Society Murders
| Date | 4 April 2002 |
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| Location | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Type | Familicide |
| Cause | Death by strangulation |
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The Society Murders is the name given to the 4 April 2002 parricide of husband and wife millionaire socialites Margaret Mary Wales-King, 69, and husband, Paul Aloysius King, 75, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, by Wales-King's 34-year-old son, Matthew Robert Wales. News media throughout Australia covered the crime and subsequent trial, which later became the subject of a book and a television film.