Today’s Fixated Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
A case cited by Dr. Melvin Reinhardt in his classic study, Sex Perversions and Sex Crimes (1957):
The father of a family of three girls, all in their teens, had ceased to have sexual relations with his wife. His sexual desires became fixated on the 14-year-old daughter. One day, he met her out of school, drove her to a quiet lane, and had intercourse with her. The girl admitted in her statement to the police: “For two or three times. Daddy removed my panties… then I began liking it.” Like many young girls, she was infatuated with her father.
For the next three years they continued to have sexual intercourse two or three times a week, and he also encouraged her to stimulate him orally. One night, the mother heard the daughter going to the father’s bed. There was a violent quarrel, and she threatened to report him to the police. It was after this that he began to brood on killing his wife and one of the other daughters. (The third was away from home.) He then enlisted the aid of the incestuous daughter who alleged: “He said he wouldn’t interfere with me any more if I helped to pour gasoline on the floor.”
On the afternoon of the murder, he met his youngest daughter, Ruth (age 13), in the kitchen and hit her violently in the stomach, knocking her unconscious. When his wife came in, he also struck her with his fists; he was obviously a powerful man, for three blows laid her out, too. The eldest daughter then came in: they both soaked the kitchen (and the unconscious wife and daughter) in paraffin. As they left, the man tossed a match into the room. As the place burst into flames, he drove off, went shopping, went for a swim, and then returned home, and found the fire engines there and the house burnt out. The empty paraffin cans gave the police the clue to the fire.
Culled from: Crimes and Punishment: The Illustrated Crime Encyclopedia, Volume 2