Killer Dads (41 page)

National Domestic Fatality Review,
238

National Geographic
,
53

National Institute of Health,
46
–
47

National Institute of Justice,
109
,
239

natural selection,
165

New York Daily News
,
10
,
12
–
13
,
174

New York Post
,
12
,
174

Northern Arizona University,
106
,
165

nuclear families,
168

Obaston House estate,
102

On the Road
(Kerouac),
186

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development,
121

Owings, Jovanna,
145

Page, Stephanie,
203

Paramore, Mason,
118
–
19

parent victims killed by children,
113

Parente, Betty Mazzarella,
9
,
77
–
88

Parente, Catherine,
9
,
77
–
88

Parente, Stephanie,
9
,
77
–
88

Parente, William “Bill,” 88

and Betty's breast cancer,
79

and death of mother,
80
–
81

described,
73
–
74

as investment advisor,
74
–
75

and murders of Betty, Catherine, and Stephanie,
87
–
88

positioning of family's bodies,
86

and psychic,
80
–
81

suicide of,
88

Parker, Amanda,
10
,
222

paternalism, American style,
209

paternity, males uncertainty about,
57
,
67

pathological liars,
201

penny stocks,
76

People
magazine,
176

“personhood” of children,
243

Peterson, Conner,
176
,
196

Peterson, Jackie,
177

Peterson, Laci

body found,
196

Christmas Eve 2002,
188
–
89

vanished when eight months pregnant,
174

Peterson, Lee,
177

Peterson, Scott

alibi contradictions,
192

courtroom demeanor,
176

heading for Mexico,
196

lying to Amber Frey,
181
–
86

sentenced to death,
196

as suspect in Laci's disappearance,
174

unhappy in life,
173

Petit, Michael,
10
,
10
7–
108
,
120
–
22
,
166
,
236

Pleistocene legacy,
58

PolicyLab of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia,
106
–
107
,
109
,
114

