Crime Description This paper will analyze the murder of Vanessa Pham by Julio Miguel Blanco-Garcia. Around 3:30 in the afternoon on June 27, 2010, as Vanessa Pham was leaving a nail salon in Fairfax Plaza Shopping Center when Julio Blanco-Garcia approached her. Blanco-Garcia, high on PCP and carrying his infant daughter, told Pham that he was having a medical emergency and asked her to drive him to the hospital. Vanessa agreed and allowed the two into her car.
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.
In the documentary, “Killer inside:the mind of Aaron Hernandez”it follows the infamous professional athlete Aaron Hernandez. Taking a deep dive into the psychology and childhood of Mr. Hernandez ,and tries to find the reasoning behind his grievous crimes and his eventual suicide. The documentary starts out with a series of phone calls and radio snippets regarding the murder committed by Hernandez, This is followed by snippets about his career with the patriots. These bits of information serve as the initial hook of the documentary making the viewer want to find out more concerning Aaron Hernadez and his crimes.
In 2005, in Camarillo, California, a young by the name Carl Bryan stayed at his cousin’s house overnight. Bryan’s cousin’s girlfriend accidentally had taken Bryan vehicle keys to Los Angeles, California. Bryan and his cousin wake up early the next day to travel to Los Angeles, CA to pick up his keys. Bryan and his cousin returned to Camarillo to retrieve his vehicle and brother. The California Highway Patrol stopped Bryan for speeding and issued a traffic citation.
The killer had lead the girls to the property where they were found. He leads the girls down a hill, through a trail, through Deere Creek and then to the property. It is believed that the killer had to have known the area for him to lead the girls to that property, and off on to the car trail. It was a shock to all since Delphi area wasn’t known for crime. The grandfather was the first to notice that they weren’t there anymore and had gone missing.
The first successive scene I would like to point out is one towards the beginning of the film. Eve was talking to her sister Cesily about how she saw her father and Mrs Maddie (another woman) having sex in the shed while her mother, family and friends were inside the house. Eve was clearly distraught and emotional, telling her sister what she saw and Cisely stops her and says no that 's not what you saw or what happened. The camera then pans from them and goes back in time to the incident. It 's almost as if paned and move in a lazy Susan type of motion.
The family came running out of their house while the shooter Byron de la Beckwith left the area of the crime. Later on the F.B.I. finds Byron in the woods near the scene of the crime and brings him in as a suspect, where he had a trial in a racist state, with a racist judge, and a racist jury. The evidence had his finger prints on it, he was spotted at the scene of the crime, and his car was found near the scene of the crime, but because it was a horribly racist time period he was found not guilty, and was let out into the public, where on his way home the people of the city threw an entire parade for him. Nearly twenty-six years later Myrlie Evers heads to the D.A.'s office in hopes to reopen the case, where a man named Bobby Delaughter is introduced.
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
Andre Dubus, short stories contain a common theme of revenge, morality, and justice. In “Killings” published in 1979, Andre displays the theme of revenge and justice through the development of characters, the title of the story, and the thrill of the suspense. Dubus neglects to take sides with the characters in the “Killings”, which leaves it upon the readers to make assumption whether the killings were justifiable. Dubus has a very unique style of writing, the main characters in “Killings” were given a choice that could’ve led them to a completely different outcome. Dubus keeps the readers on their toes because the opposite usually ends up happening.
In the sonnet, “Neurasthenia”, the author, Agnes Mary F. Robinson uses imagery to develop the idea of how sickness and depression can alter our views of the world. Throughout the sonnet, images are provided that help to shape our overall understanding. Perhaps one the most important part of the sonnet is the title which changes our entire view of the poem and its meaning. Firstly, the title holds great significance to the overall meaning.
The demonstration of the narrator's imagination unconsciously leads his own thoughts to grow into a chaotic mess that ultimately ends in a death. By murdering, it’s his own way of finding peace. He is portrayed as being a sadist, sick man with an unnatural obsession for
[He] does not notice the police car… follow him.” This one event, mixed with the stereotype the protagonist has thrown upon him by the cop, seals his fate. All three of these situations foreshadow the ironic and deadly situation that the poor lost man is about to find himself involved. It is these subtle hints to his death that not only add suspense to the plot, but also hold a key importance in conflict development. W.D. Valgardson uses many great elements of fiction to build plot and conflict, as well as teach the lesson of not making snap judgments in his short story Identities.
The last thing he saw was the door of his room being pulled open, his sister was screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to make it easier for her to
As Chronicle of a Death Foretold tells the story of the killing of Santiago Nasar, who was murdered for depriving Angela Vicario of virginity, this work is set in a small Colombian town, while the events described were inspired by the real events that
The non-fiction novel ‘In Cold Blood’ interestingly begins as a fiction novel would-with the author setting up the scene of the gruesome quadruple murder about to take place, unbeknownst to the victims. Capote describes the isolated flatlands of rural Kansas, and introduces the victims and their killers as if they were the main characters of a fictional murder mystery. What immediately struck me is how Capote uses literary techniques like the simultaneous narration of the lives of the killers and victims, and the fragmented retelling of the story not specifically in the order of events, which makes the story read more like a work of fiction than of pure journalism. As one gets engrossed in the book, it gets easier to forget that the story is based on truth and is not just a fictional story born in Capote’s head. Capote also demonstrates his mastery over the ‘thriller and suspense’ genre, detailing the Clutter family’s everyday lives, emotions and experiences but with progressively higher levels of anticipation as the pages go by, employing versions of the omnipresent phrase, ‘and that was their last’ for dramatic effect.
