Natalee Ann Holloway was an American teenager who went missing on May 30, 2005. She had recently graduated high school, and was on a graduation trip to Aruba in the Caribbean. The last person to be seen with Natalee was Joran Van der Sloot, a dutch already convicted of killing Stephany Flores' Ramirez years earlier, and many leads have led Aruban police to believe that he killed Holloway. However, the details aren't concrete. Even though no arrests have been made connected to the kidnapping or murder of Natalee Holloway, detailed evidence proves that Joran van der Sloot killed Holloway and disposed of her body to cover up the crime.
It really depends on the child and their capacity to recall and identify events and people. The most famous case I know where a child witness was the key witness was the Lester Street Murders in Memphis, TN. On March, 2008, Jessie Dotson went to 722 Lester Street, where his brother, Cecil, lived with his girlfriend and their children. Jessie killed four adults were multiple gunshot wounds, killed two children, ages 2 and 4, who were beaten and stabbed. Three other children, one just 2 months old, also were beaten and stabbed, but survived the attack.
The Prosecutor of the Jodi Arias murder trial was Juan Martinez During the report of the crime scene detectives figured out that there were no suspects involved with the murder, other than an ex-girlfriend that people talked negatively about and wouldn’t stop bothering Travis. Detectives spoke with her and she claimed she had nothing to do with the murder of Travis, but later on changed her story and admitted to killing Travis, but as an act of self-defense. Flaws within her story started to make her look bad and evidence contradicted everything she said. Martinez soon figured out that there was a receipt for a five gallon gas can that she purchased and two five gallon gas cans that she borrowed from a friend, so she was in possession of 15
The Murder of Danielle Van Dam By: Nevethan Jeyachandran Submitted to Dr.Monica Sauer Student Number: 500-523-913 Course: Intro to Forensics (CCHY-183) December 01, 2014 Introduction The Murder of Danielle Van Dam is a gruesome case which took place in the year 2002. A 7-year old girl went missing from her bedroom in San Diego, California, on Feb1-2, 2002. Her badly decomposed body was found in a remote area far away from her home on February 27. Police suspected a neighbour, David Alan Westerfield for the murder.
In the case of Tara Brown’s murder, various groups of individuals are affected. As well as maintaining principles of fair punishment and deterrence, the criminal justice system has to consider perceptions of the victim’s family (secondary victim), the community’s demand for crime prevention, and the offender’s rights to a fair court hearing. The most likely outcome is imprisonment for Lionel John Patea due to committing an indictable offence. It is important to note that if this was only a case of domestic abuse without murder, it would utilise more time, effort and expenses to come to a resolution. This is due to the different circumstances and degree of abuse that the judge has to assess.
BRIDGEWATER, Ma. — Another arrest has been made in connection to the death of a South Jersey woman who was set on fire in Massachusetts, 6abc reports. Ovi Cruz is being accused of misleading police, according to prosecutors who say Cruz lied about how well he knew the man wanted for the murder of Ashley Bortner, reports say. Fernando Owens, 43, of Dorchester, Mass., is wanted for the murder of 29-year-old Bortner. Bortner, a Paulsboro native, was found Nov. 3 alongside railroad tracks in Bridgwater, Mass.
Amanda Berry was conceived on April 22, 1986, and experienced childhood in the Cleveland, Ohio region. As a youngster, Berry had secured work at a neighborhood Burger King, yet one night mysteriously vanished strolling home from the occupation. She had keep going been seen on April 21, 2003, the day preceding she turned 17. It would later be uncovered that a man, Ariel Castro, had baited her into his vehicle. Berry was recorded as a missing individual, with her mom Louwana Miller fomenting for there to be more scope concerning her little girl's vanishing and dissipating any thoughts that Berry had fled.
Amanda Berry kept journals while she was being held captive, the book shifts from her perspective to Gina DeJesus’s. The book also goes through what their families were going through and Castro’s background. Between 2002 and 2004, Castro kidnapped the girls, Michelle Knight was the first one. He kept them locked up inside his own home. But in May of 2013, Amanda Berry snuck through a door helping the women reach their freedom.
Author, Anita Larsen, in her nonfiction textbook article “The Murder with No Body” about a murder solved without an actual victim writes to inform young adults about the role of forensics in solving crimes by using the case of Helen McCourt in a serious tone. This author supports her central idea very successfully. She supports her claim by introducing the case of Helen McCourt, whose disappearance was unexplained and suspicion of foul play could not be proven. She next proceeds to show that a name in the victim's diary led the investigators to blood stained clothes in the possession of Ian Simms, but the inability to prove that the clothes were McCourt’s halted the investigation. Additionally, she explains that the use of genetics had to
The two books I read was And Then There Were None (ATTWN) and Confessions: The Private School Murders. ATTWN, the first book, was about these 10 people who were invited to this island, some of them for a job and some were invited just to hangout and have fun. One by one they start being killed and they try to figure out who is the murderer. The second book I read, Confessions: The Private School Murders, was about this young girl, Tandy, and her two brothers.
Murder on a Sunday Morning, is an Oscar award-winning documentary that tells of the conviction and trial of 15-year-old Brenton Butler for the death of Mary Ann Stephens in Jacksonville, Florida of May 2000. The film is a 111-minute movie directed by Jean-Xavier de Lastrade. The plot originates from the incident of Mary Ann Stephens being shot in the head by a black assailant; and then begins to unravel as Brenton Butler is arrested 90 minutes after the murder has occurred. Pat McGuinness, one of the main interviewees in the movie, takes up the case and defends Brenton Butler. The documentary presents the film from the trial, as well as interviews and investigations that Pat McGuinness and his partner Ann Finnel performed to gather facts for
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, we are here today to discuss the murder of John Wright. On November 15, Mr. Wright was found in his bed with a rope around his neck, presumably strangled to death. His body was discovered by his wife supposedly and did not bother to notify to the local authorities. At eight o'clock in the morning, Mr. Hale went to look for Mr. Wright and found Minnie, Mr. Wright’s wife, sitting in a rocking chair inside of the house. Mr. Hale asked Minnie for her husband and she stated that John Wright was dead in the bedroom.
The Cleveland Abduction is a film based on a crime that was committed in the early two thousands. Ariel Castro, a bus driver from Cleveland, abducted three women, Michelle Knight, Gina DeJesus and Amanda Berry, between the years of 2002 and 2004. These women were held captive by Castro until May of 2013. During their captivity these women were abused mentally and physically, being raped and bound by chains daily. Amanda Berry became pregnant by Castro during this time and gave birth to her daughter, which was also being held captive.
In the case of Mary Barnett, I agree with the courts decision to find her guilty of second degree murder and manslaughter. This is largely based on my analysis of the witnesses presented during the trial and the demeanor and actions of the defendant. Having an associates degree in psychology helped me formulate decisions about the role of each character and what part they were to play during the course of the trial. I utilized the teaching from the text book as well as the concepts from my social psychology class which required me to people watch and analyze the surroundings, body language, and actions of others.
1. Does this case support or contradict Weber’s arguments about the monolithic power position of bureaucracy in society? Both cases, How Kristen Died and The Columbia Accident supported everything Weber described. Weber wanted to maximize efficiency as well as eliminate favoritism. Weber’s overall reason for creating bureaucracy was so that a new administrative system could be created that would treat all humans equally.
