This article reports on a study that tests whether concepts from the myth of redemptive violence, constructed for describing social and political violence (Wink, 1992(Wink, , 1998, fit perpetrators' descriptions of their acts of interpersonal violence. In seeking the perspectives of persons who perpetrate interpersonal violence, in its life history method, and in its qualitative theory testing, the research is within the traditions of the Chicago School of Sociology. The life history interviews were with a sample of more than 140 men and seven women known to have committed felony level acts of interpersonal violence, such as sexual and physical assault, attempted murder, and murder. The approach was deductive qualitative research (Casula et al., 2020;Gilgun, 2019) that involved testing the fit between the principles and concepts of redemptive violence and the narrative accounts of the life histories. Results showed that the myth of redemptive violence fits many perpetrators' descriptions of their lived experience during acts of interpersonal violence, while at the same time showing unanticipated variations within the categories of the initial conceptual framework. Because scholars originally developed notions of redemptive violence for sociopolitical violence, its applicability to interpersonal violence increases its validity and thus its relevance to a range of applications, such as theory development, policies, programs, and prevention efforts.