List of rampage killers (familicides in Oceania and Maritime Southeast Asia) explained

This is a list of mass or spree killers in Oceania and Maritime Southeast Asia that committed familicides. A mass murderer is typically defined as someone who kills three or more people in one incident, with no "cooling off" period, not including themselves.[1] [2] A mass murder typically occurs in a single location where one or more persons kill several others.[3] [4] [5]

The victims must have been majority the relatives of the perpetrator to be considered a familicide.

This list does not include serial killers, members of democidal governments, or major political figures who orchestrated such actions.

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Rampage killers

PerpetratorDateYearLocationCountryKilledInjuredWAdditional NotesRef.
1. Andangan* 21 Oct. 1921 Philippines M Committed suicide [6]
2. Bartholomew, Clifford Cecil, 40* 6 Sept. 1971 Australia F Sentenced to 20 years in prison [7]
3. Gaeta, Gregorio, 27 Oct. 1952 Philippines Arrested [8]
4. Thaiday, Raina Mersane Ina, 34 18–19 Dec. 2014 Australia M Found mentally unfit to stand trial
5. Ratima, Raymond Wahia, 25 26 June 1992 New Zealand M Sentenced to life imprisonment
Terminated a pregnancy 		[9]
6. Ngah Ghafur 14 Dec. 1898 Malaysia MA Sentenced to death and executed [10]
7. Langobon, Jerry, 30* 18 Jan. 2002 Philippines M Arrested [11]
8. Pagkay, Gardo, 25* 22 July 1968 Philippines M Committed suicide [12]
9. Imam Mamat, 40 11/13 Feb. 1891 Malaysia M Killed
Terminated two pregnancies 		[13]
10. Yang Tai Chong, 21* 6/7 March 1966 Singapore M Found not guilty by reason of insanity [14]
11. Ong Kok, 34* 11 Sept. 1930 Singapore M Committed suicide [15]
12. Angeles, Vicente, 31* 19 May 1957 Philippines F Committed suicide [16]
13. Sornsung, Sucheep, 41
(สุชีพ ศรสังข์) 		1 Jan. 2019 Thailand F Committed suicide [17]
14. Thyer, Joseph, 44* 11 Oct. 1896 Australia M Committed suicide [18]
15. Glover, Catherine Mary, 34* 1 March 1898 Australia M Committed suicide [19]
16. Baxter, James Reid, 43* 8 April 1908 New Zealand M Committed suicide [20]
17. Archer, Andrew Thomas Edgar, 49* 26 Feb. 1929 Australia MA Committed suicide [21]
18. Davies, Roderick A., 36* 21 Aug. 1931 Australia F Committed suicide [22]
19. Hall, Frederick Charles, 48* 2 July 1948 Australia F Sentenced to death [23]
20. Armanasco, Raymond, 40* 12 Oct. 1950 Australia M Sentenced to death [24]
21. Darnley, Joyce* 5/6 May 1964 Sydney Australia P Committed suicide [25]
22. Unknown, 30* 24 Dec. 1966 Santa Cruz Philippines M Arrested [26]
23. Schlaepfer, Brian, 64* 20 May 1992 New Zealand FM Committed suicide [27]
24. Ram Chandar, 34* 8 Jan. 1994 Fiji M Sentenced to 120 years in prison [28]
25. May, Peter, 32* 25 Jan. 1996 Australia F Committed suicide [29]
26. Rivas Roldan, Errol, 27* 25 Feb. 2012 Philippines M Arrested [30]
27. Catoy, Pepito, 32* 8 April 2012 Philippines M Arrested [31]
28. Miles, Peter, 61* 11 May 2018 AustraliaF Committed suicide [32]

Abbreviations and footnotes

* – Marks cases where all the victims were relatives of the perpetrator

W – A basic description of the weapons used in the murders

F – Firearms and other ranged weapons, especially rifles and handguns, but also bows and crossbows, grenade launchers, flamethrowers, or slingshots

M – Melee weapons, like knives, swords, spears, machetes, axes, clubs, rods, stones, or bare hands

O – Any other weapons, such as bombs, hand grenades, Molotov cocktails, poison and poisonous gas, as well as vehicle and arson attacks

A – indicates that an arson attack was the only other weapon used

V – indicates that a vehicle was the only other weapon used

E – indicates that explosives of any sort were the only other weapon used

P – indicates that an anaesthetising or deadly substance of any kind was the only other weapon used (includes poisonous gas)

