# 100 year old man kills 88 year old wife with ax, then commits suicide **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 10, 2015, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-year-old-man-kills-88-year-old-wife-with-ax-then-commits-suicide/717328 "2015-04-10T14:02:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-year-old-man-kills-88-year-old-wife-with-ax-then-commits-suicide/717328/21 "2015-04-11T01:27:08Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > Wonder if he’ll get life? > > “becoming one of the oldest people ever accused of homicide.” Of all the places I know, this may be the best place to ask ---- who is the actual record holder? Well, Massachusetts contributes a 102-year-old woman to the discussion…can someone top that? [http://m.kickerdaily.com/102-year-old-woman-charged-with-murder-the-oldest-defendant-in-the-state-history/](http://m.kickerdaily.com/102-year-old-woman-charged-with-murder-the-oldest-defendant-in-the-state-history/) ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-year-old-man-kills-88-year-old-wife-with-ax-then-commits-suicide/717328/22 "2015-04-11T01:29:02Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > Wonder if he’ll get life? You missed the “then commits suicide” part of the story? ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-year-old-man-kills-88-year-old-wife-with-ax-then-commits-suicide/717328/23 "2015-04-11T04:17:20Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > I am curious as to his motivation. Was he angry at her or did he feel he could no longer take care of her? Was a note left? Probably one of them love triangle things. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-year-old-man-kills-88-year-old-wife-with-ax-then-commits-suicide/717328/24 "2015-04-11T14:38:20Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#): > > Probably one of them love triangle things. Maybe I’m obtuse but I don’t understand? ---
**Author:** ![Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac8455/32.png) [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-year-old-man-kills-88-year-old-wife-with-ax-then-commits-suicide/717328/25 "2015-04-11T14:46:41Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > We need axe control in this country. (wait, which country is this story from? i didn’t click the link) Pish. Axes don’t kill people, centenarians kill people. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-year-old-man-kills-88-year-old-wife-with-ax-then-commits-suicide/717328/26 "2015-04-11T17:35:10Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > Maybe I’m obtuse but I don’t understand? It’s an acute pain in the [(x[sup]2[/sup] + y[sup]2[/sup] − 1)[sup]3[/sup] − x[sup]2[/sup]y[sup]3[/sup] = 0](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_%28symbol%29#/media/File:Heart_plot.svg). ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-year-old-man-kills-88-year-old-wife-with-ax-then-commits-suicide/717328/27 "2015-04-11T18:17:27Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Well, Massachusetts contributes a 102-year-old woman to the discussion…can someone top that? > > [http://m.kickerdaily.com/102-year-old-woman-charged-with-murder-the-oldest-defendant-in-the-state-history/](http://m.kickerdaily.com/102-year-old-woman-charged-with-murder-the-oldest-defendant-in-the-state-history/) Ah, but she was 102 when charged with the murder. She was a mere babe of 98 when she actually did the dastardly deed. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-year-old-man-kills-88-year-old-wife-with-ax-then-commits-suicide/717328/28 "2015-04-11T18:55:03Z")
He was 12 years older than she was. Those kind of May-December romances never turn out well. She was probably flirting with some 80-year-old at the senior center, who wasn’t even old enough to remember the passage of the 19th amendment, and was still in diapers, when he, her husband was at boot camp, and praying that the US stuck to its non-intervention policies. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2015, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-year-old-man-kills-88-year-old-wife-with-ax-then-commits-suicide/717328/29 "2015-04-12T00:34:37Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > You missed the “then commits suicide” part of the story? :smack: Damn this speed reading. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2015, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-year-old-man-kills-88-year-old-wife-with-ax-then-commits-suicide/717328/30 "2015-04-12T01:22:25Z")
It took place on Easter Sunday? ---
**Author:** ![sara20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@sara20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sara20)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2015, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-year-old-man-kills-88-year-old-wife-with-ax-then-commits-suicide/717328/31 "2015-04-12T01:51:58Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Can a 100 year old even hit that hard? Was wondering the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2015, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-year-old-man-kills-88-year-old-wife-with-ax-then-commits-suicide/717328/32 "2015-04-12T02:16:55Z")
> [@sara20](#): > > Was wondering the same thing. To be serious, and I won’t make a habit out of it – if he could lift it say a couple feet above his target (even if it was a hatchet let alone a full-blown ax) just the weight of it falling blade first could cause some serious damage and/or death to a healthy person. One her age and health unknown? I’m not surprised. (I was once sheathing a knife and it slipped through my fingers and missed the sheath. It went through my boot and foot. Gravity can be a bitch at times given the right (or wrong) sharp object.) ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2015, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-year-old-man-kills-88-year-old-wife-with-ax-then-commits-suicide/717328/33 "2015-04-12T02:51:41Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > Was a note left? “I’ll handle this.” ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2015, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-year-old-man-kills-88-year-old-wife-with-ax-then-commits-suicide/717328/34 "2015-04-12T05:52:46Z")
I guess he had an axe to grind. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2015, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-year-old-man-kills-88-year-old-wife-with-ax-then-commits-suicide/717328/35 "2015-04-12T06:53:49Z")
Given he was the one suffering from dementia, I could think of all sorts of tragic possibilities for how he could kill her with an axe while having an attack, and then come to and see what he’d done… ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2015, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-year-old-man-kills-88-year-old-wife-with-ax-then-commits-suicide/717328/36 "2015-04-12T08:03:30Z")
Henry finally sharpened his axe dear Lisa? ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2015, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-year-old-man-kills-88-year-old-wife-with-ax-then-commits-suicide/717328/37 "2015-04-12T09:07:36Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > It took place on Easter Sunday? Someone who’s going to commit axe murder probably isn’t paying attention to the date. Plus, you don’t know that they were Christians who knew or cared when Easter was. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-year-old-man-kills-88-year-old-wife-with-ax-then-commits-suicide/717328/38 "2015-04-13T14:56:12Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Given he was the one suffering from dementia, I could think of all sorts of tragic possibilities for how he could kill her with an axe while having an attack, **and then come to and see what he’d done…** give the father forty-one? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-year-old-man-kills-88-year-old-wife-with-ax-then-commits-suicide/717328.md?page=1)