Killer Dads: Fathers who ended their children's lives in situations involving child custody, visitation, and/or child support
MINNESOTA
Hennepin County
Father: PIERRE COLLINS
Victim: Barway Collins (10 years)
Date of Death: March 2015
Custodial father charged with 2nd-degree homicide after missing son found dead. Boy's mother lives in Liberia; how father obtained custody not clear. Father had already divorced second wife who had sole custody of their biological children as well as some of the ones the father had previously "adopted"--apparently from the Liberian mother. But she did not have custody of the deceased son. Second wife also reports domestic violence and child abuse. Father married a third wife, who is also accused of being abusive.
Olmstead County
Father: BRADLEY HIGGINS
Victim(s): Mackenzie Higgins (9 years)
Date of Death: November 2014
Father killed daughter in murder-suicide during visitation.
Ramsey County
Father: JOHN OLSON
Victim(s): Mikayla Olson (5 years)
Date of Death: 2004
Father given joint legal custody despite repeated threats to kill daughter, ex-wife. Two years after divorce, dad killed daughter in murder-suicide during “parenting time.”