Scary! A list of shocking killing cases by close relatives

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You need to be weary when in company of a kin! Just Kidding.

It is a rare case to hear of a parent shooting dead their children.

With the case under investigation by Kenya detectives after a profiled city lawyer Assa Nyakundi shot his son Joseph, 29, dead in unclear circumstances on Sunday 17th March, 2018, it has emerged that this barbaric act is spread all over the globe.

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Several cases have been reported in worlds history.

Daily Active has listed here-under some very mysterious cases that involved relatives in cold blood deaths.

  1. Marvin Gaye

Marvin Gaye was an American musician who gained worldwide fame for his work with Motown Records.

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Marvin Gaye

He was fatally shot by his father, Marvin Gay Sr., on April 1, 1984, at their house in of Los Angeles, California.

Marvin Gay, Sr. upon his arrest in the killing of his celebrated son.

Marvin Sr. was a pastor with the Washington, DC House of God, a congregation that designated itself a “Hebrew Pentecostal movement”.

The tenets of their faith was a strict apostolic interpretation of the Bible’s Old and New Testaments. Marvin Sr. adhered to the church’s doctrines which included the prohibition of television and the listening of any music outside of gospel.

Along with being a preacher, Marvin Gay Sr. was an unabashed despot. On marrying Marvin Jr.’s mother, he prevented her from seeing her son from a previous marriage.

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As for their own children, Marvin Gay Sr. physically abused and psychologically intimidated all of them.

On the evening of April 1, 1984 (one day before Marvin Gaye would have celebrated his 45th birthday) he was visiting the Los Angeles home he had purchased for his parents.

Marvin Sr., in typical fashion for creating hostility, accused his son of stealing an insurance policy. A heated argument broke out. At one point the son shoved his father.

The father stormed off to his bedroom. It was here he kept the pistol bought for the family’s protection. Marvin Sr. got the gun, carried it to where his son stood and fired.

2. Jude Mirra

Pharmaceuticals executive Gigi Jordan on trial for the death of her young son
New York socialite Gigi Jordan

In 2014, New York socialite Gigi Jordan stood trial in the poisoning death of her autistic son. Eight-year old Jude Mirra had been given a deadly cocktail of crushed medications and alcohol in an upscale Manhattan suite on the night of Feb. 4, 2010.

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Jordan, a former pharmaceuticals executive, claimed that she had killed her son in order to prevent his father from obtaining custody.

According to Jordan the father had previously sexually tortured the boy. She also referred to the poisoning as a “mercy killing”, and further insisted police had thwarted her plans to commit suicide once Jude was dead.

Evidence during the proceedings showed that while little Jude lay dying, Jordan sat next to him talking on the phone with her financial adviser. During that call Jordan ordered a transfer of $125, 000 from her son’s trust fund into her own account.

Neither jury nor judge believed Jordan’s claim of mercy killing. She was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to 18 years in prison.

3. Lama al-Ghamdi

Islamist preacher Fayhan al-Ghamdi raped, tortured and murdered his 5-year old daughter, Lama.

In 2013 Islamic preacher and television personality Fayhan al-Ghamdi was found guilty in Saudi Arabia for the rape, torture and murder of his five-year old daughter.

In addition to being repeatedly raped little Lama al-Ghamdi suffered a broken back, a crushed skull and mutilation of her private parts. She lingered in a coma for several months before dying.

He was given a sentence of eight years in prison and 600 lashes. After only a few months incarceration a Saudi judge granted him release after the preacher promised to pay blood money (an Islamic form of financial restitution) to Lama’s mother (his ex-wife).

It is of grim interest to note that in Saudi Arabia a man cannot be executed for killing his children or wife.

4. Actor Phil Hartman

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Actor Phil Hartman: May 28, 1998

Cocaine use and alcohol reportedly contributed to Brynn Hartman’s decision to shoot her husband, actor Phil Hartman, at point-blank range with his own Smith & Wesson .38 as he slept in the bed they shared in their home in May 28, 1998 .

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Smith & Wesson .38

She shot him twice in the head and once on his side.

5. Bonnie Lee Bakley

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Bonnie Lee Bakley: May 4, 2001

Robert Blake — star of Truman Capote’s 1967 film In Cold Blood, and the 1970’s show Baretta — became a household name again after he was charged with murdering his wife of one year, Bonnie Lee Bakley.

On May 4, 2001, the couple had dinner at a restaurant, and upon leaving the restaurant, Blake claimed to have realized that he left his revolver in the restaurant and returned to retrieve it.

When he came back to the car, he found his wife dead with a gunshot wound to her head.

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