A father’s staggering loss

Chicago Tribune, 27 August 2007

Two weeks after his children and wife were killed in a Naperville fire, Anand Tiwari exists somewhere between the past, present

By Sara Olkon, Tribune staff reporter

For Anand Tiwari, time stopped on Aug. 11.

That Saturday afternoon, police would later tell him, his wife murdered their two young children and killed herself by igniting a fire that engulfed the three in flames inside the family’s Naperville home. (Full Story)
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Note by F4L: Apparently it does not happen very often that a mother kills her children and then herself.  More often it happens that the mother appears to pretend to have made an unsuccessful suicide attempt after she killed her children.  Still, I wonder how many such stories we never hear about because they hardly ever make it into the national wire services? The circumstances of that are described in the following article:

February 28, 2000, p. 36
More deadly than the male: Media hide the fact women are far likelier to kill their children than are men

by Walter H. Schneider and Candis Mclean

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