General Material
This annual report is released to coincide with Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October. The study covers homicides involving one female murder victim and one male offender, and uses data from the Federal Bureau of InvestigationÍs unpublished Supplementary Homicide Report. The latest report offers information for 2011, the most recent year for which data is available.
- Nationwide, 1,707 females were murdered by males in single victim/single offender incidents in 2011.
- For homicides in which the victim to offender relationship could be identified, 94 percent of female victims were murdered by a male they knew.
- Sixteen times as many females were murdered by a male they knew (1,509 victims) than were killed by male strangers (92 victims).
- Among victims who knew their offenders, 61 percent of female homicide victims were wives or intimate acquaintances of their killers.