political correctness,
209

Ponzi scheme,
9
,
76
–
77
,
9
3–
94

possessions, viewing family members as,
106

postpartum depression,
176
,
232

post-traumatic stress disorder,
214

poverty, relative,
121

Powell, Alina,
155

Powell, Braden,
124

Powell, Charlie,
124
,
148
,
152
–
53

Powell, Josh

at birth of Charlie,
130

as control freak,
130

as dictatorial husband,
124

800-mile mystery trip,
147

inability to keep a job,
128

murder of Charlie and Braden,
158

as person of interest in Susan's murder,
152

psychosexual, polygraph, and penile plethysmograph tests,
154

suicide attempt,
128

supervised visits with sons,
155

threatened mother,
128
–
29

took sons camping in December,
146

Powell, Michael

suicide of,
160

Powell, Steven

charged with voyeurism and child pornography,
152

father of Josh,
124

“multiple images” of Susan,
149
–
51

pornography, obsession with,
128

strange comments about Susan,
149
–
51

Susan described as pedophile,
151

Powell, Susan Cox

angel memorial statue,
160

birth of Charlie,
130

disappearance of,
145

e-mails from,
132
,
133
–
38
,
139
–
42
,
143
–
44

fear of Josh,
124

Last Will and Testament,
148

making of her own will,
132

relationship with Josh deteriorating further,
142

Powell, Terrica,
128

protective custody,
19

“Protect Our Kids Act,” 238

psychology, evolutionary (“Ev Psych”),
62
–
63

psychopathic personalities,
199

psychopaths,
15

psychosis, alcohol-induced,
67

Quinn, Marianne,
9
,
78
–
84
,
89
–
90
,
9
9

rage,
15
,
67
,
70
,
105

Ramadan,
206

Ramsey, Aaron,
12

Ramsey, Jonathan,
12

rape,
207
–
209

of a child,
12

rats,
47

Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey
(Goodall),
53

recession, and child abuse,
106
–
107

Reckart, Laura,
227
–
28

recording devices,
208

“Rejecting Islamophobia: A Community Stand against Hate,” 219

“reproductive control” theory of violence,
68

“reproductive strategies” of langur monkeys,
48
–
50

rifles, custom-made,
102

Rikart, Sandy,
190

Rocha, Brent,
173
–
74

Rocha, Rose,
173

Rocha, Sharon

Christmas Eve 2002,
188
–
90

court testimony,
178
–
79

learns of Amber Frey,
191

relationship with Laci,
175
–
76

victim impact statement,
197
–
98

Said, Amina,
228

Said, Sarah,
228

Said, Yaser Abdel,
228

Salguero, Osman Irias,
12

Sandy Hook Elementary School,
11
,
11
5

Sarah (James's wife),
19
–
31
,
36

Schaffhausen, Aaron,
118

Schaffhausen, Amara,
118

Schaffhausen, Cecilia,
118

Schaffhausen, Sophie,
118

Schimel, Dorothy,
73
–
74
,
77
,
93

Schulter, Joanne,
9

Sergi, Ron,
27

sex abuse,
209

sexuality and conflict,
51
–
52

sexuality as a commodity,
224

sexual proprietariness,
165

“sexual selection” hypothesis,
56

sexual violence,
106

Shafia, Geeti,
229

Shafia, Hamed,
229

Shafia, Mohammad,
229

Shafia, Sahar,
229

Shafia, Zainab,
229

shaken baby syndrome,
111
,
117
,
118
,
120

Sheldon, Toni,
29

Shelswell, Clare,
9
,
19
–
31
,
66

Shelswell, Suzy,
26

Sibley, Shawn,
179
,
187

Sikh temple in Wisconsin, murders,
115

Singh, Avtar,
116

Singh, Hervander,
116

Skelton, Alexander,
169

Skelton, Andrew,
169

Skelton, John,
169

Skelton, Tanner,
169

skull, fracture,
12

“social autopsy,” 238

social-service agencies and child abuse,
113

Sociobiology
,
59

sociopathic personalities,
199

spousal violence,
230

Spurlock, Matthew,
193

spyware,
208

“stain patterns” of blood,
145
–
46

stalking,
212

Steinle, Roland,
227

stepchildren

and child abuse,
64
–
65

and domestic-violence tragedies,
66

Stoeckley, Helena,
200

Strindberg, August,
52

Submission
,
221

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS),
108

suicide, by throat cutting,
12

Susan Cox Powell Foundation,
160

Tammy (James's sister),
19
–
31
,
39
–
41

Third Lie
,
The
(Gelles),
235

Thompson, Emma,
12

Tollen, John,
86

traumatic brain injuries,
107

Truth about Cinderella: A Darwinian View of Parental Love
(Daly and Wilson),
59

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
242

United Cerebral Palsy Association,
79

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF),
108
,
121

United Nations human-rights treaty,
121

University of California in Riverside,
59

University of Minnesota,
160

University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy and Practice,
106

University of Washington,
124

USA Today
,
222
,
224

US Commission on International Religious Freedom,
222

US military budget,
13
–
14

uxoricides,
67
–
68
,
70

Van Gogh, Theo,
221

Van Gogh, Vincent,
221

vervet monkeys,
51
–
52

victim impact statement,
29
,
119
,
197
–
98
,
216

victim's rights advocates,
118
–
19

Villa, Brandon,
119

Village Voice
,
12

Villa-Ramirez, Jonathan M.,
119

violence

and economic stress,
14

in families with stepchildren,
60

and homicides,
61

and loss of power,
166

risk factors,
62

spousal,
230

Violence Policy Center,
105
,
239

Viviano, David,
214

Wasinski, Wendy,
9
,
205
,
209
–
17

Websdale, Neil,
10
,
10
6,
121
,
165
–
71
,
237
,
238

Weinstein, Elliot,
203

Why Do They Kill? Men Who Murder Their Intimate Partners
(Adams),
109

Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey Macdonald
,
A
(Morris),
200

Wilson, Edward O.,
59
,
62
–
63

Wilson, John,
118

Wilson, Margo,
9
–
10
,
59
–
71
,
165
,
208

Wood, Christopher,
90

Wood, Joanne,
107

Yahya, Tooba,
229

Yates, James,
164

Young, Abigail,
12

Young, Brigham,
123

Young, Lorenzo,
123