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Wednesday, October 22, 2008 12:00 AM

Main Street's body count rises

As suicides and murders emerge in the wake of the financial crisis, the fallout is increasingly measured not only in dollars but in blood.
By Nick Turse

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  • Wednesday, October 22, 2008 08:15 AM

    Yeah I think these are badly crazy people who would have done something like this anyhow

    It's convenient to brand it with the stigma of financial failure but again, it's pretty unusual for middle class family men to commit mass murder over money especially on their own family. You see that sort of thing with Andrea Yates, cultists and such.

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