Mass Murder by Deliberate Indifference

A female mass murder.

A case study of a 44-year-old woman who committed a mass murder is presented. Following a chronic course of psychotic deterioration, and a likely diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia that remained untreated, she returned to her workplace after 3 years from her termination and killed seven people and herself. Her history is reconstructed through investigation of primary and secondary source mater...

Mass murder: the Wagner case.

Capitol Hill Mass Murder Case

In the early morning of March 25, 2006, 28-year-old Kyle Huff shot eight young men and women, six of them fatally, at a rave after-party on East Republican Street in the Capitol Hill section of Seattle. The gunman, a transplant fromMontana, then committed suicide just as the police arrived on the scene. Because of the perpetrator’s suicide, there was no need for a detailed investigation leading...

Failed Power Plant Turns Into Mass Murder

Mitochondria are known as the powerhouse of the cell. For a high-energy–consuming organ, such as the heart, continuous ATP production via oxidative metabolism in the mitochondria is essential. Apart from ATP generation, mitochondria are also key to the regulation of cellular metabolism, calcium homeostasis, and reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation. Mitochondrial dysfunction has been strongl...

Mass Murder, Mental Illness, and Men

Although mass murder is a rare event in the United States—perhaps a dozen to a dozen and a half incidents a year in the recent decades—occurrences tend to overshadow the much greater number of other murders, because of the electrifying effect upon the public of so many lives being lost all at once. Much of the heightened frequency and greater death toll stems from the easier availability of sem...