On 3-19-16, Highway Patrolman Jeremiah Byrd had a traffic stop. The vehicle was occupied by the alleged perpetrators and the alleged victims. The children were in restraint in the maroon Chevrolet Suburban 1500, traveling East on I10, near the mile marker 61. Judith gave the officer a Texas ID card, and it was suspended. Ramiro also have a driver license to the officer.
Jim Simmerman, the writer of “Child’s Grave, Hale County, Alabama,” was born on March 5, 1952 in Bolder, Colorado. Simmerman spent the most of his childhood traveling since his father was in the military. In 1978, he became an instructor at Northern Arizona University. He then left to earn a master’s degree at the University of Iowa, but he came back to continue his previous job. On June 29, 2009, Simmerman killed himself because of a debilitating illness he had (Bruner para.
Bath, N.Y. (WENY) -- In a few days Thomas Clayton will be sentenced for his role in orchestrating his wife 's death. However on Thursday, the attorney for the convicted murderer made his first motion for a new trial. Thomas Clayton appeared in a dark green prison jumpsuit, shackled at his hands and feet, as his attorney Ray Schlather argued against the expert testimony of cell phone analyst Sy Ray. Schalther said the jury got it wrong
The prosecutors in the Wayne Williams case presented evidence and witnesses in the case. None of the witnesses, in this case, witnessed Wayne Williams commit any murders. The witnesses were there to testify about what they noticed Wayne Williams do, that was not normal or unusual. The testimony which was the most damaging was Angelo Foster who was a former press secretary to the mayor. He gave information about a conversation that he had with the defendant’s father.
A detective who discovered the remains of Pitezel’s three children became ill, the warden at Moyamensing prison later committed suicide. The priest who had delivered Holmes last rites died of mysterious causes. The district attorney’s office burnt down, eerily enough a picture of Holmes fully intact was found among the charred remains of the building (Corey, 2013). The suspicious circumstances that surrounded the case of H.H. Holmes became known as the Holmes Curse. Holmes old office building which was turned into a post office burnt down shortly after being raided by police.
Steven Avery and his lawyers take action upon justifying his declaration of guiltlessness. Steven asserts the officers "set him up," when he was interrogated after being told he was not a suspect. Actions taken in the investigation of Teresa's death resulted in finding an essential in Steven's residence, EDTA test being done, and log documentation of officers. Since Steven's home was inspected, a key linked to Teresa's Rav 4 was found.
Steven Avery returned to his family in 2003 after being exonerated for the 1985 rape and assault of a woman, Penny Beerntsen, in his home county Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. He had already served 18 years in prison for the crime. New DNA evidence proved him innocent. He's welcomed back by his family and friends and also with the full attention of media and state politicians.
One evening, a woman, Hae Min Lee was killed in the city of Baltimore in 1999. Apparently, Hae Min Lee’s ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed has been convicted, and has since been sentenced to life in prison, for the past 15 years. For fifteen years, he maintains to be innocent to this day. The perpetrator of Hae Min Lee’s murder is done by a third-party with the assistance of Jay, because Adnan was seen elsewhere at the time when Hae was supposedly killed.
Roger Taney played a vital role with the tension between the north and the south based on the decision he made with the Dread Scott case. Because of Taney’s decision, he led many conflicts such as the free or slave black person, the Missouri Compromise, and lastly the conflict between the north and the south idea on slavery. Taney believed that blacks could not be considered Citizens in the United States because of their race. He states “there are two clauses in the constitution which point directly and specifically to the negro race as a separate class of persons, and show clearly that they were not regarded as a portion of the people or citizens of the government then formed”(Dread Scott v. Sandford). Since no black person could be free
"A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial" by Suzanne Lebsock is a compelling and thought-provoking book that explores the murder of Lucy Pollard, a white woman, in 1895 in rural Virginia. The book offers a detailed examination of the trial and the events that followed, shedding light on the complexities of race, gender, and justice in the American South during this time period. The author retells the events leading up to the murder, the investigation, and the trial. The book offers insight into the legal system at the time, including the role of juries, the prosecution and defense, and the role of the press.
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.
Furthermore, he describes the people as “shabbier English types.” He goes on by saying that the dead man was just a “shoemaker,” His thoughts towards the funeral were like if it was a “serious comedy” taken in hand by the classes who are “socially unpresented in Parliament,” which shows that he looks down on them.
In the gruesome short story “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allen Poe a nameless narrator tells his story of his drunken and moody life before he gets hung the next day. The intoxicated narrator kills his favorite cat, Pluto and his wife with an axe. Soon enough, the narrator gets caught and there he ends up, in jail. Although, most readers of “The Black Cat” have argued the narrators insanity, more evidence have shown that he is just a moody alcoholic with a lousy temper.
The narrator is confined to his path of madness and drunkenness. The narrator’s irritation gets worse, and he attempts to kill the new cat. His wife interjects, and the narrator kills his wife in anger. He chooses to hide his wife’s body in the walls of the cellar.
The cat also was buried with the wife. “I had walled the monster up within the tomb” (Poe 524). In the story “The Fall of the House of Usher” the narrator, a boyhood friend of Rodrick
