About this episode
We tend to think of crimes of passion as occurring between lovers married couples or participants in a love triangle – willing or otherwise. But passionate hatred isn’t limited to romantic or amorous relationships. After all Cain and Abel were brothers and the murder of Abel is recorded in the earliest books of the Christian Bible. The terms fratricide patricide and matricide exist in common language for a reason with origins so old the very words are written in Latin.
About this episode
We tend to think of crimes of passion as occurring between lovers married couples or participants in a love triangle – willing or otherwise. But passionate hatred isn’t limited to romantic or amorous relationships. After all Cain and Abel were brothers and the murder of Abel is recorded in the earliest books of the Christian Bible. The terms fratricide patricide and matricide exist in common language for a reason with origins so old the very words are written in Latin.