Bruce McArthur Case Study # 2 Bruce McArthur is an infamously well-known Canadian Serial killer, known for his Toronto Village Brutal murders, Bruce McArthur was born in 1951 In Lindsay, Ontario. Bruce was a landscaper which played a part in his concealing of the remains of the men he murdered, He had been known to have relationships with men of the middle easter decent which most of his victims ended up being of this decent, McArthur had committed his brutal murders between the years of 2010 – 2017. What was the Crime?
On December 24, 1968, a 10-year-old girl named Pamela Powers went missing in Des Moines, Iowa. Henry Williams, who had recently escaped a mental hospital, was seen carrying a “large bundle wrapped in a blanket” into his car. Without anyone being able to see what was in the bundle he drove 160 miles east of Des Moines where he abandoned his car. Henry Williams called a lawyer named Henry McKnight, who then informed officers that Williams was going to turn himself in. From the Des Moines Police station McKnight called Williams to inform him that two Des Moines Police officers will be driving to his location to pick him up.
Police began the investigation by searching for witnesses at the last known location of Sarah Hansen, the local store where she had been attempting to rent a movie to watch later that evening with her boyfriend. By canvassing the last known whereabouts of the missing person, it was discovered that Mr. Woodall was at the same location around the time that Sarah went missing. Two hours into the search for the missing teenager, police officers discovered a 500-foot trail of blood that led from Mr. Woodall’s van to the semi-frozen lake where Sarah Hansen’s body was found (Supreme Court of Kentucky, 2001). When law enforcement officials began to question his whereabouts on the night of Hansen’s murder, Mr. Woodall told several conflicting versions of where he was and what had taken place that evening. After this, law enforcement discovered several other pieces of evidence that linked Mr. Woodall to the murder and rape of Miss Hansen.
The news of a break-in that left a Windsor woman dead made the headlines on December 11 2014. She was later identified as 31 years old Cassandra Kaake, a 7 ½ months pregnant expectant (CBC News 2017a). During the investigation, the crime unit identified her murderer as 28 years old Matthew Brush from LaSalle, Ontario (Windsor Star 2017). Upon further investigation, it was revealed that on the night of December 10 2014, Brush broke into Kaake’s home with the intent to steal her underwears and masturbate, an obsession he’s had since his teen years (CBC News 2017a). The perpetrator's lack of self control over his obsession and his actions following his discovery lead to the loss of this young soul.
The Murder of Brandy Vittrekwa. Most people do not realize how many Indigenous women go missing or murdered every year. It is said that the average age, or the median age of victims, is usually 29 years old. In 2016 about 5,712 cases were filed, but many were and were not really investigated. It says in the MMIW/G report, “The National Crime Information Center reports that, in 2016, there were 5,712 reports of missing American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls, though the US Department of Justice’s federal missing persons database, NamUs, only logged 116 cases.”
A friend of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, the first of the victims to disappear, says she got an odd call a few days after the 25-year-old vanished in 2007. “ said she was at a whorehouse in Queens,” Sara Karnes tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue, on newsstands now. “I told him she would never go for that, because she was independent. He goes, ‘Well, that’s where I saw her.’ And he described her to a T to me.”
We live in a society that has increasingly demoralizes love, depicting it as cruel, superficial and full of complications. Nowadays it is easy for people to claim that they are in love, even when their actions say otherwise, and it is just as easy to claim that they are not when they indeed are. Real love is difficult to find and keeping it alive is even harder, especially when one must overcome their own anxieties and uncertainties to embrace its presence. This is the main theme depicted in Russell Banks’ short story “Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story,” as well as in Richard Bausch’s “The Fireman’s Wife.” These narratives, although similar in some ways, are completely different types of love stories.
Sarah and Angelina Grimke The Civil Rights Movement gave freedom and rights to the African Americans who were being denied them. During this time period there were many people who greatly impacted this movement. Two of those people were Sarah and Angelina Grimke. The two sisters played a very important role in the Civil Rights Movement by campaigning for the abolition of slavery . Together, Sarah and Angelina Grimke inspired people all around the nation to join the North in abolishing slavery by publishing powerful pieces of writing and delivering eloquent speeches which included personal stories of their experiences with slavery from their childhood.
Robert William (Willy) Pickton is the most notorious killer Canada has ever seen and arguably the most ruthless the world has witnessed. The now sixty eight year old is convicted of six first degree murders but expected to be responsible for forty-nine or more. With a span of killings from 1983 to 2002 he raped and murdered only women specifically prostitutes in the area of Vancouver and Port Coquitlam. The Pickton's case was hard enough to think about but it had a very strange and bizarre twist, he fed the victims to his pigs. From Pickton's psychotic mind from a troubled childhood to the flaws in our past forensics and policing Robert Pickton's case and story is the most bizzare but interesting backbone for today's law enforcement and forensics.
“The Return of Girl” Girl; a simple word with a very complex definition. In the essay “The Return of Girl” written by Darryl McGrath, McGrath gives readers a lot of different scenarios where the word “girl” is used and different ways the word “girl” is defined. After analyzing these examples of the word “girl”, one would infer that there is a sense of disapproval. For example, McGrath quotes a statement made by James Peterson a social linguist at the University of Pennsylvania that states “Among many black women, “girl” is a sign of inclusion and acceptance among friends. The word remains offensive, if used by whites toward black women, or if directed at black women by anyone outside of their immediate speech community” (Page 373).
Pickton's crimes were characterized by their brutality and savageness. He would lure women to his pig farm in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, where he would repeatedly
“Missing Women” “Missing Women” by. June Spence is told from the perspective of a town where three women, a mother, her daughter, and her daughter’s friend. They left everything purses, cars, and even their medicine. The next door neighbors cleaned up the mess. The entire town has its own idea of what happened to the three girls.
The author is Sarah Weeks. Heidi is the main character in the story. She is a twelve and a half year old girl who lives with her mentally disabled mother and is being raised by her agoraphobic neighbor, Bernadette. Due to the circumstances, she is being homeschooled by Bernadette. Heidi is depicted as being wise, kind, and curious.
The now 26 year-old Fort St. James native was described as a “normal teenager” who was athletic, played hockey and belonged to the ski and snowboard team (Hager, 2011). He spent his free time hunting or fishing with his grandfather or on his own, and it was claimed that he enjoyed this activity very much (Hager, 2011). Legebokoff was liked by his peers, he had a loving family and to the public knowledge, a normal childhood (Hager, 2011). Contrastingly, Legebokoff had no known close friendships, and he had not ever retained a steady significant other until recently (he was in a newer relationship) and he was known to be sexually promiscuous, having 25 sexual partners by age 20 (Blatchford, 2014c). The local police claimed him to be unknown to them, if anything, only possessing a minor criminal record, but has no standing criminal charges (The Canadian Press, 2014).
The Case Between 1975 and 1981 a man who became known as the ‘Yorkshire Ripper’ left at least 23 children motherless when he brutally murdered more than a dozen women in the North of England, and attempted to murder seven more. The victims were mostly prostitutes, but some were just ordinary girls (O 'Gara, 2006). The search for the ‘Ripper’ was one of the biggest investigations ever undertaken by a British police force and pre-dated the use of computers (Yorkshire Ripper, 2013). Because of the large scale of the case, this report will focus on just some of the investigative strategies used and some of the mistakes the police made. INVESTIGATIVE STRATEGIES
