Killer Dads (37 page)

12
. Ibid., 308.

13
. Fossey, Dian, “Infanticide in Mountain Gorillas with Comparative Notes on Chimpanzees,” in
Infanticide
, eds. Glenn Hausfater and Sarah Blaffer Hrdy (New York: Aldine, 1984), 217.

14
. Goodall, Jane, “Life and Death at Gombe: Violence Never Seen before Erupts among Africa's Chimpanzees in the Continuing Chronicle of Their Behavior by a Pioneer Observer,”
National Geographic
(May 1979).

15
. Goodall, Jane,
Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey
(New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2000), 117.

16
. Ibid., 118.

17
. Hrdy,
Langurs of Abu
, 289–290.

18
. Ibid., 1.

19
. Hausfater, Glenn, and Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, eds.,
Infanticide: Comparative and Evolutionary Perspectives
(New Brunswick, NJ: Aldine Transaction, 1984/2008), xi.

20
. Hrdy,
Mother Nature
, 25.

21
. Ibid., 251.

22
. Ibid., 228.

23
. Ibid., 236.

24
. Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer,
Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding
(Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2009), 3.

25
. Ibid., 33–34.

26
. Ibid., 4.

CHAPTER 4: HOMO SAPS

1
. Daly, Martin, and Margo Wilson,
The Truth about Cinderella: A Darwinian View of Parental Love
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999), 10.

2
. Ibid., 16.

3
. Ibid., 38–39.

4
. Ibid., 1–5.

5
.
“Killer and Victims: Interview of Martin Daly and Margo Wilson on Homicide,”
Human Ethology Bulletin
11, no. 4 (December 1996): 4, 5.

6
. Daly and Wilson,
Truth about Cinderella
.

7
. Ibid., 38.

8
. Ibid., 7.

9
. Gould, Stephen Jay, “Biological Potentiality vs. Biological Determinism,” in
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
, 251–260 (New York: Norton, 1977), 257.

10
. Daly and Wilson,
Truth about Cinderella
, 24.

11
. Ibid., 27.

12
. Ibid., 28.

13
. Ibid., 30.

14
. Ibid., 32.

15
. Ibid., 31.

16
. Ibid., 63.

17
. Ibid., 66.

18
. Daly, Martin, and Margo Wilson, “Crime and Conflict: Homicide in Evolutionary Psychological Perspective,”
Crime and Justice
22 (1997): 51.

19
. Daly, Martin, and Margo Wilson,
Homicide
(New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1988), 7.

20
. Ibid., 2.

21
. Wilson, Margo, Martin Daly, and Antonietta Daniele, “Familicide: The Killing of Spouse and Children,”
Aggressive Behavior
21 (1995): 276.

22
. Daly, Martin, and Margo Wilson, “Male Sexual Proprietariness and Violence against Wives,”
Current Directions
5, no. 1 (Feb. 1996): 4.

23
. Ibid., 2.

24
. Ibid., 5.

25
. Ibid., 7.

26
. Wilson, Daly, and Daniele, “Familicide.”

27
. Ibid., 287.

28
. Ibid., 287–288.

29
. Ibid., 289.

CHAPTER 5: POSSESSION

1
. Unless otherwise noted in the text, all information in this chapter was obtained through several personal interviews with co-workers, clients, and friends of William Parente, along with police and court records and information from investigators that is available to the public and was widely reported in news reports.

CHAPTER 6: DEVASTATION

1
. Unless otherwise noted in the text, all information in this chapter was obtained through personal interviews with clients of William Parente, and from police and court records available to the public and widely reported in news reports.

2
.
In the Matter of the Petition of Jeffrey E. Deluca, Public Administrator of Nassau County, as Administrator of the Estate of William Parente
, Surrogate's Court of the State of New York, Nassau County, March 30, 2012.

3
.
Application of Joseph A. Mazzarella for Full Letters of Administration in the Estate of Betty Ann Parente, Stephanie Ann Parente, Catherine Ann Parente
, Surrogate's Court of the State of New York, Nassau County, December 21, 2009.

