On Christmas night in the year of 1996 a six old girl named Jonbenet Ramsey was killed and found in the family's wine cellar, long with a ransom note. After a christmas party Jonbenet's mother Patsy, took her sleeping daughter up to bed around 9:00 pm, but the next morning around 5:00 am her daughter was gone. Almost all of the evidence was strange starting with the placement of the body, the 911 call, the ransom note, the window, and the victim's stomach contents. Jonbenet’s body was found in the family home wine cellar, but the placement of her body was strange. The detectives that worked the case did not understand why the killer would leave Jonbenet in the home that she was supposed to have been taken from.
On the morning of December 26, 1996 John Ramsey discovered the lifeless body of six-year old JonBenet Ramsey in the basement of the family’s home. This was the beginning of an American crime story that remains unsolved to this day, despite the Boulder Police Department processing over fifteen hundred pieces of evidence and interviewing more than one thousand people (Agrawal, 2016). The Ramsey family blamed the Boulder Police Department for their inexperience kidnapping and murder investigations and scrutinized the police for not seeking additional assistance from other law enforcement agencies (Ramsey, 2000). The Boulder Police Department immediately became suspicious that a member of the Ramsey’s family or someone close to them committed
Forensics Analyst Aeron Klamorick’s report: Sidney Mollen and PACO are the murderers A dark street illuminated by the streetlights was quiet around two in the morning. The brick tiles lining the street were wet from the rain. A shop not different from any other still had the light on. Two shadowy figures move towards the innocent worker. The other voice yelled at the shortage of stamps.
Richard Raymond Tuite was seen running around town about the time Stephanie was murdered. Tuite was knocking on neighbors doors. He was asking for a woman named Tracy. Wearing a red sweatshirt, they wouldn’t notice any blood spots with the naked eye. After the police questioned and dismissed him they confiscated his red sweatshirt just in case.
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.
Before the boys ran away to the Church in Windrixville, Johnny Cade was wanted for the murder of Bob Sheldon. Ponyboy was wanted as an accomplice in the murder of Bob Sheldon. Police have sorted through all of the evidence of the scene at the water fountain and through the rubble of the Windrixville Community Church. They have also interrogated multiple witnesses including Cherry Valance and Randy Anderson.
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.
“29 Years Ago, 4-Year-Old Derrick Robie Was Murdered by Eric Smith: What You Should Know.” Democrat & Chronicle, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2022,
In 1924, 2 young teenagers named Nathan Leopold, Jr. and Richard Loeb have committed a shocking crime at that time by kidnapping and murder one 14 years old boy. Since they both came from a wealthy family, the criminal cases have caught the eyes of many. Leopold and Loeb planned to do a perfect crime. After much plotting and planning, they decided to kidnapped 14 years old Bobby Franks as he walked home from school one day and killed him by strike him in the head with a chisel.
The police investigation began instantly as a child abduction case, but soon took a turn for the worse when Jonbenet’s father, John Ramsey found her dead in the basement of her own house. “She was lying on the cold cement floor of the wine cellar with blood and bruises on her head, and a cord around her neck” (Agrawal). Immediately the child abduction case turned into that of a cold blooded murder. “The police should have done a better job controlling the crime scene from the begining” (Adams). With John Ramsey picking up his daughter’s dead body, and family friends walking around the house all morning, the chances of finding any evidence within the house was diminished.
On Friday evening, the body of teenager Robert "Bob" Sheldon was found at a park in eastern Tulsa, laying next to a fountain with a knife wound in his abdomen. Further evidence suggests that the Sheldon had been intoxicated. No arrests have been made yet, but police suspect that it was a gang-related crime. Investigators believe that more than one person of each party had been involved as well. One of Sheldon’s companions, who was questioned, Randy Adderson, did not prove to be much help for the investigators.
Shortly after the local neighbors called the police. At that very instant two teenagers rushed in and saved the kids. Both were later identified as criminals. They were linked to the recent Picture taken of the burning church. murder of Robert Sheldon.
On Sunday, November 13, 1842 a double murder occurred at Smith Farm in Old Fields, Long Island. The victims, Alexander Smith and and Rebecca Smith, were a wealthy, well- respected married couple who ran Smith farm. George Weeks, the Smiths farmhand, was reporting for work the monday after the murder and heard the dog barking from the work-shed by the Smiths house. George Weeks then became suspicious since the dog was usually inside with Mr. Smith. George then looked in the house and saw that the east room window was broken and Mr. and Mrs. Smith were lying on the floor covered in blood.
The Case Between 1975 and 1981 a man who became known as the ‘Yorkshire Ripper’ left at least 23 children motherless when he brutally murdered more than a dozen women in the North of England, and attempted to murder seven more. The victims were mostly prostitutes, but some were just ordinary girls (O 'Gara, 2006). The search for the ‘Ripper’ was one of the biggest investigations ever undertaken by a British police force and pre-dated the use of computers (Yorkshire Ripper, 2013). Because of the large scale of the case, this report will focus on just some of the investigative strategies used and some of the mistakes the police made. INVESTIGATIVE STRATEGIES
“An Argument that Abortion is Wrong” The debate over abortion has been going on for years, as this controversial topic has never been settled and never will be. It is due to the fact that people are entitled to their own opinions and beliefs, of whether or not abortion is permissible or impermissible. One view on abortion comes from the scholarly paper of “An Argument that Abortion is Wrong,” by Don Marquis. In this paper, Marquis attempts to show that abortion is morally impermissible by appeal to his account of the wrongfulness of killing, the “Future Like Ours” (FLO) account. With this account, abortion is impermissible due to the FLO account because life is meant for one to experience and value it, one cannot do so if they are prematurely
