Mariticide (from Latin maritus "married" + -cide, from caedere "to cut, to kill") literally means the murder of one's married partner, but has become most associated with the murder of a husband by his wife, as the reverse's given the name uxoricide. Notable instances Historical Laodice I allegedly poisoned her husband Antiochus II Theos of the Seleucid dynasty around 246 BC. Heather Osland drugged and had her son kill her husband in 1991, creating a test case for the 'battered woman syndrome… (More on Mariticide)