“…Feminist research has consistently demonstrated a strong association between intimate partner femicide (IPF) and coercive and controlling behaviors by perpetrators (Johnson et al, 2019;Monckton Smith et al, 2017;Stark, 2009). Recently, links between IPF and offender attempts to conceal the homicide have emerged, indicating IPFs are not uncommonly masked as non-suspicious deaths such as suicides or accidents (Bitton & Dayan, 2019;Eke, 2007;Ferguson, 2021;Ferguson & Sutherland, 2018;McLachlan, 2023;Monckton Smith, 2019). Explanations for IPF offenders concealing homicides are limited and unspoken, seemingly based on assumptions of perpetrators avoiding accountability (Eke, 2007;Ferguson, 2021;Monckton Smith, 2019).…”