familicide

Noun

familicide (countable and uncountable, plural familicides)

1. The murder of an entire family by a family member.
   • Because of the familicide that wiped out his entire family, he will be charged with six counts of murder.
   • Familicide is the murder of family members by another family member. In other words, familicide is a multiple-victim homicide in which the killer's spouse or partner and one or more children are killed. Although familicide is relatively rare, it is nevertheless the most common form of mass killing.2014, Albert Lee Strickland, “Familicide”, in Michael John Brennan, editor, The A–Z of Death and Dying: Social, Medical, and Cultural Aspects, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood Publishing Group...
2. The perpetrator of a familicide.
   • The popular professional wrestler became the most notorious familicide of 2007.
   • There has also been some recent work focused on diagnostic correlates in aggressive individuals, including a familicide.1998, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Newsletter, volume 23, number 3, page 10