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Parricide, Charles Patrick Ewing
Parricide, Charles Patrick Ewing
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Published as Chapter 10 in Clinical Assessment of Dangerousness: Empirical Contributions, Georges-Franck Pinard & Linda Pagani, eds.
As a boy, L. assaulted a hitchhiker and then urinated on him. As an adult, the 200-pound, alcohol and drug abuser routinely carried a pistol, stabbed and shot at his father, and terrorized his neighbors. For years, L. beat his wife. When she finally left him, he convinced a court to give him custody of their four children.
For the next four years, L. kept the children in an isolated trailer with no electricity, no phone, and no running water, allowing them out …