Jeremy went to the police to issue a complaint, because his house was searched, and left a mess. During his complain, Jeremy was question about his son and his confrontation with Crag, he deny everything. Now the detectives are letting him know that Crag was shot in his front yard. After Jeremy was interrogated and was of no help, the detective had no other choice but to reach out to the news. Four days after a local car dealer got in touch with the homicide squad; informing them that, they recently sold a black SUV to Sarah.
On the morning of Sunday, November 15 1959, Nancy Ewalt and Susan Kidwell arrived at the Clutter 's house to carpool to church. After ringing the bell several times and receiving no response, they decided to enter the house. Upon entering, they found all the telephone connections severed and Nancy Clutter 's purse laid ransacked on the floor. Dumbfounded, they ran upstairs for any signs of the Clutters. There, they found Nancy Clutter 's body, she had suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the head.
Someone had put the key in the house, why would they take the key out, to ensure the car was not going to get moved off the property. They placed bullets in the garage, but Teresa wasn't shot, she would have most likely been strangled to death on the bed. The blood in the car had been placed. The blood vial of Stevens was punctured and tampered with. Why would Steven have been in the car besides to move it?
On the 9th of October, Robert Sheldon was found lying on the tainted red grass of Oak Park. The park was described to be “about two blocks square, with a fountain in the middle and a small swimming pool for little kids.” Police investigators ran through a body analysis showing Sheldon was stabbed by a switchblade around two-thirty in the morning. Hours later after the body was found, police went around asking Sheldon’s family and friends. Three kids, who are witnesses say Ponyboy Curtis and Johnny Cade were responsible.
On January 29, 1991, a vile crime occurred in the Heikkila home in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. Twenty-year-old Matthew Heikkila, the adopted son of Richard and Dawn Heikkila loaded up a “sawed-off 20-gauge shotgun” (Sullivan). He labeled shotgun shells “Mom” and “Dad”, and shot his parents both in the head. Matthew plotted the murder to get the chance to steal his parent’s credit cards, and treat his girlfriend to a birthday dinner. Matthew then left his parent’s dead bodies on the floor of his home and he and his girlfriend enjoyed a night in NYC.
On the night of January 20th, 1998 in Escondido, California, the lives of the family of 12 year old Stephanie Crowe were turned upside down. Stephanie’s body was discovered lifeless on her bedroom floor by her parents and grandmother. Stephanie had been stabbed 9 times, and there was no sign of forced entry into the house. The young girl’s window was unlocked that night but there was a screen in place and there was no evidence showing there was an entry through the window. The sliding glass door in the parent’s, Steve and Cheryl Crowe, room was also unlocked but they claimed they would’ve heard if someone had came through the door because of the blinds on the door.
This in turn leads the police to be extremely anxious about solving this mystery. A poor woman is also murdered within a matter of days of the murder mentioned before. Karen
Police say that she has been raped and stabbed. About a year later on November 30, 1985, the police brought in an 18 year old boy named Christopher Abernathy for an interrogation. An acquaintance of him named, Allan Dennis told the police
The murder of Caylee Anthony caught the world’s attention as soon as the story hit the news. Today, six years later, the mystery still bewilders the world. Looking behind the most controversial questions and digging deeper into them reveals just how blind the world was to what actually happened to two year old Caylee. The story behind what happened says Caylee’s mom was an avid partier and considered her daughter to be a nuisance and distraction from her desired lifestyle. That led her to murdering her two year old so she could live the life she wanted to live, free from the responsibility of a child.
Late 2005 I was assigned to 2-35 Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, HI. I re-enlisted into the Army after almost a three year break in service. On my previous enlistment, I served in the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment from the 82nd Airborne Division. All the new soldiers to include myself were standing in formation waiting on the Battalion Command Sergeant Major (CSM) to speak to us. I was the only Private First Class with a Combat Infantryman Badge, an Expert Infantryman Badge, and a combat deployment to Afghanistan.
Nancy had 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. The bedcovers were drawn up to her shoulders." "Her hands were tied behind her, and her ankles were roped together." Mrs. Clutter was found on her bed "she'd been tied, too.
Stevens waited in the bathroom until Nancy Allen was vulnerable and grabbed her. Wilkins stabbed her one time in the back, aiming for the kidneys because “he thought it would be a fatal wound. Instead of dying instantly, she rolled face forward onto the floor and was still breathing. Stevens did not know what to do to get the money out of the cash register, so Nancy told him the steps to take which only caused Wilkins to stab her three times in the chest, two in the heart. Nancy was still speaking and begging for her life, so Wilkins stabbed her four times in the neck, opening up the carotid
Gary Kinder’s book, Victim: The Other Side of Murder, offers a disturbing record of the murder and attempted murder of five individuals in a murder/robbery planned by an individual who should have never been free to commit such a heinous crime to begin with. Kinder’s book allows the reader to essentially get into the heads of the people who must experience the fallout of this devastating event, and offers a unique perspective on how the indirect victims of crime can be impacted just as direct victims are. The purpose of this paper is to examine the experiences of a father, Byron Nasibitt and his son Cortney Naisbitt; one an indirect victim of crime and the other, a direct victim, both of whom were forced to deal with the devastating effects
“I’ve already learned my lesson here: when you catch someone lying about a murdered girl, you go ask them why”(Jackson 44). The book, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, follows 17-year old high school student Pippa Fitz-Amobi through an investigation as she re-opens a closed murder case in the small town of Fairview, Connecticut. For her senior capstone project, Pippa chose to look into the case of high school senior Andie Bell, who was said to have been murdered by her boyfriend Salil Singh 5 years ago. Everyone in the town is convinced Salil is definitely the murderer. However, Pippa isn’t convinced and decides to dive deeper into the past and opens her own investigation, leading her down a path of twists and turns.
