Retired PA State Police Officer Kills Wife After Arrest for Domestic Violence and Threats

Here's one more case where someone was not reading the news reports and studies about domestic violence. An extra factor may be that the man was a police officer. Police and courts are reluctant to hold police and court employees to the same standards as civilians. Nonetheless the woman was murdered with some warning and some officials feared that would be the outcome. There is no easy solution to this continuing abuse but care and diligence is not being done by officials in some communities, geographic and sociological.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2300790/Horror-retired-state-trooper-guns-estranged-wife-supermarket-turning-gun-week-filed-divorce.html

Horror as retired state trooper guns down his estranged wife in supermarket before turning gun on himself a week after she filed for divorce
Mark R. Miscavish, 51, had been state trooper for 15 years until his 2011 retirement
Received divorce papers from his estranged wife last week
He was arrested in January for allegedly attacking Traci Miscavish after she briefly returned to their home to pick up belongings
By BETH STEBNER
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 18:54 EST, 28 March 2013 | UPDATED: 18:54 EST, 28 March 2013