Frederick Defrouville
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- Gender
- male
- Country
- USA
- Location
- Washington, D. C., USA
- Date of birth
- 1850
- Age at first offence
- 33
- Characteristics
- parricide, motive unknown
- Victim profile
- His wife, Andrea Defrouville (nee Andrea Marie Wolstrup)
- Method of murder
- Shooting
- Date(s) of murder
- April 4, 1883
- Years active
- 1883
- Date of arrest
- —
- Status
-
Died in custody
Committed suicide by shooting himself the same day
Name
Frederick Defrouville
Legal outcome
Frederick Defrouville murdered his wife, Andrea Defrouville (née Andrea Marie Wolstrup), on April 4, 1883 in Washington, D. C., and then took his own life.
The offence
Frederick Defrouville entered the residence where his wife was and shot Mrs. Defrouville. Frederick Defrouville then shot himself with a revolver.
Investigation and inquest
An inquest determined that Andrea Defrouville was giving German lessons to an 18 year old neighbor when her estranged husband entered the residence and shot her and then himself with a revolver.
Background
Frederick Defrouville was a clerk in the Agriculture Dept. at the time of the murder/suicide. Andrea Defrouville was employed in the Department of Agriculture as a translator. Andrea Defrouville secured her employment from her association with Senator Benjamin Harvey Hill. Previously, Mrs. Defrouville had worked in the dead letters section of the Post Office after immigrating from Denmark in 1871, through her connection to the former U.S. consul to that country. Frederic DeFrouville was a nephew by marriage of Confederate States of America spy Aaron Van Camp. Frederick Defrouville was the son of French national Frederick Defrouville, who emigrated to the United States in the 1840s. Suspected marital infidelity was described as a motivating factor.
Victims
Andrea Defrouville (née Andrea Marie Wolstrup)
Aftermath
Andrea Defrouville was buried in the Congressional Cemetery. Frederick Defrouville was buried in Glenwood Cemetery.
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