The victim-offender relationship
differed substantially between female
and male murderers. Of the 60,000
murders committed by women between
1976 and 1997 just over 60% were
against an intimate or family member;
among the 400,000 murders committed
by men over the same period, 20%
were against family members or
intimates.
Page 4 of Women Offenders December 1999, NCJ 175688
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/wo.pdf
While true that men commit murder more often, women, by over 40%, choose a family member of intimate when murdering. We have a double standard based on false information. Men tend to kill strangers, women tend to kill those they know.
As a side note, her arrest photo has been released. Her face shows no indication of having received a beating. She has not been taken to a hospital in any news report I've seen. If she had been beat she would have been transfered to a hospital for medical treatment as per law enforcement rules.
We can now through out the speculation that she murdered her spouse because she was being beat. Don't you think?
Not necessarily. If I was going to beat my wife, I might very well want to avoid bruising her in visible areas, i.e., nothing to stop me from punching her in the gut or kidneys instead. Her lack of a black eye does not mean she hasn't been physically abused.
On the other hand, I think this rush to condemn the victim is pretty bad. For all we know, she had a chemical imbalance and killed the guy for no rational reason.
I think he just didn't put the toilet seat back down one too many times. My wife tells me all the time how annoying that is. Sounds like he got what's comin'!