Johnnie Cochran was born on October 2, 1937, in Shreveport, Louisiana. He, and his family, moved to California in 1943. He went to college at the University of California and Loyola Marymount University Law School. He worked in Los Angeles as a deputy criminal prosecutor until he made his own firm. Cochran’s first major case was for the wife of Leonard Deadwyler.
In Dallas, Texas a man was brutally murdered by servant at home. The body was cut up into limbs and put under the wood planks. During the murder the victim scream and heard by neighbors. Three police officers went into the scene. The suspect acted like nothing happened until he went insane and confessed.
The documentary, Making a Murderer brought national attention to an otherwise statewide murder case known mainly in the state of Wisconsin. The cases, which both involved the murder of Teresa Halbach, were The State of Wisconsin Vs. Steven Avery and The State of Wisconsin Vs. Brendan Dassey. The handling of the cases is up to debate, especially the verdicts themselves.
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.
Kaitleen Goodman Professor Taylor ENL 102-208 April 14, 2024 Annotated Bibliography This article is titled “Grand Jury Dismissed in JonBenét Ramsey Murder Case,” and was written by the History.com Editor Team which includes Amanda Onion, Missy Sullivan, Matt Mullen, and Christian Zapata. This team expresses in this article that the Grand Jury located in Colorado made the executive decision to not take further action in this case due to the absence of evidence in the case. The murder of Jon Benét was brutal and unfair to not only the family but society.
Steven Avery fights to prove his claimed innocence. Steven claims that "they set him up," when he was investigated and was told that he was not a suspect. The investigation of Teresa's death resulted in finding an essential in Steven's residence, EDTA test being done, and log documentation of officers. When searching Steven's home, a key that linked to Teresa's Rav 4 was found.
Imagine that you are taking a brief walk at night with your dog or by yourself and suddenly feel suffocated. The next thing you know, you have become the next victim of a gruesome sexual attack. However, you could never tell your tale because, at the lowest point of this heinous ordeal, you realize that your rapist will now turn into your murderer. This is the case of the Hillside Strangler, a story of two cousins, Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, and the brutal crimes they were charged with.
Today, there is nearly a total of three thousand serial killers and ten thousand victims of their violent rampage in the United States. Part of those ten thousand victims are the eight, casualties of Dayton Leroy Rogers, aka The Molalla Forest Killer. Although their deaths were unfair and tragic, Roger’s experience allowed for more information to be contributed to help solve and prevent future crimes. Born in Idaho on September 30, 1953 and quickly moved to Oregon, Rogers was enrolled into a life full of crime, already shooting cars with BB guns in the seventh grade. By the time he was nineteen his desire for crime was fulfilled when he reached over to kiss a girl on their second date, but “according to police reports, he stabbed her in
I and my fellow officers at JMPD(James Madison Police Department) were instructed to investigate the murder of Allen Ripley. From scouring the various articles of evidence and witness testimony we are of the firm belief that we have found the perpetrators. Mr. Ripley’s wife Autumn Ripley worked together with his business partner Matthew Piper and murdered Mr. Ripley on the night of July 10th, 2020, at approximately 11:00 P.M. We are sure of this from Witness statements, administered lie detector tests, and testimonies.
Introduction Worldwide Jeffery Dahmer was acknowledged as a brutal horrific killer. These murders were caused by many issues that he had, including: his childhood, cannibalism, manipulation, and attachment issues. Between 1978 and 1991 Jeffery was committing killings around his home in the Oxford Apartment block considered the black community. “When arrested FBI found seven human skulls, two human hearts, a bag of organs, and numerous severed body parts were among the atrocities they uncovered at the home where he killed 12 of his victims” (Caitlin Hornik, 2022, p.1). Dahmer was finally arrested on July 22, 1991…two years later, Dahmer was killed at the age of 34 by fellow inmate Christopher Scarver (Jeffrey Dahmer Murdered in Prison, 2010).
“There are currently more than 200,000 cold case murders in the United States alone, a number which rises by around 6,000 each year” (“Uncovered: Unsolved Murders By State”). Roland T. Owen’s case is tragically one of the 200,000 mysteries that have yet to be undone. His story began when he was a young man who was spending the night at the President Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. While fulfilling his stay, his behavior was viewed as odd by a maid and bellboys, but nothing went wrong until a few days later. This was when Owen was found at the death’s door and was sought out by a hotel employee.
A killing spree that lasted eighteen months started on the day of May 23rd, 1918 (Buzzfeed 2017). Catherine and Joe Maggio were violently “axed” in their peaceful slumber with their throats slit, the only things found at the crime scene? A bloody axe,
In this paper I will be applying the psychological theories to serial killer Ed Gein. Ed Gein was a prolific serial killer in the 1950’s. He murdered and robbed graves for body parts to make furniture and clothing. He was apprehended in 1957, where he stood trial and was institutionalized. Edward Theodore “Ed” Gein was born August 27th, 1906 to George and Augusta Gein.
Ed Gein was an infamous American serial killer who was born in Wisconsin, on August 27th, 1906. Ed Gein grew up with his eldest brother Henry and violent alcoholic father, George P. Gein, with whom he never had a relationship with, in a house that was dictated by his enthusiastically religious mother, Augusta Crafter, and her sermons of sin, Augusta passed on her notion to her children, that all women aside from herself were whores. Gein’s mother ran their humble family business and later on bought a farm on the border of a small town to avoid strangers influencing her two sons. The only time Ed was ever given permission to leave his home was to go to school, where he was preyed on by bullies. Gein’s father passed away in 1940, and his brother in 1944, after a fire that Ed had also been caught in, where he had experienced a head
Soaring 80 miles per hour on I-85/40 between Burlington and Mebane, drivers are rushing to get to their next stop. In the year 2018, young boys and girls are growing up in a world where life is experienced at a very fast rate. We sometimes forget to stop and give ourselves a moment to breathe and remember where we are headed, and why we are going so fast.
