He admitted killing his wife and previously abused others. Why has he been free for over a year?

The soft, halting notes of a piano lingered in the dark room from a video as Shalanda Archie-Cook rocked her 6-year-old sniffling son to sleep. “She’s right here,” she told him, pausing to take a shuddering breath. “In your heart.”

News, Mississippi News, Domestic ViolenceJerry MitchellSeptember 18, 2022domestic violence, abuse, domestic homicide, domestic abuse, husband killed wife, Anteetta Archie Swims, David Lee Swims, Oxford, murder

Nightmare at Home: how more and more children are being killed by their parents in murder suicides across America

In the picturesque California neighborhood of Paradise Hills sits an ordinary, one-story, light beige house with a dark wooden roof. This is where Zeth, 11, Zuriel, 5, Enzi, 3, and Ezekiel, 9, died at the hands of their father in a murder-suicide. He also killed their mother, Sabrina Rosario.

News, Mississippi News, Domestic ViolenceJerry MitchellSeptember 13, 2022domestic violence, abuse, murder suicide, domestic homicide, murdered children, fathers kill children, revenge, control, ERPO, red flag laws, domestic abuse, database

Two mothers saw the system fail to protect their children from violent men. Now they’re trying to reform the system.

Alison Kessler read the text again on her smartphone: I want to see your head separated from your body.

News, Domestic ViolenceJerry MitchellSeptember 12, 2022domestic violence, abuse, murder suicide, domestic homicide, murdered children, fathers kill children, Greyson's law, revenge, control, Tate's law, Kayla White, Alison Kessler, police failure, reform

Children become collateral damage in domestic violence epidemic

Tirany Savage told a Michigan judge in June that her estranged husband, Bo, was acting erratically and threatening violence.

News, Mississippi News, Domestic ViolenceJerry MitchellAugust 30, 2022domestic violence, abuse, murder suicide, domestic homicide, murdered children, fathers kill children, Greyson's law, revenge, control

There Oughta be a Law. Or Should There?

CANTON — As a survivor of domestic violence, Pheonecia Ratliff did almost everything right.
She contacted the police. She filed domestic violence charges against her abuser. She filed stalking charges. Her abuser was given a no-contact order.
But she never got her day in court.

Mississippi News, NewsJerry MitchellJune 15, 2021Pheonecia Ratliff, Operation Pheonecia, domestic violence, domestic abuse, domestic homicide, Jamarquis Black, Black women, Canton, Luke Thompson, Suzanne Ratliff, Mike Hurst