Uxoricide

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Uxoricide is the murder of one's wife or girlfriend. It can refer to the act itself or the person who carries it out. The killing of a husband is called mariticide.

In the US in 2007, female victims made up 70%.[1]

FBI data from the mid-1970s to mid-1980s found that for every 100 husbands who killed their wives in the United States, about 75 women killed their husbands.[2] However, wives were more likely to kill their husbands than vice-versa in some US cities including Chicago, Detroit and Houston.<ref>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1745-9125.1992.tb01102.x<

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