Abstract
Poisoning murders can be classified into a number of groupings, depending on the motive for homicide. There can be a suicidally motivated parent who wishes to take the children with him or her. A good example of this type of killing is the case of Johanna Maria Magdalena (“Magda”) Goebbels and her husband, Joseph (Third Reich propaganda minister), who, in 1945, used cyanide to murder their six children in Hitler’s Berlin bunker, as the Allied forces approached and the end of the Third Reich was near. Another example is the case of the parents at “Jonestown,” Guyana who participated in the mass suicide there.
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(2007). Victims. In: Criminal Poisoning. Forensic Science and Medicine. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-256-4_4
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