Anyone remember any cases of that happening?
PPD refers to harming the kids, not the spouse, I believe. The only term I've ever heard for killing a spouse is "murder."
post partum depression is general broken into 3 categories (or so it was last time i checked several years ago). They are:
PP Blues- feeling sad for up to 2 months
pp Depression- deep depression lasting up to a year or more
pp Psychosis- just like it sounds. woman has psychotic symptoms and could do something psycho.
In most of these cases the victim is the baby, but psycho is psycho and who's to say the husband couldn't be the victim.
I'm not condoning this. I don't even think that any type of insanity is a defense for murder.
I'm beginning to wonder if there has been a new drug to treat post partum depression that may have serious consequences.
However, if having at least one daughter, how easy would it be to kill a husband and then claim that there was sexual abuse of the daughter/daughters?
Needless to say, I feel for the family as they see their son's reputation destroyed as well as his life taken.
If true, no problem, but we only have one side of the story and if you are willing to commit murder, you would be willing to lie to cover it up.
"Isn't the murder of a husband unusual as a result of postpartum depression? I can't remember a single well-known case in which a husband was the victim."
I'm not sure if this particular case is PPD or not, but I know of a (not well-known) case where the husband was killed. My aunt killed her husband and 6 year old daughter and herself as a result of PPD. She did not kill the 3 month old child (my cousin).
Sometimes husbands are killed, too, when PPD is the diagnosis.