JIST

Abstract

Murder-suicide, homicide-suicide, and dyadic death all refer to an incident where a homicide is committed followed by the perpetrator's suicide almost immediately or soon after the homicide. However, when there is occurrence of Homicidesuicide – foeticide aka Filicide- suicide - Foeticide then there is triad of event occurring in a single incidence. In present case, such triad of event occurred when there was female perpetrator, who killed her son and would be born child.

The author wants to highlight that in such triad of event the deaths occurring can be termed as Triadic death.