On September 14th in jail, Mescosta County, prisoner Raymong Paul Holmes commited sucide by hanging himself from a rope. Holmes was arrested on August 29th for the operating a drug lab, first-degree retail fraud and possession of marijuana. His previous criminal record shows Holmes has been very active with charges varying from dosmestic-violence, operating intoxicated, use of a controlled substance to fourth-degree fleeing police and disorderly drunk. After a couple day of his arrest, the deputies where informed by Holmes family about his strong medical and psychological needs. He was reported to be mentally unstable and had suicidal ideations and theirfore he required additinal attention.
James Eagan Holmes was born on December 13, 1987. On July 20, 2012, James was murdered 12 people, and injured 70 people in the 2012 Aurora shooting. The shooting took place at a Century movie theatre in Aurora, Colorado. Mr. Holmes’s family had history with mental disorders like schizoaffective disorder, psychotic disorder, etc. James was very socially awkward, he also has thoughts of wishing people dead.
They then realized what they had discovered, they saw the torture chamber holmes used to kill his victims. Holmes was first charged with insurance scams and then later on he was charged for first degree murder of Benjamin Pitezel.
James Holmes did not live a normal childhood. He attempted suicide at a young age. He would see things starting at a young age that (although not actually there but they were in his mind) involved loud noises throughout the night and people fighting and killing each other with weapons and firearms. I think a stronger focus on James Holmes younger years could have helped out the defense a great deal and they didn’t really seem to focus on it that much during the
The question is, why did Holmes pick Chicago of all places? Why not somewhere else? Chicago was a place for H.H. Holmes to commit his crimes because the city had a growing population, it was going to host the World’s Columbian Exposition, and because Chicago was a selfish city. H.H. Holmes chose Chicago to commit his crimes
Abrams was a case under the repressive Espionage and Sedition Acts passed during World War I, the most outrageously unconstitutional violations of our civil liberties since the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts. The 1917-18 laws prohibited anything — including speech — that criticized the government, brought it into disrepute, and supposedly interfered with our war effort. The Supreme Court consistently upheld this legislation.
This is evident when Mrs. Lawrence, a tenant of Holmes’s, claims that after questioning Holmes for a few days following Emeline’s sudden departure from Chicago, “she became convinced that Holmes had killed Emeline.” Yet, Larson explains- despite this belief that Holmes was a potential murderer- neither Mrs. Lawrence or her husband for that matter, “made no effort to move from the building nor did they go to the police”; in fact, no one living in Holmes’s building
He attempted to build another ‘castle’ there, but there’s no word on whether or not it was actually built. In July of ‘94, Holmes was arrested for selling mortgaged goods in Missouri, but was bailed out rather promptly. While in jail though, Holmes had made conversation with a man named Mario Hedgepeth. Holmes had been planning on taking a $10,000 dollar insurance policy on his own life, and then faking his death. He offered Hedgepeth a $500 commision in exchange for the name of a lawyer who would help him carry out this plan.
Furthermore, Holmes did not keep the bodies of his victims like many other murderers, he found no gratification from it. What Holmes yearned for and felt pleasure from was feeling a sense of possession over his victims as they begged for mercy, and unfortunately once they died that feeling quickly dissipated. As a result, Holmes’s desire for power and control could never be fully satisfied and because of this he feels the need to kill again and again. After reading this passage I felt repulsed at the fact that Holmes murdered solely to gain pleasure from the sense of power and possession he felt. It is disgusting to envision Holmes standing there, with a menacing look on his face, enjoying the control he exerts over his victims as they die, slow, painful deaths.
H. Holmes had two main reasons for his crimes: monetary gain and pleasure. When Holmes went to Medical school at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor he discovered that he could monetize dead bodies (Martin). Holmes eventually began to use his medical expertise to prepare his victim’s bodies, and sell them to medical schools and labs (Hirschlag). But the monetary gain from selling the bodies was not enough to justify the risk associated with killing, so Holmes would manipulate his victims to get them to list him as their insurance beneficiary, and receive their life insurance (Hirschlag). Despite all this, Holmes might have been able to make more money just being a doctor, so he must not just have killed for money, but something else: Enjoyment.
Holmes is taken to the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo for supervision. A month later, Holmes Attorneys defended his client, by saying, "Mr. Holmes suffers from a severe mental illness and was in the throes of a psychotic episode when he committed the acts that resulted in the tragic loss of life and injuries sustained by movie goers on July 20, 2012” (“Colorado Theater”, 2017). Holmes defense to his actions was because he believe the reason he killed everyone is because he was unable to control his actions because of the movie he watched.
H. Holmes killed many innocent people, but never left evidence of what he did. He sold most of his victims bodies to colleges. How was he caught at the end? Frank Geyer was a detective, and “a big man with a pleasant, earnest face” (Larson 339). He was solving the disappearance of many people including the children of Benjamin Pitezel.
“I was born with the devil in me. I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than a poet can help the inspiration to sing.” The infamous H.H. Holmes spoke these spine chilling words. Known as “America’s First Serial Killer”, Holmes lived a secretive and lavish lifestyle. Holmes’s fear of doctors as a young child ripened into a fascination of the human anatomy.
I believe that the house on Mango Street represents the narrator's optimistic fantasy and simultaneously, the narrator's gloomy confinement and shame. The narrator is terribly ashamed of their, "small red house" because when they are simply asked where they live, the narrator becomes immediately uncomfortable and feels humiliated by the nun. The narrator’s embarrassment is evident when they reluctantly admit that the floor that had, “paint peeling wooden bars” was indeed, where they lived. The narrator became so embarrassed that it made them, “feel like nothing”. The narrator’s shame in their house seems to be wrapped up in their feelings about wealth and status.
Keystone species are essential elements of ecological communities and have a disproportionate impact on the composition and operation of ecosystems. A keystone species is one that, in relation to its abundance, has an overpowering effect on its surrounding ecosystem. They influence many other organisms in an environment and help to decide the types and quantities of different other species in the community, all of which are essential to sustaining the foundation of an ecological community. The ecology would change significantly or vanish altogether if keystone species were absent. Keystone species, despite their significance, are frequently ignored in conservation efforts, which contributes to their decline and possible ecological effects.
