The evening of May 4th 2001, Bonny Lee Bakley was sitting in her vehicle waiting for her husband when she was fatally shot. The primary suspect was her husband, Robert Blake. Robert Blake was well known in Hollywood for his acting career. Bonny Bakley had been married to Robert Blake for about 6 months. However, several sources discussed that their relationship seemed to be a rocky one, since Bonny was known to be a manipulative gold-digger and was suspected of trapping Blake into marrying her by having his child. Blake’s defense team used Bakley’s questionable character to make the jurors believe Blake was merely one of the many men that Bakley tried to take advantage of and that there were many men who had a motive to kill her.
Moments before the murder Bakley and Blake went to have
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The Walther P-38 was found coated in dirt along with unknown oil matter. They couldn’t recover fingerprints from the weapon nor could they make out the serial number because it had been filed down.
Furthermore, the night of the murder Blake was carrying a registered .38 Special Smith and Wesson revolver so when he was tested for gunshot residue his defense argued that the powder could have been from the revolver he was carrying, not from the murder weapon. Interestingly enough, ABC News reported that Blake was a known gun collector and the Walther P-38 was confirmed to be a World War II gun.
A suspicious list of supplies found in Earle Caldwell’s vehicle led prosecutors to believe that Blake had sent his handyman Caldwell to shop for items to get rid of Bakley’s body, described Murderpedia. Amongst the supplies listed were two shovels, small sledge, crowbar, 25-auto, get blank gun ready, old rugs, duct tape-black, draino, pool acid, and lye. Blake’s attorneys debated that the supplies were necessary for the ongoing remodeling occurring in Blake’s home during that
Belle Boyd was a famous spy for the Southern army during the Civil War. She was born in May, 1844 in Virginia to a wealthy Southern family. Belle Boyd, or Maria Isabella Boyd began to stand up for the Confederates at age 17. She shot and killed a drunken Union soldier at that age, and thus began to gain notoriety. She often spied on the Union army camps, sometimes acting like a courier for the North.
The weapon was a stun gun and investigators of the crime of JonBenet Ramsey believe that he might have used it on her, maybe that's how she
Annie Jean Easley was born April 23, 1933 to Mary Melvina Hoover and Samuel Bird Easley, in Birmingham Alabama. She was raised, along with her older brother, by a single mom. Annie attended schools in Birmingham and graduated high school valedictorian of her class. Throughout high school Annie wanted to be a nurse because she thought that the only careers that were open to African American women at the time were nursing and teaching and she definitely did not want to teach so she settled on being a nurse but as she studied in high school she began thinking about becoming a pharmacist.
The murder of Lizzie Borden’s father, Andrew borden, and her stepmother Abby Borden has been an ongoing mystery over 100 years now. No one has seemed to figure out the real murderer. A main suspect that the police had interviewed was Lizzie borden, the daughter to Andrew Borden and step daughter to Abby Borden. Yet no one has seemed to figure out the real murderer. I believe Lizzie borden murdered her parents with having satisfaction that she covered it up so well.
My name is Queenie Bligh, and I was born in London, England. I am Christian and I have a conservative point of view of politics. I am married to Bernard Bligh and have a son named Michael. I am a warm hearted and kind person even though I truly call myself the daredevil because I like to do new
In Fall River a girl that goes by Lizzie Borden killed her parents out of anger and rage. This was a planned murder due to family friction and the relationship in the family. It seems apparent that Lizzie Borden killed her parents due to a bad relationship and friction between the three. Lizzie Borden killed her parents over a fit of range and an insecure mindset to be thinking. For example, she had a bad home life and relationship with her family members.
This past week has been rough for the Robinson family. After a racist jury choose to make an innocent man guilty things went from bad to worse. Atticus Finch was chosen to defend Tom Robinson. This particular case was against Mayella Ewell, a white woman. As a black man Tom was already at a disadvantage.
The controversial debate regarding the excessive use of force that has at many times been implemented is becoming more and more frequent in the news. With the help of the following articles, What we didn’t know before the James Forcillo Trial by Wendy Gillis, Toronto cop James Forcillo granted bail in fatal TTC shooting by City News, Sammy Yatim Streetcar Shooting: Toronto Police Investigation Leaves Unanswered Questions by, The Huffington Post, Toronto cops convicted and accused of bad behavior may hurt public trust: critics by, Mark Carcasole and Why James Forcillo was charged with murder in the Yatim shooting by CBC News, I am going to prove my point. It is never okay for a police officer to shoot to kill. They are supposed to shoot,
Emmett Till, a young black boy of Mississippi, was murdered by Roy Bryant and John W. Milam in August of 1955. The notorious case drew in a crowd of more than a thousand people, all attentive to the decision on whether or not to indict the accused men. However, by the ruling of an all-white-man jury, Bryant and Milam were acquitted on all charges. This decision sparked a national outcry from the African American population, and ultimately fueled the flames to Black Civil Rights in the South. Despite racial barriers established in America, Bryant, Milam, and the town of Sumner, Mississippi recognized the extinguished life of a human being, not just a negro boy, evidenced through the website famous murder trials by Douglas O. Linder.
This is an essay about an unforgettable time in history, which was known as the Scopes Monkey Trial. The Scopes Monkey Trial occurred in the 1920’s. During this time period most people believed in fundamentalism. Their belief was so strong that they created a law prohibiting the teaching of it in public schools, the law was known as the Butler Act . There was a guy named John Scopes who was a school teacher who willingly broke the Butler Act and decided to teach evolution one day.
The United States of America in the 1920s was a period of debate, of shifting values and changing social structures, and was, above anything else, a battleground of clashing ideologies that ultimately boiled down and exploded within the Scopes Trial of 1925. The Scopes Trial was not in any way, shape, or form primarily a conflict of simply one issue alone. Instead, the Scopes Trial was the height of the tensions that emerged within America during the infamous Roaring 20s, and it, unfortunately, pushed smaller, less-debated topics to the sidelines to make way for the main conflict. Issues which revolved around racial and gender tensions existed and were debated at length within society, but were completely ignored during the proceedings of the
The controversy also lies on the fact that many people, who have used weapons, have used it for wrong reasons, such as murder or assault. Nugent makes a good point when he mentioned the lady in
William O’Leary Mrs. Bowie HIS 101 3 November 2014 The Newton Courts Banishment of Mrs. Hutchinson The Trial of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson was a controversial case between 1636 and 1638. Mrs. Anne Hutchinson was a Puritan leader, and had a great following of people within the Boston colony. The church resented her for speaking ill against the ministers.
If you truly want something in life you have to work for it. Do not let anything get in your way on achieving your dreams, especially not your disabilities. Shelley Beattie turned a negative situation to a positive one. Firstly, Shelley Beattie was born and raised in Orange County, and at the age of three became deaf in one ear and partial in the other for accidentally swallowing a whole bottle of aspirin. At the age of eleven, Shelley moved to Oregon.
A: Plan of Investigation To what extent did the Murder Trial of Ruby McCollum in 1952 bring exposure to the “Paramour Rights” in the south? On August 3, 1952 in Live Oak, Florida, Ruby McCollum, a wealthy African American woman married to a well known local racketeer, shot and killed white doctor, C. Leroy Adams. McCollum claimed Dr. Adams forcefully raped her and forced her to carry his children. Adams continued to force sex upon McCollum, and her husband threatened to kill her if she had another child by Adams. However, Adams threatened to kill McCollum if she tried to get an abortion.