Malcolm Webster Ford (February 7, 1862 – May 8, 1902) was an American athlete and journalist best known for the murder-suicide where he shot his brother Paul and then himself.
[1] In his heyday during the 1880s, he was three times the American National Champion as "All Around Athlete", a competition which was the equivalent of today's decathlon.
In 1885 and 1886 he was the winner at the National Championships of the long jump and 100 and 200 yard dash, a "triple" which was not accomplished again until Carl Lewis did it in 1983.
At other times he worked as a journalist (his articles on track and field events were published in Outing magazine).
Before the couple divorced in 1898, they had one child together: On May 8, 1902, Ford went to 37 East 77th Street,[1] his brother Paul's residence in Manhattan, and fatally shot him in his library before shooting himself.