I was researching online and I found a very interesting case that took place in Houston, Texas. This case involved a 22-year-old female at the time that goes by the name of Cherita Thurman. Cherita was beaten very badly and hog-tied in her apartment back in 2002(KHOU, 2017). The exterminator was making his rounds and that’s when he found her breathless body just lying there. Cherita death was immediately ruled as a homicide because there were no leads to the case (KHOU, 2017).
The case I pick was about Chad Heins. He was wrongfully convicted of murdering his sister-in-law in northern Florida. Chad Heins was exonerated on December 4, 2007, due to DNA evidence proving that another man committed the crime. On April 17, 1994, Tina Heins was brutally stabbed to death. Chad lived with his sister-in-law and brother Jeremy.
This corpse, however, had likely been dead for far longer, and his skin was covered in the same chemical burn as the Lady of the Lake from 1934”(Casale). The second half of this double murder helped put the pieces together and connect a previous important murder. The male of this murder could not be identified, however it contributed to finding Dolezal for both murders including others as well. It is important to recognize these murders because it is vital in the
On February 24th, 1976 Michelle Mitchell’s car broke down in Washoe, Nevada. She called her mother for a ride, but when she arrived at the scene, minutes later, Michelle was nowhere in sight. Two hours later, Michelle was found stabbed to death in a garage across the street from the University of Nevada. Her car keys were missing and the only evidence found was a cigarette butt near the body. Witnesses claimed to have seen a man fleeing from the area, but the murder remained unsolved for three years.
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.
When found, her body was unrecognisable according to the Police Officer in charge of the investigation, Inspector Wayne King. Within three days (Thursday 26) of the body being discovered,
The last victim was Curtis C. Burke he was a 36 white male with no relation to Charles, finally the location of the incident was Kansas City , Missouri. Also, for this crime there was 4 witness three of them was police chief and the last one was just a police officer. The first witness was John H. Fultz and he was a white male and didn’t mention the age, the city of the residence was in Wellsville, Ohio with no relation to the
The killings began in the summer of 1984 when the first known murder of 79 year old Jennie Vincow occurred. The stabbing murder and sexual assault occurred outside of her home. It took a while before the police found out who was behind the killings due to the clues not being revealing enough at the crime scene towards the start. A shoe print was the only clue that the police had at first. A lot of the crimes done were very similar (i.e. murder and rape) causing the police to think that they all could perhaps be related.
Four of the victims all were connected to Eastern Michigan University, strangling was involved in four out of five of the case. All the victims were white, they all had brown hair and all the bodies were found very easily. This led the police to believe that the killer wanted his victims to be found. Mutilation of the victims was also a similarity. Hundreds of tips were given to the agencies however they all ended up being loss causes.
The next day the police used the description to search the skating rink hoping to find the assailant. They identified Anthony Powell, despite the fact that he had a full head of hair and a full beard. His picture was taken and the victim picked him out of a photo lineup and he was later convicted (Possley, n.d.). It wasn’t until 2002 that the case was reopened to examine the DNA in the case against that of Anthony Powell. The victim claimed she also had sex with her boyfriend before the rape, so both Anthony and her previous boyfriend were tested using DNA fingerprinting to check for a match.
When two more bodies continued the killing spree in the spring of 1980 and a 7-year-old girl had been reported missing, the FBI was called in and a profiler was assigned to work on the case as well. After this the killer changed his MO dumping the bodies into the Chattahoochee River and this allowed for the search to become confined to the bridges in the area that went across the
Unsolved Murders of Oklahoma Summer James American History Coach Baker November 13, 2014 The Unsolved Murders of Oklahoma! In 1977, late April, At Oklahoma’s Camp Scott a councilor returned from a training session and found her stuff strewn. Her doughnuts were gone but there was a paper inside of her empty doughnut box.
Rosemary Brown was a Canadian politician that was born in Kingston Jamaica on 17th June 1930. She was raised by her mother and grand-mother, since her father died when she was very young. She grew up in a middle class neighbourhood and she described her childhood being supportive and safe, in a house ruled by women. Rosemary Brown came to Canada on 10th August 1950 to get an education at McGill University in Montreal. She was shocked by the sexism and racism she experienced while she was trying to obtain housing or summer jobs or just trying to fit into her university life.
To start, The Black dahlia murder till this very day is one of L.A’s oldest cold cases to date. On January, 15, 1947, A local resident finds a severed body of a 22 year old woman named Elizabeth Short (Newton 25). Later, Investigators found that Short had been taken and killed somewhere else, washed and drained of blood, and then discarded in a vacant lot. (Newton 35).
On August 28th, 1993, the decomposing remains of a person were discovered in Anchorage, Alaska. The remains were hidden in the woods, discovered by a group of cyclists months after the person’s death. The body had been wrapped in a white bed sheet with orange stitching, and the skull of the body was caved in badly. A small red fiber of unknown origin was found within the white sheet as well. The remains were identified as Judy Burgin, a woman who had gone missing in April of that year.
