Sororicide

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• Berenice IV of Egypt is believed to have poisoned her sister Cleopatra VI Tryphaena in 57 BC. She was later beheaded on the orders of her father, Ptolemy XII.
• Cleopatra VII of Egypt requested the execution of her sister, Arsinoe IV, (who was guilty of treason) which was carried out under the orders of her husband, then lover, Mark Antony, in 41 BC.
• Roman emperor Caligula, according to historian Suetonius, killed his sister Drusilla after learning that she was pregnant with his child in AD 38. Most historians now believe that she probably died of fever.^{[citation needed]}
• Roman emperor Commodus ordered his older sister Lucilla to be put to death in AD 182, after she was implicated in plots with members of the Senate to overthrow him.
• Italian poet Isabella di Morra was killed by her brothers around 1546 for a suspected affair with a married nobleman, whom they also murdered.^[1]
• Ronald DeFeo Jr. shot his two sisters, Allison and Dawn, in 1974. Their murders became the inspiration for the Amityville Horror books and films.
• David Brom murdered his sister with an ax, alongside his brother, mother, and father in 1988.
• Canadian serial killers Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo raped, then killed Karla's sister Tammy Homolka in 1990; allegedly, the killing was accidental.
• Martin Peyerl killed his sister Daniela in the Bad Reichenhall Shootings.^{[citation needed]}
• Hatun Sürücü
  was murdered by her brother in Germany in 2005.
• Yuki Muto murdered his sister Azumi Muto on December 30, 2006 in Japan.
• Sadia Sheikh
  was murdered by her brother in 2007 in Belgium.
• Aqsa Parvez was murdered by her brother in 2007 in Canada.
• Morsal Obeidi
  was murdered by her brother in 2008 in Germany.
• Saima Khan, a 34-year-old carer and mother of three, was killed by her 27-year-old sister, Sabah Khan, on 23 May 2016 in Luton, Bedfordshire.^[2]
• Ella Bennett, 4, was murdered by her thirteen-year-old brother, Paris Bennett in Abilene Texas.

In fiction

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Mythology

• The story of the Horatii involves a sororicide: after a set of Roman triplets, the Horatii, defeat a set of Alba Longan triplets, the Curiatii, in single combat to keep Rome from Alba Longan rule, the Horatii's sister was killed by the surviving Horatius for mourning the death of one of the Curiatii, to whom she was engaged. The Roman courts condemned the Horatius to death for the murder despite his service, and it was only his father's appeal to the people that saved him.

Literature

• In William Shakespeare's King Lear, Goneril poisons her sister Regan in their struggle for power.
• In Raymond Carver's Furious Seasons, Lew Farrell kills his sister, Iris, after learning she is pregnant as a result of their incestual relationship.

Anime

• In the manga series Reiko the Zombie Shop, the main antagonist Riruka attempts to kill her sister Reiko out of jealousy over Reiko gaining the responsibility of inheriting their family's title of the "Zombie Shop".
• In the anime Blood+, Chiropterans have a biological hive system. Two twin Queens are always born from cocoons in one of the preceding Queen's womb. When the blood of one Queen mixes with her sister's, it violently crystallizes. In Blood+, Saya kills her twin sister Diva in a 123-year-old war between them.
• In the anime Death Note, Light Yagami considers killing his sister, Sayu, when she ends up being captured by Mello and his gang in an attempt to retrieve the titular Death Note.
• In the anime Code Geass, Lelouch Lamperouge kills his half-sister Euphemia li Britannia in order to stop a massacre that he accidentally ordered her to start.
• In the Angel Sanctuary OVA, Rosiel is shown happily saying he will murder Alexiel, who is currently inhabiting Setsuna's body, if she does not return his love.
• in the anime Akame ga Kill!, the two sisters Akame and Kurome spend most of the series trying or plotting to kill each other.
• In the anime Case Closed (Detective Conan), specifically episodes 128–129 "The Forgotten Bond Parts 1 and 2", Maya Garrett (Mina Aoshima) apparently tapes herself inside a bathroom and slits her own wrist. Heavy suspicion comes down on Mindy Garrett (Masayo Aoshima), the victim's older sister, who is seen hysterically laughing over Maya's death.

Films

• In the Halloween film series, serial killer Michael Myers slays his older sister, Judith Myers in the first movie and its remake, and his younger sister, Laurie Strode in the eighth movie.
• In the 1962 movie What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (as well as the 1991 TV movie What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?), sisters Blanche and Jane mistreat and attempt to kill each other out of jealousy and hatred.
• In the 1993 film
  Diana Kimble
  with a knife on her back.
• In the 1993 movie The Good Son, Henry Evans tries to kill his younger sister, Connie.
• In the 2002 movie Chicago, Velma Kelly kills her husband and sister after she sees them "doing the Spread Eagle".
• In the horror film Catacombs, a deranged Victoria kills her sister Carolyn in a rage after being yelled at over the accidental killing of Jean-Michael.
• In the 2000 movie
  Ghostface, decapitates his sister Buffy with a cleaver
  he hid in his cloak.
• In The Evil Dead, Ash Williams killed his sister by burning the book.
• In Frozen, Elsa almost killed her sister Anna as a result of striking her with her ice powers in the head while playing as children. Years later, she does it again when in a bout of panic, this time she accidentally strikes her sister in the heart, causing her to freeze painfully from the inside out until she ultimately becomes a solid block of ice and revived seconds later with her sister's love toward the end of the movie.
• In the 2016 film A Wedding, the main character, Zahira Kazim, is murdered by her brother Amir, in an honor killing, after she walks out of a forced marriage.