Matricide

Matricide is the act of killing one's mother. As for any type of unlawful killing, motives can vary a great deal.

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• In AD 59, the Roman Emperor Nero is said to have ordered the murder of his mother Agrippina the younger, supposedly because she was conspiring against him.
• The Parker-Hulme murder case of 1954. This case was chronicled in the film Heavenly Creatures.
• Serial killer Edmund Kemper beat his mother to death in 1973, along with one of his mother's friends before turning himself in to the police. He had previously committed half-a-dozen sex-murders. Kemper had been psychologically abused by his domineering mother in his youth.
• Luke Woodham, Mississippi resident who killed his mother in June of 1997, and currently serving a life sentence at the Mississippi State Penitentiary.

Killing: Killing is a family name and the name of several things....

Motive: :For other meanings of motive see motive (algebraic geometry), base motive and (alternate spelling of) motif (music)....