Trying to explain the unexplainable: In 4 days, 4 mass killings of 4 families in 4 states
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}America witnessed a chilling series of horrors over four bloody days in the past week — four mass killings involving four different families in four states. Criminologists say this tragic cluster of deaths is random. Yet domestic violence researcher Tricia Bent-Goodley notes that people still feel a need to make sense out of crimes that are this horrible.
Bent-Goodley says that each week, nine women are killed by an intimate partner. So she says these four killings are a reminder that home is not a safe place for everyone.
The killings began Saturday, and left 14 adults and seven children dead.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}University of Texas professor Alejandro del Carmen says it might seem as if deadly violence has increased because the Internet spreads vivid news globally in almost real time.