On a cool day in Salt Lake City Utah, Gary "Green River Killer" Ridgway was born. July 7th 1982 was a day that would start the change of history in forensic science, this was the day waitress Amina Agisheff would leave for work and never be found alive again. This event started a killing spree that stretched potentially 19 grueling years. The very next day Ridgway kills Wendy Coffield a runaway teen. About one month later Debra Estes reported a man in a blue and white pickup truck who offered the girl a lift but then brandished a pistol and forced her to pleasure him sexually.
On January 13, 1977, Gary was caught robbing a home in Lake Placid, New York. For 3rd degree larceny, Gary was sentenced to 4 years in state prison, he was held at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York. When Gary was 25, he was caught with stolen items, worth a couple hundred dollars, and was sent back to jail because he was still out on parole for not serving the remaining 2 years of his sentence. He was brought to Old Rensselaer County Jail in downtown Troy, New York. He was placed in solitary confinement because with the help of some Hell’s Angels, he escaped, but was picked up about 5 hours after he escaped and brought back to the jail.
In September of 1961, a woman from District of Columbia had an intruder break into her apartment. While the invader of the home was there, they had taken her wallet, and also raped the woman. During the investigation of the crime, the police had found some latent fingerprints in the apartment. The police then established and processed the prints. The prints were then connected back to 16 year old Morris A. Kent.
Stephen Louis Sax, also known as Steve Sax, is a former American second baseman in Major League Baseball, MLB. He made his debut as a Los Angeles Dodger (Wikipedia, 2015). Sax was born in Sacramento, California on January 29, 1960. He has been a resident of Northern California almost all of his life. He returned to Northern California after offseason and when his baseball career came to an end.
Gary Paulsen is a well known, famous writer. Paulsen was born on May 17, 1939. He lived with his grandmother and aunts for many years. When Paulsen was six he brought a book home for the first time and read it through the end without stopping. By the time Paulsen was seven he had written many short stories.
The name Jeffrey Dahmer flooded the minds of the nation with trepidation and terror. He was a man that could not be understood by society. Dahmer was a heartless, psychotic murderer who took the lives of innocent people. No one knew when he would strike again, but when he did it would be inhumane and ruthless. He is one of the most prolific, yet disturbing criminals in history.
Bobby Richardson is an ordinary name but it's someone with not so ordinary skills. Bobby Richardson was a young boy with potential he was the best second basemen ever. First off, he was a 8 time all star, 3 time world series,5 time golden glove, And a World Series MVP. He was the best of his time and I claim he was the best second baseman in the American MLB in the 1960’s. Let's start off with his golden glove award and a little bit about him.
With the controversy in Truscott's case that had helped spur the country to abolish the capital punishment in 1976 was starting to become bigger than it already was because people were starting to come together in the fight to help the wrongful convicted. This included a group of Lawyers in the association in Defense of the Wrongfully Convicted, who works together to establish the innocence of wrongfully convicted individuals, who were wanting to assist on a new trial to prove the innocence of Steven Truscott. In March 2000, after decades of staying quiet, he went public for the first time to publicly proclaim his innocence in a documentary broadcast on the CBC's The Fifth Estate which unveiled new evidence on the investigation of Harper's
The world's first autobiographer and Roman poet, Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace), states, “life is largely a matter of expectation”. The idea that success comes from high expectations has been evident since 65 B.C., and is still a common argument in 2017. When Wes Moore is meeting with his incarcerated acquaintance, who is also named Wes Moore, the two are discussing where their life stories diverged. Both had similar upbringings, neither with a father figure, but with different support systems. The author Wes Moore, who was sent to military school as a teenager, is now a successful and highly regarded entrepreneur.
Intro #1 Imagine a man, going to bed after working hard for civil rights and his religion. He goes to sleep and in the night, the police sneak in and place bombs in his windowsill. The night is quiet and peaceful, serene, when an explosion occurs in the nearby church. People rush outside, hostile and armed, worried about their religious and civil rights leader. Then, he rises out of the rubble, unscathed, almost as though he was protected with holy intervention.
Have you ever had to comfort your bully, or struggled to talk to your crush? Well in this book, Nick hall has those problems. And learns many things in the process. Booked, a verse novel by Kwame Alexander. Nick Hall a student in middle school struggles to talk to his crush April, and is scared of confronting his bullies, learns how to improve in his problems, but goes through many obstacles on the way.
Jackie Robinson, The Dark Destroyer, The Colored Comet, Jackie the Robber. He was the first African American baseball player to play in the M.L.B. I chose to do my report on Jackie Robinson because I thought that he was very interesting and different. He was a baseball legend in my book. I have heard his name a bunch of times, but I did not know anything about him. Jackie Robinson was born on January 31, 1919, in Rural Georgia.
On January 5th, 1993 at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, Westley Allan Dodd was executed by hanging for the killing of three boys, ages four, ten and eleven. Dodd became the first prisoner to be hanged in the United States since 1965, when two inmates were executed in Kansas (Egan). Before The Governor of Washington suspended the death penalty in 2014, the State of Washington executed 78 prisoners between the years 1904 and 2010 (WA DOC). Westley
Statement of intent “Simon”, is a short story created by myself, which follows the proceeds of an “average day” for an individual named Simon. This character is initially presented as recluse and ordinary, and as my narrative progresses, so too does Simon's personality. Through specific literary devices, I was able to comment on the topic of change. More specifically, the process of undertaking change, public opinions on stagnation and whether drastic change is in fact a good thing. I have written “Simon”, in the point of view of Third Person limited.
Don Mccullin is a British photojournalist, known for his war photographs and his images of urban strife. He was born in October the 9th, 1935, Finsbury Park, London, England. McCullin’s career began in 1959, when he took a photo of a local London Gang, after he bought his first ever camera after he failed to pass his written theory paper to become a photographer in the RAF. Much later, turned his photographs into landscape and still life. Kevin Carter was a South-African photojournalist and a member of the Bang-Bang Club.
