of the many parties, Burroughs suddenly announced to the guests that he would shoot a gun “in the style of William Tell ”. Joan immediately put a glass on her head. William, while in a state of permanent strong intoxication, made a fatal shot and killed her without hitting the target
- ↑ At one time, he helped his wife, Jean ( English Jean Humphry ), to voluntarily die with an overdose of medications. For several years, she suffered from pain and an incurable disease: breast cancer in the last stage. On March 29, 1975, Gene asked for help to stop the torment and Derek Humphrey gave her a lethal dose of sleeping pills dissolved in a cup of coffee. She fell into a coma and died a few minutes later, he was next to her