In the ESPN article, “Jury convicts Becker of murder,” it shares the news of the conviction of Mark Becker and tells more of the story behind the murder of Ed Thomas. Jurors, rejecting Mark Becker's pleas of not guilty by reason of insanity, was found guilty in the shooting of his high school football coach. Becker explained to psychiatrists that after months of torment, he shot Thomas at least six times in the high school weight room, then kicked his body before walking away. The article states that Jurors heard about Becker's delusions, how he believed that the community was against him and that Ed Thomas Applington-Parkersburg coach was satan. The defense claimed that Becker's delusions were so severe that he didn't know right from wrong.
Christopher Abernathy from Illinois was falsely convicted for murder, rape and robbery at the age of 17. The person who he was convicted of murdering was Kristina Hickey. He was taken in for questioning after someone he knew, Allan Dennis, said Abernathy confessed to killing Hickey. There was no forensic or physical evidence that connected him to the crime. It was committed in 1984 and Abernathy was convicted in 1987.
Bancroft hurried across to London …took out the proper insurance before the news went public. The profits shared by the two men…approximately £10,000,” and this helps to reinforce the idea that the two were in it together. This ordeal caused Deane a lot of hardships which was one of the
On Sunday, November 13, 1842 a double murder occurred at Smith Farm in Old Fields, Long Island. The victims, Alexander Smith and and Rebecca Smith, were a wealthy, well- respected married couple who ran Smith farm. George Weeks, the Smiths farmhand, was reporting for work the monday after the murder and heard the dog barking from the work-shed by the Smiths house. George Weeks then became suspicious since the dog was usually inside with Mr. Smith. George then looked in the house and saw that the east room window was broken and Mr. and Mrs. Smith were lying on the floor covered in blood.
There have been ten long-unsolved slayings of young women in Los Angeles in the 1940, who all had some type of cut mark on their body. Dr. George Hodel was a surgeon which makes him a leading suspect. “In February 2013, the team conducted an extensive search of the doctor's home, where Buster (detection dog) had previously detected the scent of human decomposition in several areas of the basement, according to reports.” The doctor was known to have had a room in his home which was locked off and no one except him was allowed in. Since Dr. Hodel is a surgeon he would have knowledge of how to make the incisions on Short’s body and how to clean up the blood from the body.
Classical movies/films are those everyone loves throughout the generations, sending a universal message. One being the film Young Frankenstein, a comedy based on the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, Dr. Frankenstein. In this film a scientist named Frankenstein refuses to take on his families name and inventions, but later on become obsessed with the information he found in one of his grandfather’s scientific experiments which he mimics and brings life into a human body using an abnormal brain. The 1974 story was written by Gene Wilder, Mary Shelley and directed by Mel brooks and produced by Michael Gruskoff, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp, its main purpose was to show that one should be careful of how they use science, and that they should
This paper explores four published articles that have been written about Dr. Harold Fredrick Shipman. He was a general practitioner with his own thriving single practice, though he was very abrasive, and aggressive at times says John Gunn (2010). These articles include detailed reports describing Dr. Shipman’s criminal actions, how he committed the crimes, the process of his arrest, his trial and punishment for the crimes. All of the sources declare that Dr. Shipman murdered two-hundred and fifteen people, and that it can be proven, but most sources believe he killed two-hundred and sixty, if not more. He killed his victims using injections of heroin, by giving them large amounts he was able to kill them slowly.
For the past few years Amanda Knox, Kertcher’s roommate, had been accused of her murder. (Amanda Knox Murder a Conviction Overturned) In Rafael sollecitos' apartment, Amanda Knox’s ex boyfriend, there was a kitchen knife with both Knox’s and Kertcher’s DNA on it. With this being the only evidence investigators had, Amanda and Raffial were thrown in jail. (How much does Italy owe Amanda Knox?
In cinema nowadays, movies that are more famous among the people somehow engaged with explosions, gunfights, and superheroes. In the early days of cinema, the special spot for people had to do something with monsters and murderers. Some of these monsters have abilities to be sympathetic to the people who watch the movie. As a great example there is the movie Frankenstein. Dr. Frankenstein’s invention, is a monster that is created by an obnoxious scientist who decides to play god and it goes wrong.
“That wouldn’t make him a killer,” Detective Wallace said, wanting to laugh, instead, he asked, “What else did he say?” When she said refused to pay him, do you know what the gardener said?” She asked, raising her voice. “What did he say?” Detective Wallace asked.
People, who are different, are often ostracized for being themselves and are considered outcasts. For example, the movie, Edward Scissorhands, is a story about a young man, who had scissors for hands. Based on his appearance, people were scared of him. They thought he would try to hurt them. Not many people tried to get to know him, but almost everyone made negative assumptions about him.
Investigation on the Double Murder of Holmes and Dr. Watson The queen of mystery novels, Agatha Christie, once said, “Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions”. No matter how perfect the crime is, as long as it is man-conducted, there is always a solution. On Saturday May 21, 1892, Holmes and Watson were found dead near Glasgow's shipyards.
For the majority of my life I have lived blindly. I think most people often do. We go about our daily life oblivious of what our actions actually mean. Humans are extraordinarily complex creatures and it is bewildering how little most people actually know about themselves, myself included. However, Douglas Kenrick’s Sex, Murder and the Meaning of Life provided insight explaining the depths of my actions.
“Killings” written by Andre Dubus is focused on the main character and protagonist Matt Fowler. Matt is the father of three known children in the story, Cathleen, Steve, and his youngest, Frank. Matt had his children with his wife and business partner Ruth Fowler. In the beginning of the story Matt is laying his youngest son, Frank, to rest in the cemetery after he was brutally murdered by the story’s main antagonist, Richard Strout. At the time of his death, Frank was in school and majoring in economics (63) and had a very bright future ahead of him, after all, he was only twenty eight years old.
American political philosopher and Harvard professor, Michael Sandel, provides hypothetical examples to describe the two moral reasonings for murder, which become evident in the ideology behind stoning. The lecture, “The Moral Side of Murder” by Michael Sandel explores the moral principles of consequentialist and categorical moral reasoning. Through the analyzation that Sandel provides between these two principles, the audience is able to obtain a deeper understanding of the initial thought process a person possess when death becomes a possible solution to a problem. In Sandel’s lecture, consequentialism is used to describe scenarios that benefit the majority, as he states, “The first moral principle emerged from the discussion said that the
