   matricide is the act of killing one's mother. == known or suspected matricides ==  * amastris, queen of heraclea, was drowned by her two sons in 284 bc. * cleopatra iii of egypt was assassinated in 101 bc by order of her son, ptolemy x, for her conspiracy. * ptolemy xi of egypt had his wife, berenice iii, murdered shortly after their wedding in 80 bc. she was also his stepmother, or perhaps his mother. * in ad 59, the roman emperor nero is said to have ordered the murder of his mother agrippina the younger, supposedly because she was conspiring against him. * mary ann lamb, the mentally ill sister of essayist charles lamb, killed their invalid mother during an episode of mania in 1796. * sidney harry fox, a british man, hanged in 1930 for killing his mother to gain from her insurance. * battle of okinawa, 1945: there are accounts in which okinawan civilians killed their mothers to prevent them from being captured, raped, tortured, and/or killed by the invading american forces. * the parkerâhulme murder case of 1954. this case was chronicled in the 1994 film heavenly creatures. * jack gilbert graham killed his mother along with 44 people by planting a dynamite bomb in his mother's suitcase, that was subsequently loaded aboard united airlines flight 629 in 1955. * charles whitman killed his mother and wife before going on his killing spree at the university of texas at austin that killed 14 people and wounded 31 others, as part of a shooting rampage from the observation deck of the university's 32-story administrative building on august 1, 1966. he was eventually shot and killed by austin police. * john emil list murdered his mother, wife and his three children on november 9, 1971, making list also guilty of filicide and uxoricide. he was a fugitive for 18 years. he was apprehended on june 1, 1989 after an episode of "america's most wanted" aired. on may 1, 1990 he was sentenced to 5 life terms in prison. * antony baekeland murdered his mother, barbara daly baekeland on november 11, 1972, at their luxurious london apartment. she had allegedly forced him to have sex with her, in order to "cure" his homosexuality. savage grace is a book and a movie based on this event. * serial killer edmund kemper beat h
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