n February of 1982 in Brooklyn, New York a woman was attacked by two men who were wearing masks. She was tied up, robbed, beaten and set on fire. She had survived the attack, but sustained multiple injuries, including injuries to her eyes. The victim believed her neighbor, Calvin Boyette, was one of the men who had assaulted her. She even pointed him out in a photo lineup.
Robert Sheldon murdered October 24th 1962 detectives are currently hunting the killers guided by an anonymous tip stating that the killers are headed for Texas. Through thorough investigation the murder weapon was identified as a knife or switchblade. Tulsa Police believe the killers to be 14 year old Ponyboy Curtis, and 16 year old Johnny Cade who went missing the night of the murder. Detectives believe the murder was an act of self defense as they found strands of dark hair matching that of Ponyboy Curtis. A water test ran by Tulsa police detectives show a high amount of fresh hair grease in the fountain in the park matching the description of Curtis even more.
Murder on a Sunday morning is a documentary assembled and directed by a French filmmaker Jean-Xavier de Lestrade. The documentary presents a case of a young boy who was wrongly convicted of a crime he didn’t commit. Brenton Butler, a 15-year-old boy, was charged with shooting and killing Mary Ann Stephens, a 65-year-old tourist woman, in a parking lot in Jacksonville, Florida on May 7th, 2000 (De Lestrade, 2001). In an attempt to protect their image and not scare away tourists, the Jacksonville police officers carried out a hasty arrest which led to the prosecution of the wrong suspect. 15 minutes after Mrs. Stephens was shot dead while walking with her husband, the police hurried and picked the first black suspects who happened to be available.
Mr. Miller should be found guilty of second degree murder for murdering his wife, Mrs. Miller. There are many inconsistencies in his story as well as evidence supporting that he murdered his wife. Mr. Miller called the police at 6:02pm saying his wife screamed at 5:35pm and found her face down in the grass. If that is the case, then what did Mr. Miller do in the half hour before calling the police? When the police got there they heard him unlock the back door which would be unlocked from Mrs. Miller running out back.
It’s Sunday and it’s the Clutter’s funeral. School is cancelled so all of the kids may go to the funeral. Over a thousand people attend the Clutter funeral. As Susan Kidwell stood there and stared at her best friend, Nancy Clutter, she couldn’t help herself from crying.
Roy Brown 1992 Murder & Exoneration Case The United States currently has the most incarcerated people in the world. Most do not know that there are more than two million people currently incarcerated in U.S. prisons. It is estimated that around 2.3% - 5 % of those prisoners are actually innocent. If the number was just one percent, that would mean that 20,000 people currently imprisoned are innocent (Ferner). Roy Arthur Brown, a father of three and guitar teacher from New York, was one of those 20,000+ people that were falsely imprisoned.
Murder. It is a nasty word. To take a life is one of the worst possible crimes one can commit. Nonetheless, people still do it. The Rae Carruth murder trial was one of the most highly publicized cases in 1999.
In the event of homicide, there is criteria that sections voluntary and involuntary manslaughter, and different degrees of murder. When an individual is charged with murder, it is not uncommon, in the right situation, for the charge to be acquitted and replaced with voluntary manslaughter. This was the string of events following up to Kimberly Cunningham’s conviction. Amanda Cunningham and her brother were victims of rape ensued by their uncle, Coy Hundley. In finding out these events took place, Kimberly vowed to protect her loved ones.
Innocence is is a lack of guilt, with respect to any kind of crime, or wrongdoing. In a legal context, innocence refers to the lack of legal guilt of an individual, with respect to a crime. Being convicted of a crime and found not guilty later on can frustrate the convict and the convict’s family as the time spent behind bars, is time they will never get back. James Richardson was convicted and charged for murder and rape in Cross Lanes, West Virginia on May 18, 1989. First, Richardson noticed the neighbor’s house burning.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you are here because one person in this courtroom decided to take law into her own hands. The defendant, Mrs. Dominique Stephens, murdered the man that she vowed to love. This sole act by the defendant is violation of all morals and her husband’s right to live. Afterwards, she even felt guilty about this violation of justice and called the cops on herself, and she later signed a written statement stating that she is guilty of the murder of Mr. Donovan Stephens. Then the defendant later recanted this statement and said that she only killed Mr. Stephens in self defense.
The definition of murder is; the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another, so if the deceased wasn’t directly impacted by another human being would the death still be murder? The brother of William Armstrong can not be held accountable for his brothers death. Mr. Armstrong’s brother was a great encouragement to William. He always pushed him to go past his comfort zone. When William said “No, I can’t walk”, his brother told him “... yes you can Doodle, all you gotta do is try.”
On October 20, 2014, LaQuan Mcdonald was shot 16 times by law enforcement after being seen holding a knife. Although he was carrying a knife, video evidence showed that McDonald was in no way posing a threat to the responding officers. After the murder, the McDonald family revealed that LaQuan suffered from PTSD and complex mental health problems. However, there is no education for police officers on how to respond to people with disabilities or injuries. I am not justifying the murder of LaQuan McDonald, but I am trying to justify why defunding the police will only hurt our society more with the few requirements needed to become an officer.
The Zodiac Killer: The History Throughout history there have been millions of serial killers like Ted Bundy, Jeffery Dahmer, and John Wayne Gacy, but nobody is as influential as the Zodiac Killer. The Zodiac Killer has become known as one of the most well known serial killers and for good reason. Background Information The Zodiac’s murders took place in Northern California over a span from 1968 to the early and mid parts of the 1970’s.
Jeffrey Dahmer ~was born in 1960, Jeffrey’s father was not around much because of his job. When Jeffrey was at the age of four he was diagnosed with a double hernia. The operation scared him letting doctors explore his body. His experience is said to have marked his subconscious forever. He became very insular and lacking in self-confidence.
. Christie’s detective world is very much a product of the post World War I ‘modernist’ cynicism which also rendered in humans, a sense of introspection. As Poirot says, “It is the brain, the little grey cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within, not without.”