Notes and References

  1. Book: Duwe, Grant . Mass Murder in the United States . McFarland & Company . 2007 . 978-0-7864-3150-2 . Jefferson, NC . 15.
  2. Book: Aggrawal, A. . Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine . Elsevier Academic Press . 2005 . 978-0-12-547970-7 . Payne-James JJ . 3 . Mass Murder . Anil Aggrawal . March 17, 2016 . Byard RW . Corey TS . Henderson C . https://web.archive.org/web/20160325231428/http://www.anilaggrawal.com/ij/sundry/news_and_notes/eflm_2005/216_mass%20murder.pdf . March 25, 2016 . dead.
  3. Web site: 2005 . Serial Murder – Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives for Investigators . March 17, 2016 . Federal Bureau of Investigation . PDF.
  4. Mass Murder with Firearms: Incidents and Victims, 1999–2013 . Krouse . William J. . Richardson . Daniel J. . July 30, 2015 . . 26.
  5. Booty . Marisa . O’Dwyer . Jayne . Webster . Daniel . McCourt . Alex . Crifasi . Cassandra . 2019 . Describing a "mass shooting": the role of databases in understanding burden . Injury Epidemiology . 6 . 47 . 47 . 10.1186/s40621-019-0226-7 . 6889601 . 31828004 . free.
  6. https://web.archive.org/web/20121026145149/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/190923522.html?dids=190923522:190923522&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=OCT+22,+1921&author=&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=KILLS+11+AND+ENDS+OWN+LIFE&pqatl=google Moro Runs Amuck With Bolo Among Members of His Family
  7. 40-year-old meatworks employee Clifford C. Bartholomew shot his wife Heather, their seven children, as well as his wife's sister and her son with a .22-caliber rifle in their dairy farm at Hope Forest, about 35 miles south of Adelaide.
    Source: Father held in butchery: 10 murdered, Press-Telegram (7 September 1971)
    – The Snowtown Murders – A Familiar Horror
    – Father charged after 10 killed, The Age (7 September 1971)
  8. http://kranten.kb.nl/view/article/id/ddd%3A010677004%3Ampeg21%3Ap001%3Aa0012 Waanzinnige doodt acht familieleden
  9. http://www.crime.co.nz/c-files.aspx?ID=19 Raymond Wahia Ratima
  10. http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article/straitstimes18981227.2.65.aspx Amok in Perak
  11. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=31o1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=kiUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=527,19801417&dq= Man hacks dead wife, 3 children
  12. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BtAVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YxEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5322,4357247&dq= Kills family, self
  13. Kua, E. H. & Sulaimi Mohd S.: Amok – From the Writings of Sir Frank Swettenham; Singapore Medical Journal (Vol. 40/1999)
    – AMOK! AMOK!, The Straits Times (5 July 1927)
    – Part IV, Straits Times Weekly Issue (12 September 1893)
  14. http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19660308.2.3.aspx Son No. 1 charged with murder of six in family
  15. http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article/singfreepressb19300917.2.60.aspx Ghastly Tragedy at Tampenis
  16. Amok slays six, The Straits Times (21 May 1957)
  17. https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1065600/thailand-shooting-latest-dead-new-years-eve-attack-mass-shooting-news-phato-district Mass shooting HORROR in Thailand as man GUNS DOWN 7 people
  18. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3100802 A terrible tragedy – A sheep farmer murders his wife and five children
  19. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3196297 A Terrible Tragedy – A mother murders six children
  20. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10653939 Ghastly Tragedy – Madman attacks his family
  21. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article998295 Family perish in fire – Murder arson, and suicide
  22. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MvgQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3pEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7096,1691265&dq= Family tragedy
  23. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2753865 Demented father shoots 6 children
  24. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9v8ZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Bg4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=3847,5787582&dq= Mother and five children are slain
  25. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8AtiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TuYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4877,2141739&dq= Gas kills family of seven
  26. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=deJUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bjwNAAAAIBAJ&pg=3126,6343575&dq= Farmer kills six
  27. http://www.crime.co.nz/c-files.aspx?ID=10 The Schlaepfer Family Massacre
  28. Six life terms, The Straits Times (2 May 1995)
    – All those painful memories, Fiji Times (7 September 2008)
  29. https://web.archive.org/web/20121105125013/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-61255375.html Brits in horror
  30. http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/regions/02/25/12/deranged-man-kills-4-relatives-aklan Deranged man kills 5 relatives in Aklan
  31. http://beta.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/regions/04/12/12/man-kills-wife-5-kids Man kills wife, 5 kids
  32. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/05/13/father-of-children-killed-in-australia-mass-shooting-says-their-grandfather-planned-the-attack/ Father of children killed in Australia mass shooting says their grandfather planned the attack

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