We will be covering two separate cases about daughters who kill this week. First, when Reid and Miriam Beck’s son, Justin, visits their home on January 17, 2023, because he hadn’t talked to his parents in a few days, his sister, Verity, who is also living in the house, tells him things have “been bad.” Justin can see that when he notices what looks like a body covered with a sheet and a chainsaw nearby. Second, local villagers in Bawan Kheri, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, heard crying and pleading late in the evening of April 15, 2008. After making their way to the home, they noticed the patriarch of the family deceased and on the floor. Police would later find six more family members, including a 10-month-old boy, all dead.

Sources for Verity Beck:

https://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/mental-health-brief-psychotic-disorder

https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/verity-beck-insanity-defense-murder-parents/

https://www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio/news/local/prosecutors-abington-woman-killed-parents-after-stealing

https://www.inquirer.com/crime/verity-beck-murder-abington-theft-montgomery-county-20231201.html

https://archphila.org/statement-regarding-ms-verity-a-beck/

https://www.inquirer.com/news/verity-beck-jenkintown-charged-murder-dismembering-reid-miriam-20230623.html

Sources for Shabnam Ali:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/24/india/india-shabnam-execution-intl-dst-hnk/index.html

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/the-shabnam-that-i-knew-was-very-different/article33949536.ece

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/who-is-shabnam-ali-first-woman-in-india-to-be-hanged-till-death/articleshow/81081970.cms

https://jlrjs.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/78.-Pratishtha-Singh-1.pdf

https://news.abplive.com/crime/amroha-uttar-pradesh-murder-crime-case-love-betrayal-haunting-tale-shabnam-saleem-1609779

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/24/india/india-shabnam-execution-intl-dst-hnk/index.html

https://www.news18.com/news/opinion/shabnam-ali-death-sentence-rarest-of-rare-case-or-was-there-a-chance-for-reform-3474116.html