New details emerge after ‘evil’ West Virginia mum Oreanna Myers kills five children — (7 News)Saturday, January 30th, 2021SSRI Ed note: Openly suicidal woman "battling depression" kills 5 kids, sets house on fire, kills herself while partner away. No real motive, witchcraft mentioned.
Berkshire DA releases documents revealing possible motive in grisly murder-suicide — (The Berkshire Edge)Wednesday, February 12th, 2020SSRI Ed note: Man treated at psychiatric facility, wife believes his opioid addiction a side effect of other medication, drinks, kills wife, three kids, then himself.
Man gets 3 years in prison for assault, EH apartment arson — (The Journal Inquirer)Friday, September 15th, 2017SSRI Ed note: Man being "treated" for depression, bi-polar, PTSD assaults hospital worker, sets apartment on fire, gets 3 yr jail term even though mental illness blamed.
Tulsa Police: Woman Tries To Kill Her 2 Kids, Calls Them Cannibals — (News9 Oklahoma)Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016SSRI Ed note: Woman in withdrawal from antidepressant decides her children are cannibals, tries to burn them to death in their apartment. They are rescued, she is charged.
Accountant who fled to Appalachian Trail pleads guilty to wire fraud in Ohio embezzling case — (Access WDUN.com)Friday, October 23rd, 2015SSRI Ed note: Man embezzles millions, disappears.
Southampton mother pleads guilty to killing son, 5, in car blaze, court hears — (Hampshire Chronicle)Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015SSRI Ed note: Mom on Zoloft acts bizarre, goes missing, attempts murder-suicide by burning her 5-yr-old son and herself in a car. Survives, pleads guilty, committed.
Coroner’s probe: Why did Dunedin father Edward Livingstone kill his children? — (OTAGO DAILY TIMES)Tuesday, April 21st, 2015SSRI Ed note: Man on Celexa, Lexapro & sleep aid has strange dreams, assaults wife, is psychotic, knows meds are cause, stops them, kills family and self. Meds not blamed.
Police: Arson suspect upset he had to move out — (The Columbian)Monday, June 16th, 2014
Sub arsonist wanted to leave work early — (Portland Press Herald)Friday, November 9th, 2012
Cops decided to press attempted arson charges — (bluelight.org)Friday, August 3rd, 2012
Police charge fire victim Kenji Suda’s wife Sakura with murder — (News.com.au)Thursday, December 29th, 2011SSRI Ed note: Woman on Pristiq for 2 weeks murders her husband, attempts suicide, by setting a fire. He burns to death, she escapes.
Report blames ‘complacency’ in Minkler shootout deaths — (Fresno Bee)Wednesday, November 9th, 2011SSRI Ed note: Man on Vicodin, Prozac, Valium and Temazepam shoots and kills two deputies and himself.
Arson suspect's son says mom needs mental help — (KTRE)Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
Midwest City teen who hacked grandparents to death pleads guilty to murder, arson — (NewsOK)Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011SSRI Ed note: Teen on antidepressants has medication adjusted due to aggression, hacks grandparents to death with machete, kills dog and sets house on fire. Gets life.
Gippsland man sent for trial — (The Age)Monday, July 5th, 2010SSRI Ed note: Man on antidepressants faces 190 charges related to setting brushfires including 10 counts of arson causing death.
Man endangered others by lighting fire in block of flats—(Worcester News)Friday, June 5th, 2009
Spurned wife burned down family home so ex-husband would get nothing from divorce—(Daily Mail)Thursday, May 21st, 2009
Prosecutors: Money was motive in murder plot—(myfoxorlando.com)Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
Woman jailed after starting fire at parents’ home—(This is Wiltshire today)Friday, April 24th, 2009
Woman jailed after starting fire at parents' home—(This is Wiltshire today)Friday, April 24th, 2009
Deputies Had Encountered Suspect Prior to Bomb Scare—(tricities.com)Tuesday, March 17th, 2009SSRI Ed note: Man on Effexor, Klonopin and Trileptal, drugged since a teen, has serious mood problems, fixation with bombs and lack of coping ability.
Arsonist blinded — (Bendigo Advertiser)Monday, February 2nd, 2009SSRI Ed note: Successful, respected executive takes antidepressants and other meds, starts a downward spiral in his life, sets fires, convicted.
Woman set fire to home — (Salisbury Journal)Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Coatesville man charged in fire death — (The Philadelphia Inquirer)Wednesday, December 10th, 2008SSRI Ed note: Man taking antidepressants is suicidal, hallucinates, sets a fire that kills an 83-yr-old woman.
Suspect says she fled scene without calling for firefighters’ help — (The Desert Sun)Friday, November 21st, 2008SSRI Ed note: Woman who fails to take her bipolar meds starts a fire, fails to notify fire department, causes huge damage and endangers neighbours.
Arsonist given extended jail term to protect public — (The Redditch Standard)Thursday, September 25th, 2008SSRI Ed note: Woman taking antidepressants commits offences, explicitly linked to missing her medication or drinking alcohol.
