Stalking and Intimate Partner Femicide

• 76% of intimate partner femicide victims have been stalked by their intimate partner.
  
  
• 67% had been physically abused by their intimate partner.
  
  
• 89% of femicide victims who had been physically assaulted had
  also been stalked in the 12 months before their murder.
  
  
• 79% of abused femicide victims reported being stalked during the
  same period that they were abused.
  
  
• 54% of femicide victims reported stalking to police before they
  were killed by their stalkers.
  
  [Judith McFarlane et al., “Stalking and Intimate Partner Femicide,” Homicide Studies 3, no. 4 (1999).]