One woman a week dies at the hands of her partner or ex-partner. New ways of tackling domestic homicide

By Melissa Fyfe
Updated March 29 2015 - 1:08am, first published 12:15am
Illustration: Michael Mucci.  Photo: Michael Mucci
Illustration: Michael Mucci. Photo: Michael Mucci

On a late March day in 2002, William Cotter arrived at his wife's house in Massachusetts like a man going to war. He had a sawn-off shotgun, handcuffs, pepper spray and ammunition belts. As his daughter cowered upstairs, Cotter shot his wife, Dorothy Giunta-Cotter, at close range, before turning the gun on himself.

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