NEW MEXICO RANKS 3RD IN THE NATION FOR STATES WITH THE HIGHEST RATES OF MEN MURDERING WOMEN. THE REPORT … TITLED “WHEN MEN MURDER WOMEN … LOOKED AT MURDERS COMMITTED IN 2013. TWENTY-ONE SUCH CASES HERE THAT YEAR INVOLVED MEN KILLING WOMEN, UNDERSCORING THE PROBLEM OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.
THAT’S BECAUSE IN CASES WHERE THE KILLER’S RELATIONSHIP WAS KNOWN OR ABLE TO BE IDENTIFIED, THE VICTIM EITHER KNEW THE KILLER OR WAS MARRIED TO OR IN A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM. MICHELLE FULLER WITH SAFE HOUSE TELLS CHANNEL 13 NEWS THAT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IS AN EPIDEMIC IN NEW MEXICO.
THE STATE WITH THE HIGHEST RATES OF MURDERS IN WHICH MEN KILLED WOMEN IS SOUTH CAROLINA.
