On the 9th of October, Robert Sheldon was found lying on the tainted red grass of Oak Park. The park was described to be “about two blocks square, with a fountain in the middle and a small swimming pool for little kids.” Police investigators ran through a body analysis showing Sheldon was stabbed by a switchblade around two-thirty in the morning. Hours later after the body was found, police went around asking Sheldon’s family and friends. Three kids, who are witnesses say Ponyboy Curtis and Johnny Cade were responsible.
Eyewitness accounts play a huge role in general in trials and verdicts, but may be unreliable many times, with certain views placed on evidence provided by children. Unreliability may arise from not being able to recount the identity of the accused, the actions and speech occurring during that time, the relationship of individuals towards the person in question, and many
Working towns across the Old West had high homicide rates due to all the gambling, drinking, disorderly conduct. In Annual Homicide Rates per 100,000 people produced by David T. Courtwright in Violent Land, 1996, it shows that Leadville, CO had 105 deaths per 100,000 people while Philadelphia, PA 1860-1880 had 3.2 per 100,000 people. Leadville, CO was a mining town where the first promising mining discovery occurred. Most mining camps had no law enforcement since miners were competing against each other for gold. The intense rivalry frequently led to violence.
Just a few days ago Robert “Bob” Sheldon, 18, was pronounced dead at the local park fountain in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The police investigated the crime scene and concluded the cause of death was stab wounds in the abdomen. We can determine Bob and his friend David attempted murder on Ponyboy Curtis, 14, and Johnny Cade, 16. Ponyboy and Johnny have now been confirmed suspects in the case.
What decision-making methods were utilized in the case? According to Charles E. Lindblom, there are two types of decision-making methods: the root method and the branch method. The root method, which he also calls he rational-comprehensive method, is an approach to decision-making where an individual chooses an objective and ranks all the relevant values in obtaining the objective. The person making the decision must “formulate many possible alternatives to achieve the stated objective.” This type of method is heavily based upon theory.
Also known as the “Genesee River Killer” Shawcross killed 11 women and 2 children before being sent to prison for life. He was sent to prison for the murder of 8 year old Karen Hill in 1972. Although police were sure that he had murdered young Jack Blake as well they were unable to convict him on this crime due to lack of evidence. Although sentenced to 25 years he served less than 15 years before being released.
VICTIM OF THE GOLDEN STATE KILLER Tasha Smith South University VICTIM OF THE GOLDEN STATE KILLER The Golden State Killer was a serial killer and rapist that terrorized the state of California in the 1970’s and 1980’s. “Former police officer Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, was arrested at his home Tuesday after DNA linked him to crimes attributed to the so-called Golden State Killer and he initially was charged with eight counts of murder and could face dozens more charges, authorities said” (Thompson and Melley, 2018). DeAngelo is suspected of being responsible for at least twelve (12) killings and fifty (50) rapes during this time period. He targeted women between the ages of 13-41 by sneaking into their homes as they slept.
Being that there was such a need to increase law enforcement and the amount of guards in the prison system there was a need to make sure there was enough funding to have enough prisons to avoid the possibility of overcrowding. The bill allocated $9.9 billion, including $7.9 billion to build state prisons for violent offenders, and $1.8 billion to states for jailing criminal illegal immigrant (US Department of Justic,1993). When hearing the conditions of the act one can presume the amount of crime taking place would decrease (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco& Firearms June,16,1996). During the late 1980’s there were many high-profile cases of violent crime that spread rapidly throughout the United States. One example includes The 101 California Street Shooting.
Murder on a Sunday Morning, is an Oscar award-winning documentary that tells of the conviction and trial of 15-year-old Brenton Butler for the death of Mary Ann Stephens in Jacksonville, Florida of May 2000. The film is a 111-minute movie directed by Jean-Xavier de Lastrade. The plot originates from the incident of Mary Ann Stephens being shot in the head by a black assailant; and then begins to unravel as Brenton Butler is arrested 90 minutes after the murder has occurred. Pat McGuinness, one of the main interviewees in the movie, takes up the case and defends Brenton Butler. The documentary presents the film from the trial, as well as interviews and investigations that Pat McGuinness and his partner Ann Finnel performed to gather facts for
The Murder Trial of Biggie Smalls Rathbone, William Unit 7 Assignment CJ 101 Wallace Biggie was one of the most powerful rappers before getting murdered in drive by shooting in March of 1997. At time he was killed the police had many theories of why he got murdered on that day. The police had multiple suspects about who did it but wasn’t sure of who or why they murdered Biggie Smalls. On that day Biggie was on his way to the hotel from the music party. When his SUV came up to the stop light, he could hear someone call his name, so he rolled his back window down to see who that’s when he was shot multiple times in the torso and then the suspects drove away from the murder.
The video starts in a desert like setting. The sky is baby blue surrounded by high rising mountains. There’s an open road where Kylie Jenner rides a silver platinum, estimated three hundred-thousand-dollar Bentley to a motel. There she’s listening to music and looking at herself in the car visor mirror applying her lip gloss called Glosses. After she applies the lip gloss, she sits back in the car when the scene cuts into the motel with a woman walking around a room.
Summary A mass shooting in a rural Texas church killed three generations of the Holcombe family. Crystal Holcomb and her three children Megan, Emily, and Greg were killed. Crystal was also eight months pregnant. Crystal’s cousin told the Associated Press and when the authorities released the list of victims her unborn child Carlin Brite “Billy Bob” Should the death of an unborn child should be treated as a murder?
From the recent case of the Connecticut shooting, this article explains how there is an increase of demand in the state of Dallas for high powered guns due to the Government speculated to impose a strict no gun law . The problem is the decrease in supply causing excess demand which then creates a shortage in the market. This problem can be visualised through the means of a negative externality graph. Before the incident, the price point of guns lie at point Qe.
Someone may wonder who was the first ever serial killer. Did he do it for fun or did he do it out of anger? Was all of this on purpose or an accident? No one will ever know the real reason why H.H. Holmes killed many innocent people. The unsolved case of H. H. Holmes has multiple theories as to why some say it's unsolved and some say it's solved.
I decided to go with a murder investigation article because there is a lot of pieces of dialogue that people have either said or things that the police have found out and those arguments both have inductive and deductive reasoning. This article talks about a murder in Stockport where two people were arrested under the suspicion of murder of stabbing a 45-year-old victim. First, this article has inductive reasoning when it states “‘ We know there was an altercation that took place in the street…’”. This quotation is saying that there was an altercation in the street which they think lead to the murder. The altercation could have been anything, maybe a little shoving and pushing.
