Fact-checking sad statistic on women murdered by intimate partners in U.S.

The resignation of two White House aides accused of physically abusing their wives has shone a brighter spotlight on the scourge of domestic violence.

President Trump, who initially praised the work of one of the aides and wished him well, said one week after that he is "totally opposed to domestic violence."

Meanwhile, California Rep. Jackie Speier, a Democrat who represents the San Francisco area, weighed in through Twitter with an alarming statement:

"3 American women are murdered every day by their husband or boyfriend."

Domestic violence plagues all corners of the United States, no matter a community’s political leanings, economic status or demographic make-up. Still, we wanted to know whether the congresswoman’s provocative claim was accurate and what source of informationvictims were "wives or intimate acquaintances of their killers."

That works out to 2.54 female victims killed by an intimate partner on average per day in the United States. While Speier stated "women," ages were not specified in the report.

The report, which is the most complete and current we could find, indicates the assailants were not just husbands or boyfriends, but also ex-spouses and former boyfriends.

Common claim

Several domestic violence prevention groups have cited the same "three women murdered" figure on their websites. At least two of these, the National Organization for Women and the American Psychological Association, cited data that’s a decade or more older from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, an office at the U.S. Department of Justice.

The National Organization for Women, for example, cited federal statistics from