JonBenet Ramsey On December 26, 1996, Patsy Ramsey made a hysterical police call reporting her daughter, JonBenet being kidnapped. The search for JonBenet began when her mother Patsy woke up to a three page ransom note on the steps. In her frantic state, she rushed to her daughter’s room, where she was missing. After waking up her husband John, they called the police.
A Christian pastor and his wife’s adopted son has been charged with murder after the couple was recently found dead in Alabama. On Thursday night, Pastor William Jeremy Hulsey, 43, and his wife Sandra Hulsey, 37, were shot dead inside their home in Hartselle. Priceville cops were called to the residence, and an investigation flagged their adoptive son as a person of interest in the crime, according to AL.com.
It really depends on the child and their capacity to recall and identify events and people. The most famous case I know where a child witness was the key witness was the Lester Street Murders in Memphis, TN. On March, 2008, Jessie Dotson went to 722 Lester Street, where his brother, Cecil, lived with his girlfriend and their children. Jessie killed four adults were multiple gunshot wounds, killed two children, ages 2 and 4, who were beaten and stabbed. Three other children, one just 2 months old, also were beaten and stabbed, but survived the attack.
Eric Smith at the age of thirteen tortured and murdered a four year old child named Derrick Robie at a nearby woods. Eric was sentenced to nine years to life in prison. Eric was convicted for second degree murder. His reasoning for the murder was because Eric just wanted to see someone being hurt rather than him. The Robie family were suffering knowing one day he will be released back into society.
The last chapter starts with the criminal Wes. The beginning of the chapter is a story about how Wes, Tony and other two men committed a crime. Wes’ mother Mary was shocked, when she heard the news about jewelry store robbery by four masked men; at that moment she even did not know how much this news would change her life. One of the robbers shot a veteran of police department, because of this police officers were incredibly interested to catch them. A break in the case came really quickly, because one of the perpetrators, who was Wes’ brother, tried to sell one of the stolen watches to a drug dealer who had an authorized wiretap on his phone.
Orenthal James Simpson aka O.J Simpson is a murderer that commited the crime in a professional way can be said. This is cause he actually planned the crime and also at same night he was leaving to Chicago. This act was to done to make the enforcement and forensic authorities to be confused. However, O.J Simpson left numerous evidence and the main evidence was the footprint that actually was the main evidence that solved this case. O.J Simpson and his wife Nicole Brown Simpson have been divorce for afew months.
In order to know more about two serial killers, Alieen Carol Wuornos and Daniel Harold Rolling, I do some researches and concludes them in the next few paragraphs. Daniel Harold Rolling, “The Gainesville Ripper” that born in May 26, 1954, killed eight people through 1989 to 1990 by using his knife. When he was young, his father, a policeman, always abused his mother, his brother, and him. Although his mother tried to leave his father several times, his mother still returned. After few years, he attempted to kill his father when they got an argument.
In this quote, the Baltimore police department perform an intense search for the four jewelry store robbers, provoked by the fact that the man killed “one of their own.” The man that was killed was Sergeant Bruce Prothero, a police officer and father of five who had a second job working as a security guard at the mall. They captured the first two suspects within two days of the shooting. Mary watches as the news reporter publicizes that the final two suspects—Tony and Wes—are still on the run, and that they are being treated as “armed and dangerous.” Tony and Wes are in North Philadelphia, staying at an uncle’s house.
believe a possible theme would be to always be prepared. Throughout the book, we can see that Columbine was completely unprepared. They did not have a set plan of what to do so students and teachers were running around panicking. This is one of the reasons that there were so many casualties.
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.
Finally, I would like to look at a podcast called Serial. The first season of Serial follows the murder of a high school senior Hae Min Lee in 1999. After searching for six weeks, her body is found buried in the local park. Her ex-boyfriend, Adnan, is arrested and charged with her murder. However, Sarah Koenig, host of Serial, believes there is something fishy about the case from the start.
Some of the most persuading essays
Renowned crime-fiction author P.D James once said ‘Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary. That we live in a rational comprehensible and moral universe. ’(Goodreads Inc:2015) The crime-fiction genre in itself has the power to restore justice and order in the word however fictional it may be. It has the power make one believe that in the end the perpetrator will always be found and will be punished.
Lies, they come in different forms and shape some of then are little lies, big lies or white lies. However, I believe lying, in all forms, is bad. After watching the film it made me agree even more with the fudge factor concept. When we lie we are doing something that it is considered awful, unacceptable, dishonored and incorrect. However, all of us had lied before and we still view ourselves as good people.
