On November 2, 2007, the body of British college student, Meredith Kercher, was found in the Italian villa she shared with American college student, Amanda Knox. Kercher’s throat had been slashed and her body was only partially clothed. In the months that followed, Amanda Knox, her then-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, and a drifter, Rudy Guede, will all have been suspects in the murder of Meredith Kercher.
In 1836, the gruesome death of a prostitute encaptivated the public eye and began a newspaper frenzy that centered on a morbid fixation of the life and death of Helen Jewett. Patricia Cline Cohen's The Murder of Helen Jewett pieces together the facts of Helen's life and death in an attempt to describe gender inequality in America by giving a meticulous account of life in the 1830s. (Insert small biography) Around three in the morning on Sunday, April 10, 1836 Rosina Townsend, the madam of the brothel, was spurred from her bed at the south end of Thomas St by a man knocking on the front door.
Two women from Texas, Andrea Yates, 37 and Darlie Routier, 27 both shocked the world when they brutally murdered their children. Both women were described as wonderful mothers who loved their children, but were also described as having post-partum issues during the last years of their children’s lives. Andrea Yates admitted to her harsh crimes and was willing to take any punishment that was given, as she believed she was saving her children’s souls. On the other hand, Darlie Routier did not admitted her crimes towards her children. Darlie Routier pleaded not guilty, but prosecutors believed differently after many conflicts appeared in her story.
Although Wayne Williams was convicted for killing 2 adults, the Atlanta Child Murders began in July of 1979 after the bodies of 2 children were found hidden under the bushes of at the side of an Atlanta road. (Biography.com Editors, 2015). For the next 22 months the city and FBI would find 29 victims suspected of being murdered by Wayne Williams a free-lance photographer and hopeful music producer with a criminal record of impersonating the police. (unknown, 2014). 14-year-old Edward Smith was found shot by a .22 caliber weapon and 13-year-old Alfred Evan was found murdered by asphyxiation these deaths sparked the beginnings of a string of child murders that would rock Atlanta to its core.
The man, whose identity has not yet been released, now lives in a senior care facility in Ontario, according to [url=http://news.yahoo.com/why-91-old-confessed-murder-nearly-70-years-205208117.html t=_blank]Yahoo News[/url]. He reportedly went into a nearby police station to confess to the crime so many years ago, halfway across the world. The police searched through all the unsolved murder cases from that time frame.
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.
At the young age of fourteen years old, Steven Truscott was wrongfully accused for the murder of his classmate, Lynne Harper. The evening of her death occurred on June 9, 1959. Steven was seen giving Lynne a ride home on his bicycle that evening. Lynne’s father reported her missing that night and she was found dead in a nearby wooded area, two days later. Lynne had been sexually assaulted and strangled to death.
She'd been shot in the back of the head with a shotgun held maybe two inches away. She was lying on her side, facing the wall, and the wall was covered with blood... Her hands were tied behind her, and her ankles were roped together with the kind of cord you see on Venetian blinds.” Nancy Clutter was an innocent teenage girl who had been shot execution style in the comfort of her own bed. As if to mock her, the murders had positioned her in her bed with the covers tucked around her.
In 2017, a documentary was released on a spotlighted woman, Lizzie Borden. She is know for taking a hatchet and killing her stepmother Abby Borden first with nine hits to the back of the skull then her father Andrew with five. Her biological mother Sarah Anthony Borden had passed away from being sickly in March 1863. Lizzie was known for being an odd, awkward child and teen, she got along rather well with animals so that is where she spent most of her time. When attending high school at Fall River she realized she wasn't very much of a scholar so she had withdrawn her junior year.
My serial killer was William George Bonin. He was also referred to as the “Freeway Killer”. Bonin was a Caucasian male, born in Connecticut on January 18, 1947. He was born the 2nd of 3 brothers. Both of his parents were alcoholics and his father was compulsive gambler.
Over 100 years ago the Town of Villisca, Iowa experienced a mass murder like no other. This would leave everyone questioning who did it forever. Still, with all that has gone on in the horrible murder, they have not found the person who committed this terrible crime. On June 10th, 1912 all the neighbors, family, and friends of the 8 people who were brutally murdered with an ax had their lives change forever with no explanation. Frank Jones hired William Mansfield to kill the Moore’s because he had a known hate for Joe, he knew about their house and them personally, and he was too old to go and kill 8.
In “ The Crucible, “ Miller uses the character Mary Warren to describe the confusion, anxiety, and peer pressure that the people of Salem felt at the time and to further put the audience in the shoes of one living in this crucial time in early history. Mary Warren is a vital character because she demonstrates an accurate illustration of how young women in this time period get peer pressured into committing crimes against innocent people. The author goes on to give insight to how a young woman in that situation might have lived and realistic experiences someone might have went through. The reader can learn lifelong lessons and themes from the role of Mary Warren because of the facts the things she did resembles a lot of recurring crimes faced today.
The Lasting Effect of War It is impossible to undo the changes caused by war. People often go into war as one person and return a completely new one. Not only does war have extreme physical effects on a person, but greater effects on the mind and mental state of the people involved. The traumatic and life changing effects of war are evident in The Things They Carried and are especially noticeable in the characters of Mary Anne Bell, Tim O’Brien, and Rat Kiley and the lives they live.
We’ve all heard the song, we all know what she did, but does anyone really know Lizzie Borden? Lizzie was spoiled rotten, an axe murderer, and has become a well known name to most conspiracists. Until the day her father died, Lizzie Borden got anything and everything she could have ever wanted. Lizzie’s father gave her the opportunity to continue her schooling even when women were rarely allowed this blessing. Although, he allowed Lizzie he did not allow his other daughter, Emma to attend past primary school.
Around the 1940’s many people were being discriminated for their race. This was hard, especially for children who had no idea why they were being treated the way they were. All the schools were segregated, so they could not go to the same school as the white children they may have lived near. One school girl was willing to fight, with her family, to go to the same school her white friends went to. She decided, with the help of her dad, to bring the Board of Education to court.