Husband wanted to end it all, court told — (The Sydney Morning Herald)Thursday, September 11th, 2008SSRI Ed note: Elderly man thinks there is something wrong with his antidepressant medication, becomes suicidal, attempts to murder his wife and die himself.
Jilted lover jailed for knife attack — (The Swindon Advertiser)Tuesday, June 24th, 2008SSRI Ed note: Woman on antidepressants drinks, sets house of ex-husband's girlfriend on fire, attacks her with knife, gets 4.5 years in priso, has little memory of events.
Community in shock over OPP injuries — (Cornwall Standard-Freeholder)Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Judge: Paramount man was sane when he killed wife, son in 2005 — (The Lompoc Record)Saturday, March 1st, 2008SSRI Ed note: Man on Zoloft becomes paranoid, murders wife and son, tries to get court to accept that drug was responsible, no success.
Depressed arsonist mum avoids jail — (The Age)Thursday, December 6th, 2007SSRI Ed note: Woman's high dose antidepressants make her "agitated and suicidal", she announces, carries out plan to set house on fire. Son gets her out. Depression blamed.
Man agrees to plea in children’s deaths, Avoids Possible Death Sentence — (The Charlotte Observer)Thursday, November 15th, 2007SSRI Ed note: Man stops taking antidepressants, becomes psychotic, kills his son and daughter, burns house, pleads guilty to avoid the death penalty.
Grudge led to two arsons, man says — (The Post-Tribune)Friday, October 12th, 2007SSRI Ed note: Man on antidepressants seeks revenge on neighbour, drinks, sets wrong car on fire.
City/Region News — (The Register-Guard)Tuesday, October 9th, 2007SSRI Ed note: Woman on antidepressants drinks, her behavior spirals out of control, she burns down her neighbour's home, is charged.
Ohio Woman Who Set Neighbors’ Homes on Fire Sentenced to 4 Years — (Insurance Journal)Tuesday, August 21st, 2007SSRI Ed note: Woman on Prozac who sets 13 fires claiming she did it because neighbours were playing loud music is jailed for 4 years,
Arsonist ‘stood like a god’ in ruins of house — (Herald News)Thursday, April 26th, 2007SSRI Ed note: Man on Prozac is suicidal, gets drunk and tries to kill himself by blowing up his apartment, endangering others. He is jailed for 27 months.
Suspect in fatal fire is mentally ill, mom says — (St Louis Post-Dispatch)Tuesday, April 17th, 2007SSRI Ed note: Man, 27, with criminal record withdrawing from Prozac, other antidepressants (stopped because of side effects), sets a house on fire killing 5 children.
Injured in Iraq, a Soldier Is Shattered at Home — (New York Times)Thursday, April 5th, 2007SSRI Ed note: Young private returns from Iraq permanently injured and blind, gets antidepressants and is aggressive, hostile and suicidal.
Police: Fatal fire set by suicidal family member — (WHAS 11)Tuesday, February 27th, 2007SSRI Ed note: Woman prescribed Prozac and amphetamine, takes more than normal, sets fire that kills her mother, daughter, grandson and self.
Lake fatal fire ruled arson, suicide — (The Canton Repository)Friday, February 16th, 2007SSRI Ed note: Woman on heavy dose of medication for depression dies by setting fire to her home.
Psychologists counter defense argument that accused arsonist was insane — (The Palm Beach Post)Thursday, December 14th, 2006SSRI Ed note: Man on antidepressants sets fire to churches based on bizarre beliefs, is charged, lawyers debate whether he is insane. Court decides he is responsible.
Summit Hill woman says she set fire in murder-suicide attempt — (The Morning Call)Friday, October 20th, 2006SSRI Ed note: Woman on antidepressants plans murder-suicide of herself and her kids by burning their home, but plan fails. She is charged, faces up to 20 years in prison,
Summit Hill fire set to kill children, police say — (The Morning Call)Friday, February 24th, 2006SSRI Ed note: Young mom on Lexapro plans murder-suicide of self and 2 kids, gives them all medication then sets the house on fire. All escape, she is charged.
‘He just lost it … He is overwhelmed. He is really emotional, he can’t really talk’ — (New York Daily News)Wednesday, December 28th, 2005SSRI Ed note: Man in withdrawal from Prozac goes on crime spree, attempts suicide, caught, pleads NCR.
Death penalty sought in kidnapping, murder of tool salesman — (The News Tribune)Tuesday, November 15th, 2005SSRI Ed note: Man on Prozac robs and watches friend murder truck driver knowing this was a problem but not bothering to stop it.
Judge denies bond request — (Macomb Journal)Friday, August 12th, 2005SSRI Ed note: Woman on Paxil served divorce papers, sets house belonging to estranged husband on fire with 6-yr-old boy inside.
Authorities say man acted alone in arson at McDonald’s in Sisters – The arrest of a student described as a gentle soul and a talented musician stuns the town of 1,500 — (The Oregonian)Thursday, July 14th, 2005SSRI Ed note: Young man on antidepressants sets a fire, causing major damage, for no apparent reason, nobody believes that he could be responsible.
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