Jamie Balint stabbed his mother 70 times with scissors and a vegetable peeler in 2003. Michael Rizer is accused of killing his mom with a shotgun blast to the face in 2004. And William Marrufo hacked ...

Kathleen M. Heide, PhD is professor of criminology at the University of South Florida, Tampa. She has published two widely acclaimed books on juvenile homicide, "Why Kids Kill Parents: Child Abuse and ...

While the crime may be all but unimaginable, matricide does happen. Children kill their mothers. And in South Florida, it happens with surprising frequency. Dee Jony Etienne, 30, was arrested on a ...

ORANGE >> Killing one’s mother is a crime so rare that criminologists haven’t studied it much. But in the town’s last two homicides, sons were charged with just that — matricide. One suspect was ...

NEW YORK (CBS) In the early hours of June 5, 2005, Jennifer Jackson, 39, was stabbed more than 50 times in her Memphis, Tenn., home. Her daughter Noura, 18 at the time, was convicted of murder four ...