Important People Exam 2

Question 1

Toni Cato Riggs

Answer 1

• Main Motives in Partner Killing
• Personal Gain

Hired brother to kill husband(1991); staged armed robbery shooting; for insurance money from military; caught by undercover video confession served life in prison w/o parole

Question 2

Clara Harris

Answer 2

• Jealously and Obsession

Killed cheating husband by running him over with car

Question 3

James Colbert

Answer 3

• Maintaining Control

Strangled his wife and smothered his children after she file for a restraining order and started new relationship(1991)

• Clean crime scene tucked dead kids in bed

Question 4

Farah Fawcett

Answer 4

• Wives Who Kill

Burning Bed: Set abusive husband bed on fire while sleeping and turned herself in right after

Question 5

Michael P. Johnson

Answer 5

Patriarchal Terrorism and Common Couple Violence

Question 6

Donald Dutton

Answer 6

The Domestic Assault of Women

• abandonment Rage

Question 7

Lenore Walker

Answer 7

The Battered Woman

Question 8

Keith Kroker

Answer 8

bludgeoned wife, shot 3 kids in bed, set house on fire and then killed himself(2017)

• Family Annihilation

Question 9

Mark Castillo

Answer 9

Drowned his three young children at Marriot Inner Harbor over custody battle w/ divorcing wife; attempted suicide(2008)