PARRICIDE

[noun] legal - the crime of murdering a close relative, esp. a parent, or a person who has committed this crimeWe don't know what it was that drove her to parricide. [U]There have been two unusual parricides in recent months. [C]In ancient Greek stories, Oedipus was a parricide (= a person who killed one of his parents). [C]Compare matricide; patricide.