familicide

Plural: familicides

Noun

• The murder of an entire family by a family member.
• The perpetrator of a familicide.

Examples

• Because of the familicide that wiped out his entire family, he will be charged with six counts of murder.
• The popular professional wrestler became the most notorious familicide of 2007.

Related Words

altruistic filicide, family annihilator, fratricide, homicide, infanticide, parricide, sororicide, suicide, uxoricide