WOMEN KILLED BY PARTNERS/SPOUSE

According to FBI statistics, 30% of female murder victims in 1990, the last year for which statistics are available, were killed by their husbands or boyfriends. That is approximately 3000 women. (Caroline Knapp, "A Plague of Murders: Open Season on Women, The Boston Phoenix, August 1992)

In 1990, says the FBI, intimate enemies accounted for 30% of all women murder victims ("Doctors must join fight against domestic violence," USA Today, June 18, 1992, at 12-A)

According to the Uniform Crime Report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 30% of women killed in the United States die at the hands of a husband or boyfriend. In 1990, more than 800 women were killed by their husbands; 400 more were killed by their boyfriends. (Antonia C. Novello, "From the Surgeon General, U.S. Public Health Service, A Medical Response to Domestic Violence," Journal of the American Medial Association, June 17, 1992, p. 3132)

One-third of all female homicide victims are killed by husbands, ex-husbands, boyfriends or ex-boyfriends. (NCJA Justice Research, "States, Federal Government Increasing Focus on Violence Against Women," September/October 1990, p. 3)

More than twice as many women are killed by their husbands or boyfriends as are murdered by strangers. (Arthur Kellerman, "Men, Women and Murder," The Journal of Trauma, July 17, 1992, pp. 1-5)

In a study of females killed by intimate partners between 1980-1982, it was found that the majority of women killed were married (57.7%, n=2,415). Girlfriends were the next highest percentage (24.5%, n-1,041), followed by common-law wives *8%, n-332), ex-wives (4.89%, n-205) and friends (4.675, n-196). (Karen Stout, "Intimate Femicide: A National Demographic Overview," Violence Update, Vol. 1, No. 6, February 1991, p. 3)

More than 90 women were murdered every week in 1991 - 9 out of 10 were murdered by men. (Violence Against Women, A Majority Staff Report, Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 102nd Congress, October 1992, p. 2)

Of the 5,745 women murdered in 1991, 6 out of 10 were killed by someone they knew. Half were murdered by a spouse or someone with whom they had been intimate. ("When Violence Hits Home," Time, July 4, 1994)

Among all female victims in 1992, 29% were slain by boyfriends or husbands and 4% of male victims were slain by their wives or girlfriends. (Federal Bureau of Investigations, 1993)/