The scene was documented by a scene sketch that was on graph paper with a scale of 3 boxes= 1 foot. Victim, Anna Garcia, is 38 years old, hispanic, female with a height of 64 inches and a weight of 165. According to the autopsy report, clothes are not torn but have blood stains on them. There was a small amount of vomit on the shoulder area of the blouse. Garcia’s head is normally shaped and has medium long, black hair.
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).
Months passed before they decided to check for any blood. Blood was found on the sweatshirt, so testing had to be done. After a while the results came back showing it belonged to Stephanie, but many days passed before Tuite was charged with the murder. After that, the case went to trial again. They were hoping they could get Tuite out without any charges.
She had been beaten, strangled, and stabbed almost 2 dozen times. But she put up one helluva fight. There were signs of a struggle all over the house & she had defensive wounds on her hands & arms. She may have even struck & injured her attacker with a glass beer mug, as a broken one was found in the house, smeared with blood.
January 13th, 1999 a 17-year-old girl named Hae is manually strangled, to death. Six weeks later Hae’s ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, is convinced of the murder. He is given a life sentence, plus thirty years, for his crime. Jay was the main witness at the trial. His story is as follows.
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.
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,
After calling the police, the victim was brought to the hospital, where a rape kit was
In November of 2014, a man, Gary Fellenbaum, and his girlfriend, Jillian Tait Thursday, are charged with murdering the girlfriend’s 3-year old son. Authorities were called under the false pretense of an unresponsive child, when EMTs arrived, 3-year old Scott McMillan was reported to have suffered from bruises, lacerations, and puncture wounds all over his body. Fellenbaum, Tait, and Fellenbaum’s wife, Amber, confessed to police, “…that the little boy had been beaten with blunt and sharp objects, whipped, taped to a chair with electrical tape and beaten, hung up by his feet and beaten, leading to his death.” (Unknown). Tait later explained to the police that the beatings began because Scott refused to eat his breakfast.
Lyle being the number one suspect has now been found dead. That also left the unidentified women in the crash to be identified. Forensic testing to get an understanding on time of death. Maggots were taken from the body to determine when the bodies were initially dead. This indicated that the bodies have been dead for over a week.
She was found hidden under trash piles by a volunteer search team. The stage of decomposition the body was in suggested that the body was decomposing for at least a few
“But the evidence will show he directed her off the highway to a dark, secluded where he strangled her with a rope and threw her body off a bridge.” Desloup stated (pg 1). As stated in the case, the murder weapon was a rope, as she died because of strangulation. After the murder,
His mother said that “they are not really trying to find out who killed my son”(Runtagh, 2017). He was rushed to the hospital and then died 7 days
March 26, 2014-Jordan Linn Graham wishes to withdraw guilty plea because the agreement she accepted was “illusory” and “hollow formality”. March 27, 2014-Judge sentences Graham to 30 years for husband’s murderTitle of Paper, Exactly As It Appears on the Title Page Research Paper On July 20, 2013, Cody Johnson, age 25 was found dead at the bottom of a cliff in Glacier National Park in Montana. Johnson’s body was recovered 72 hours after he went missing. Just 8 days ago, Johnson married a woman by the name was Jordan Graham. Prior to the wedding, friends of Cody Johnson warned him not to marry the woman he was in love with.
There were signs of anal penetration and most of the victims if not all of them were beheaded and dismembered. It was concluded that the killer used knives and razors to kill his victims. At many of the crime scenes there was clothing left behind from both the victims snd the killer. Investigators often found rope fibers, empty liquor bottles and lubricants. The consistency of these crime scenes lead investigators to believe they were dealing with just one man.
