Incidents of Mother-Child, Murder-Suicide Are Not Uncommon, Experts Say

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Cheryl Meyer, professor of psychology at Wright State University in Ohio, who co-wrote two books on maternal filicide, said that “in very many instances,” like in these two cases, mothers decide to take their own lives and, seeing their children as an extension of themselves, attempt to kill them as well.

“It fits the whole idea, ‘I can’t leave these children behind,’” said Meyer, describing what mothers who killed their children told her. “’No one can raise them like I can raise them.’”

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