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Northshore October 2025
In 2002, the most senior advocate at the Women’s Crisis Center in Newburyport put a yellow sticky note on a client’s file that said, “very lethal case.”  Within six weeks, the woman was dead, murdered by her husband, who also killed himself, orphaning their two daughters.  Twenty years ago, domestic violence advocates had very little to go on besides intuition when it came to identifying especially lethal cases, says Suzanne Dubus, CEO of what is now the Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center. “At that time, that’s the only way we knew to identify really dangerous cases,” she says. And although they threw everything
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