Robert William Fisher, Family Annihilator

The True Crime Times
11 min readJul 10, 2020
Source: Space Coast Daily

Inside the Mind of a Family Annihilator

Your family likely means the world to you. There’s nothing you wouldn’t do to protect them. The loss of a child would rip a massive chunk out of your soul and leave a hole that could never be filled.

If this sounds like you, it means you’re a normal person.

But there are people in this world who will stop at nothing to get what they want — or to get rid of what they don’t want — and even flesh and blood is not off-limits. We are all familiar with people who kill their families, including Josh Powell and Chris Watts, just to name a couple.

These people are known as family annihilators. Rather than protecting those who ought to be dearest to them, they destroy them for a variety of selfish reasons.

Source: Independent

Here are a few facts about family annihilators:

  • According to a team of British criminologists, family annihilators fall under four categories: self-righteous, anomic (defined by Dictionary.com as “a state or condition of individuals or society characterized by a breakdown or absence of societal norms and values, as in the

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