Released each year for Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October, this study uses 2023 data, the most recent available, from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and analyzes homicides involving one female murder victim and one male offender. This is the 28th edition of When Men Murder Women and this year presents only national data. While 25 prior editions of the report ranked the states by their rate of females killed by males, due to an ongoing switchover in the way the FBI collects and reports crime data, the information currently available does not allow for state ranking. The VPC hopes that at some point in the near future FBI crime data will once again be sufficiently robust to allow for a more complete analysis of the state-level data, including state rankings.
Additional Materials
- Press Release: Black Women Murdered by Men Are Almost Always Killed by Someone They Know, Most Commonly with a Gun (09/24/2025)
- Slideshow: Key Findings from When Men Murder Women
- Slideshow: Black Females Killed by Males–Key Findings from When Men Murder Women
- Fact Sheet: South Carolina’s History of Deadly Violence Against Women
- Social Media Graphics