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Unsolved Crimes: Weldon Klees's 'Crime Club'

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Unsolved Crimes
"The corpse quite dead" (Klee 6). Murder is a crime that is committed, and when committed a crime, the murderer is served with punishment. However, are all crimes served with punishment? No, but how does that affect our lives when murder is not punished? Weldon Klees was an American poet who wrote "Crime Club," which eventually went missing in 1955. Still, to this day, we have unsolved crimes. Even with our modern technology, our society can not crack many cases. These unsolved crimes affect people today with the frustration of the misleading pieces of evidence and the madness caused by having no closure of the crime.
The concepts of frustration and madness are found in the poem's body. The poem "Crime
Club" expresses that unsolved …show more content…

Every officer needs to have skills to be able to have the motivation to solve it. So if they have that attitude, they can solve crimes. They can not let the frustration of being unable to solve the crime lead to the investigation and the future crimes committed. As can be seen, frustration can also affect the solving of the crime. Equally serious, unsolved crimes affect the family involved in these crimes. It makes these families feel unsafe and scared. The article "Living in Inpurity" expresses how they react. It states, "Safety concerns even lead some family members to move away from their homes or leave their communities"
(Altholz). These families do not feel safe and must move away from the criminal. The failure to put the criminal behind bars makes families feel unsafe. In the long run, no matter what, the people involved in these cases will be frustrated and live on the edge.
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As expressed in the poem and society, people need closure from crime and react with madness if there is none. Others might think it does positively affect them. This …show more content…

It is essential to realize that the bulk of families of corpses need closure. An article called "Living with Impunity" is about how families are affected by unsolved crimes in their family. They are grieving and feel not crucial to society. These families believe that the investors did not care enough and did not try enough to figure out the crime. The article states, "Family members used different strategies to attempt to overcome or cope with the shame, guilt, stigma, and fear associated with the unsolved murder" (Altholz). This quote explains how these families try to get closer in different ways because the crime can not be solved. This shows the affected of unsolved crimes and that families react more poorly than positively.
Today, many people involved in unsolved crimes react poorly due to no closure. People can not live with the mystery of the death of somebody close to them. Understanding and processing what happens when we do not have closure is puzzling. When there is no closure, the reactions are adverse. Even with the police, it is difficult for them to solve the mystery when there are misleading clues—making fractions arise from the crime not being

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