Far more men then women are arrested and convicted for murdering their spouse or significant other. But women also murder their spouses. Do you think they are more likely to get away with it? I think women who murder are far more cunning then men. They often use poison or some non violent (i.e. bloody) means of committing the crime. And when they are caught, their sentences are often far less than men receive for a similar crime. Sometimes this is warranted because of physical abuse from the husband, and sometimes not.
http://www.glennsacks.com/domestic_violence_a_2.htm :
Nor do husbands murder their wives significantly more than wives murder their husbands. A 1994 Department of Justice study analyzed 10,000 cases and found that women make up over 40 percent of those charged in familial murders. And because women who murder their husbands tend to use less detectable or traceable methods--such as poisoning (which are often ruled "heart attacks") and hiring others to do the killing (which usually aren't counted as "murders by wives" in official crime statistics), these murders are far less likely to be noticed than murders by men, which are usually committed with guns.
Nonetheless, I thought it would be interesting to list the females who have murdered their husband's or boyfriends:
1. Pamela Smart
2. Betty Broderick
3. Kristin Rossum
3. Clara Harris
4. Lynn Turner - twice! One her husband the other a boyfriend
5. Larissa Schuster
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