Here are the names of the 10 American women killed by their partners from New Year’s Eve to New Year’s Day, 2018

At the beginning of this year, in a 24-hour period lasting from 5 p.m. on New Year’s Eve to the same time on New Year’s Day, at least 10 American women were killed by their past or present intimate partners. And at least 25 were killed the first week of the year. These numbers have not been reflected in annual domestic violence statistics released to the public yet, but were found by carefully gleaning newspapers across the country for stories of women who were killed by husbands, ex-husbands and boyfriends.

Several were murdered in public during an argument, and one (a mother of five young children) was killed at a New Year’s party.

Twenty-five women were killed by partners in the first week of January, 2018.

It’s another statistic that reminds us just how deadly the problem of domestic violence is in the United States — and that while some doubt the numbers or believe they’re exaggerated, they’re actually understated each year, for a number of reasons. Some don’t understand the extent of the problem, though. Ten months ago, in February of this year, California Rep. Jackie Speier Tweeted, “3 American women are murdered every day by their husband or boyfriend.” As a result, the non-profit fact-checking outlet, Politifact, run by the Poynter journalism institute, set out to determine whether her “provocative”…