4
.
In the Matter of the Petition of Eric P. Milgrim, Public Administrator of Nassau County, as Temporary Administrator of the Estate of William M. Parente, Deceased
, Surrogate's Court of the State of New York, Nassau County, June 3, 2010.

5
.
Stipulation in the Matter of the Proceedings of Joseph A. Mazzarella, as Administrator of the Estate of Betty Ann Parente
;
In the Matter of the Proceedings of Eric P. Milgrim, Public Administrator of Nassau County, as Administrator of the Estate of William Michael Parente
;
Administration Proceeding, Estate of Stephanie Ann Parente and of Catherine Ann Parente
, Surrogate's Court of the State of New York, Nassau County, December 23, 2010, 10.

6
. Ibid., 19.

CHAPTER 7: DEATH BY THE NUMBERS

1
. Richard J. Gelles and Murray Arnold Straus,
Intimate Violence: The Causes and Consequences of Abuse in the American Family
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989), 51.

2
. Unless otherwise noted, information about the Christopher Foster case was gathered through police statements and records, phone interviews with friends, and several news reports.

3
.
The Millionaire and the Murder Mansion
, directed by Nick Poyntz, 2009.

4
.
Violence Policy Center, “American Roulette: Murder-Suicide in the United States,” 4th ed. (Washington, DC: Violence Policy Center, May 2012), 13.

5
. Violence Policy Center, “American Roulette: Murder-Suicide in the United States,” 3rd ed. (Washington, DC: Violence Policy Center, April 2008), 13.

6
. Violence Policy Center, “American Roulette,” 4th ed., 8.

7
. Ibid., 6.

8
. Ibid., 8.

9
. Ibid.

10
. Violence Policy Center, “American Roulette,” 3rd ed., 8.

11
. Violence Policy Center, “American Roulette,” 4th ed., 8.

12
. Websdale, Neil,
Familicidal Hearts: The Emotional Styles of 211 Killers
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), 259.

13
. Wood, Joanne N., et al., “Local Macroeconomic Trends and Hospital Admissions for Child Abuse, 2000–2009,”
Pediatrics
130, no. 2 (Aug. 2012): 358.

14
. Ibid., 360.

15
. US Department of Defense Casualty Status, March 25, 2013,
http://www.defense.gov/news/casualty.pdf
.

16
. UNICEF, “A League Table of Child Maltreatment Deaths in Rich Nations,”
Innocenti Report Card
5 (Florence, Italy: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Sept. 2003), 4.

17
. Ibid., 7.

18
. Ibid., 2.

19
. Ibid., 11.

20
. Children's Bureau, “Child Maltreatment 2011” (Washington, DC: Department of Health & Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Children's Bureau, 2012), 56.

21
. Ibid., 19.

22
. Ibid., 20.

23
. Ibid., 56–57.

24
. Ibid., 59.

25
. Zimmerman, Francie, and James A. Mercy, “A Better Start: Child Maltreatment Prevention as a Public Health Priority,”
Zero to Three
(May 2010): 5.

26
. Finkelhor, D., et al., “Violence, Abuse, and Crime Exposure in a National Sample of Children and Youth,”
Pediatrics
124, no. 5 (Oct. 2009): 1.

27
. Children's Bureau, “Child Maltreatment 2011,” 56.

28
. US Government Accountability Office, “Child Maltreatment: Strengthening National Data on Child Fatalities Could Aid in Prevention” (Washington DC: Report to the Chairman, Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, July 2011), cover findings.

29
. Ibid., 16.

30
. Ibid., 2.

31
.
Ibid., 21.

32
. Ibid., cover findings.

33
. Ibid., 13.

34
. Ibid., 25.

35
. Ibid., 31.

36
. Ibid., 34–35.

37
. Cooper, Alexia, and Erica L. Smith, “Homicide Trends in the United States, 1980–2008: Annual Rates for 2009 and 2010” (Washington, DC: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Nov. 2011), 20.

38
. Ibid., 21.

39
. Medina, Sheyla P., et al., “Tracking Child Abuse and Neglect: The Role of Multiple Data Sources in Improving Child Safety,”
Evidence to Action
(Fall 2012): 1.

