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* An episode of ''[[CSI: Miami]]'' had a guy who did this and then claimed post-partum depression; that is, he claimed his ''wife'' had been suffering post-partum depression in the weeks leading up to the slaughter. Only, she hadn't.
* Occurred (naturally) on ''[[Law and Order SVU]]'': The wife seemed to be unstable; later, the detectives (who had just been to the house that day) find everyone dead, save the husband who was only grazed. Elliot is sympathetic, only to learn from the Crime Scene Unit that the only way the husband could've been injured is if he was aiming the gun at himself.
* ''[[Supernatural]]'' has a particular kind of ghost called a "Woman in White" that results from a woman killing her children and then committing suicide. The idea seems to have come from South American legends of [
** Supernatural loves this trope. It appears in an episode in which a house is haunted by the ghost of a farmer who murdered his family so they wouldn't starve, and pops up again with the father in a haunted family portrait who killed his family, and now murders whoever owns the picture. {{spoiler|It's subverted both times. The farmer ghost isn't real (long story), and it was the adopted daughter that killed everyone and then framed the father.}}
* In the series finale of ''[[The Shield]]'', {{spoiler|Shane's last play to keep his pregnant wife out of jail has failed, and they're faced with the prospect of having their children go into the foster care system. Seeing no other way out, he slips fatal doses of painkillers to his wife and son, and then simply waits for the cops. When they break down his door, he puts a bullet in his head}}.
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* Jean-Claude Romand: a French drop-out from medical school, managed to make everyone in his family believe that he was a doctor working for the World Health Organization. The biggest irony is that he was knowledgeable enough in medicine so that genuine doctors would not realize that he was an impostor when they spoke to him, making you wonder why he just did not just [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check|pass his exams and become what he claimed he was]]. He killed his entire family when he was about to be exposed.
* Cambodian immigrant Chhouy Harm, who had been struggling with schizophrenia and depression, killed her son in law and two of her granddaughters and injured her daughter in their West Seattle home, before taking her own life.
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* The Celts used to do this if they lost a battle. The father would escape from the battlefield, come home, murder his wife and children before killing himself to prevent his family from being captured by the enemy.
* In 2001, Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal went berserk at a palace party, killing nine other royals (including his parents, the King and Queen, and two siblings) and wounding five more. He shot himself in the head, but survived three days in a coma, during which Nepal's constitution mandated that he be declared King, regardless of his invocation of this trope.
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