Mary Horton Vail
Control, isolation and verbal, emotional and physical abuse defined Mississippi native Felix Vail?s relationship with his first wife, Mary, her friends and relatives told The Clarion-Ledger.
It was a pattern Vail allegedly repeated with at least three other women.
All those characteristics are hallmarks of domestic violence, experts say. And domestic violence, they add, often escalates into homicide.
Vail?s wife Mary drowned. Another wife and a girlfriend disappeared. The FBI has investigated Vail, the last known person seen with all three, as a serial killer suspect.
The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff?s Office has reopened the Oct. 28, 1962, drowning of Mary Horton Vail, who had bruises on the back of her neck, according to her autopsy report.
Jack Levin, co-director of the Brudnick Center on Conflict and Violence at Northeastern University, said domestic violence tends to be repeated ?and can escalate sometimes into murder.?
In three-fourths of intimate partner homicides,?the man physically abused the woman before the killing took place, according to a study by the National Institute of Justice.
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