CHAPTER 8: TRAIL OF TEARS

1
. Unless otherwise noted, all information about the following crimes was obtained from police and court records and police statements that are available to the public and were reported widely in the news.

2
. “Missing Child's Body Found in Dumpster,” WREG Memphis, July 3, 2012,
http://www.wreg.com/2012/07/03/missing-3-year-old-boy-found/
.

3
. “No Parent Should Ever Have to Say a Final Goodbye to a Young Child,” WNCT, July 13, 2012,
http://www.wnct.com/story/21013377/no-parent-should-ever-have-to-say-a-final-goodbye-to-a-young-child
.

4
. Quotes from experts and researchers here are all from personal interviews with the author.

5
. UNICEF, “Measuring Child Poverty: New League Tables of Child Poverty in the World's Rich Countries,”
Innocenti Report Card
10 (Florence, Italy: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2012), 10.

6
. Ibid., 3.

7
. Burstain, Jane, testimony before the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee of Ways and Means, US House of Representatives, June 12, 2011.

8
. Fang, Xiangming, et al., “The Economic Burden of Child Maltreatment in the United States and Implications for Prevention,”
Child Abuse and Neglect
36, no. 2 (Feb. 2012): 156.

9
. Zimmerman, Francie, and James A. Mercy, “A Better Start: Child Maltreatment Prevention as a Public Health Priority,”
Zero to Three
(May 2010): 5.

CHAPTER 9: CONTROL FREAK

1
. Nibley, Preston,
Brigham Young: The Man and His Work
(Salt Lake City: Deseret 1937), 119–23.

2
. All information in this chapter was gathered from police and court records available to the public and reported widely in the news, interviews with family and friends, and e-mails written by Susan.

CHAPTER 11: GONE

1
. All information in this chapter was obtained in interviews with family and friends of Susan Cox Powell, and from police and court records available to the public and widely reported in the news.

2
. “FBI Expert: Why Police Raided Josh Powell's Home,”
Today Show
, NBC, August 26, 2011.

3
. Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, Children's Administration Child Fatality Review, Charles Powell, Braden Powell, April 26–27 and June 8, 2012.

CHAPTER 12: THIS MODERN LIFE

1
. This narrative of the William Beadle family annihilation is based on accounts in newspaper articles and letters written at the time, a poem, and the last will and testament written by William Beadle in a collection from the Wethersfield Historical Society of Wethersfield, Connecticut, with excerpts quoted in Smart, James R.,
A Life of William Beadle
(self-published senior thesis, Princeton University, 1989) and the book by Mitchell, S. M.,
A Narrative of the Life of William Beadle
, 4th ed. (Greenfield, CT: 1805).

2
. Mitchell,
Narrative of the Life of William Beadle
, 6.

3
. Smart,
Life of William Beadle, 8–9.

4
. Mitchell,
Narrative of the Life of William Beadle
.

5
. Fitzgerald, N. K., “Towards and American Abraham: Multiple Parricide and the Rejection of Revelation in the Early National Period” (master's thesis, Brown University, 1971).

6
. “Fresh Advices from Our Correspondent,”
London Intelligencer
, October 14, 1755.

7
. Cohen, Daniel A., “Homicidal Compulsion and the Conditions of Freedom: The Social and Psychological Origins of Familicide in America's Early Republic,”
Journal of Social History
28, no. 4 (Summer 1995): 725.

8
. Websdale, Neil,
Familicidal Hearts: The Emotional Styles of 211 Killers
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), 26–27.

9
. Ibid., 33.

10
. Ibid., 44.

11
. Ibid., 21.

12
. Ibid., 139.

13
. Ibid., 154.

14
. Ibid., 155.

15
. Ibid., 176.

16
. Ibid., 177.

17
. Ibid., 176–177.

18
. List, J., with Austin Goodrich,
Collateral Damage: The John List Story
(New York: iUniverse Incorporated, 2006): 45–47.

19
. Ibid., 281.

CHAPTER 13: MASKED

1
. This account is based on police and court records and transcripts; interviews with investigators, lawyers, and Scott and Laci Peterson's friends; and several weeks covering Scott Peterson's murder trial for the
New York Daily News
.