Vernon Evans Evans was sentence the death for because, in 1984, he was convicted and sentenced to death together with drug kingpin Anthony Grandison for the 1983 murders of Susan Kennedy and David Scott Piechowicz and his wife Cheryl (Susan Kennedy's sister) had been scheduled to testify against Grandison at trial on federal drug charges Anthony Grandison
In 1836, the gruesome death of a prostitute encaptivated the public eye and began a newspaper frenzy that centered on a morbid fixation of the life and death of Helen Jewett. Patricia Cline Cohen's The Murder of Helen Jewett pieces together the facts of Helen's life and death in an attempt to describe gender inequality in America by giving a meticulous account of life in the 1830s. (Insert small biography) Around three in the morning on Sunday, April 10, 1836 Rosina Townsend, the madam of the brothel, was spurred from her bed at the south end of Thomas St by a man knocking on the front door.
A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial By Suzanne Lebsock ((New York: W.W. Norton, 2003) Suzanne Lebsock is a historic author that enjoys digging into the past events of the American South. When Suzanne finds something interesting she dives into the history of the event and creates a historic fiction novel, that includes her own ideas and historical facts. Suzanne Lebsock has created more works of art like, “Visible Women: New Essays on American Activism”, “A Share of Honour”, “The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town”, and finally, “A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial”. “A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial” takes place in Lunenburg, Virginia in the year of 1895, where a white woman,
Before the boys ran away to the Church in Windrixville, Johnny Cade was wanted for the murder of Bob Sheldon. Ponyboy was wanted as an accomplice in the murder of Bob Sheldon. Police have sorted through all of the evidence of the scene at the water fountain and through the rubble of the Windrixville Community Church. They have also interrogated multiple witnesses including Cherry Valance and Randy Anderson.
Antoine Thomas was the eyewitness who tipped police on the identity of the murderer who killed Luis Cruz, and it was Arthur Bauer. When the police showed up to take Arthur away, Paul seized his chance to stand up to his monstrous elder brother Erik. So, he informed the police that not only was Arthur involved with the murder, but that Erik had given the order to kill,“I saw—I heard Erik Fisher tell him to do it.” In addition to Paul being able to slip the cold and unforgiving grasp of his elder brother, but also to gain the astrayed attention that had been directed at his superstar brother. Now his dad who had been too busy to witness any of his soccer games finally pays attention to his son and even drives him to his first day of school.
Karla Faye Tucker killed two people in 1983. Tucker confessed to the crime, and was executed in 1998. The interesting thing about Tucker’s case, however, is that she claimed to have turned her life around while in prison. She was no longer using drugs, had found religion, and had even gotten married. But none of this was enough to change her sentencing from execution to life in prison.
In Janet Malcolm’s book the Journalist and the Murderer uses element of nonfiction where it gives an observation of the relationship between writer Joe McGinnis and convicted murder Jeffery Macdonald. The elements that Malcolm focuses on through out the paper include the characterization on how McGinnis acted towards MacDonald to earn his trust and change his view of the story; as well as MacDonald as a character himself and McGinnis character no longer having a connection to his subject. Malcolm also focuses on the element, scene versus exposition through out the piece to help give her analysis between the two people as she becomes more involved with the journalist and the Murderer. The characters of MacDonald and McGinnis as told
Ronnie Kray shot and murdered George Cornell, a partner of the Richardsons, pioneers of an opponent posse, at the Blind Beggar bar in Whitechapel on 9 March 1966. Ronnie was savoring another bar when he learned of Cornell 's area. He ran there with his sibling 's driver John Dickson and his partner Ian Barrie yet murdered Cornell alone. There are varying intentions offered for the homicide: Cornell 's position as a pioneer of a contradicting group; Cornell was debilitating the Krays; he had already offended Kray; Cornell was thought to have a section in the homicide of Ronnie 's previous partner, Richard Hart. Ronnie Kray was at that point experiencing neurotic schizophrenia at the season of the executing.
Robert Pickton seemed to murdered only the Eastside women which is the poorest neighborhood in BC (Newton, 2014). There was no pattern of Pickton choosing the victims, they seem to be missing randomly and suddenly. One of the victim name Stephanie Lane’s family shared there feeling towards Pickton’s murder case (CBC News, 2015). Stephanie’s DNA was founded on Pickton’s farm in 2003. However, Stephanie’s evidence could not proceed in the trial due to small amount of blood found.
Mr. Giles Corey, one of the most upstanding members of our community, has been allegedly accused of withholding information from the official courts. He “...has six hundred acres, and timber in addition….” (Miller 1316). Mr. Giles Corey is over an astounding eighty years of age and in no condition whatsoever to be held in the jailhouse. His third wife in this lifetime, Goody Martha Corey, has been accused as a witch.
Arthur J. Shawcross, a notorious serial killer, claimed to have had a very troubled childhood. Without facts to support, he alleges that he was sexually abused by his mother until he decided to run away in the ninth grade. Later, when Shawcross served in Vietnam, he claimed, although he had never served in combat, that he had beheaded a woman. Upon discharge from the U.S. Army, he returned to Watertown, New York. Arthur Shawcross would go on to murder fourteen year old, Jack Blake and eight year old, Karen Hill in 1971 and 1972 as well as eleven women from 1988 to 1989.
The coldness woke me up. My toes felt numb from the frigid December air and my body ached. I was in my studies, passed out after working on a few homicide cases that ultimately linked back to one guy. I sat up right, yawned, and stretched my arms out as wide as I could, knocking a few of my Archie’s Comics off the shelf and to the wooden floor. I’ll pick that up later.
The Pig Farmer Killer Robert Pickton, a highschool dropout who became a pig farmer, is one of the most notorious serial killers in modern history. He was born on October 24, 1949, in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada. From 1997 to 2002, Pickton carried out a killing spree in which he admitted to killing 49 people. However, He was only convicted for the murder of six women and charged with an additional 20 victims; 23 are unaccounted for. In addition, the typical profile of his victims were sex workers and drug addicts from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighborhood.
I and my fellow officers at JMPD(James Madison Police Department) were instructed to investigate the murder of Allen Ripley. From scouring the various articles of evidence and witness testimony we are of the firm belief that we have found the perpetrators. Mr. Ripley’s wife Autumn Ripley worked together with his business partner Matthew Piper and murdered Mr. Ripley on the night of July 10th, 2020, at approximately 11:00 P.M. We are sure of this from Witness statements, administered lie detector tests, and testimonies.
I stared out of the train window at passing grasses and trees. It was the end of the summer and everything seemed tired. The tree branches sagged with browning leaves drooping off of the thin wood and yellow grasses wilted under the waves of heat pounding down relentlessly from the sun. I was glad to be indoors, and while it was by no means cool in the train car, open windows provided a steady breeze that made the August heat bearable. I toyed with a stack of letters that sat in my lap, tied together with a single piece of twine.