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.
In September 1983, an 11 year old female by the name of Sabrina Buie was found dead in a soybean field in Robeson County. She was beaten very bad, She was also raped and suffocated. As days passed , police got noticed that two teenagers could be a prime suspect for the crime. Their names were Henry Lee McCollum age 19, and Leon Brown, who are 15. They also were step brothers.
On a cool day in Salt Lake City Utah, Gary "Green River Killer" Ridgway was born. July 7th 1982 was a day that would start the change of history in forensic science, this was the day waitress Amina Agisheff would leave for work and never be found alive again. This event started a killing spree that stretched potentially 19 grueling years. The very next day Ridgway kills Wendy Coffield a runaway teen. About one month later Debra Estes reported a man in a blue and white pickup truck who offered the girl a lift but then brandished a pistol and forced her to pleasure him sexually.
Before the sun had broken on June 6th, 1996 Darlie Routier (26) of Rowlett Texas was pleading with the dispatch operator for immediate help. In this almost 6 minute long call (in which the police get there in 3 minutes and about 45 seconds in) Mrs. Routier seems to be in complete shock, as she begs the operator to quickly send police. However, in between brief periods of hysterical breathing and unintelligible sobs she soberly remarks how she picked up the suspected murder weapon and this could have tainted any fingerprints that were there before. It was her attitude that landed her in the media’s glare, however it was the evidence in this case, all circumstantial, that landed her on Texas’s Death Row. In this paper I aim to highlight and elaborate
On December 24, 1968, a 10-year-old girl named Pamela Powers went missing in Des Moines, Iowa. Henry Williams, who had recently escaped a mental hospital, was seen carrying a “large bundle wrapped in a blanket” into his car. Without anyone being able to see what was in the bundle he drove 160 miles east of Des Moines where he abandoned his car. Henry Williams called a lawyer named Henry McKnight, who then informed officers that Williams was going to turn himself in. From the Des Moines Police station McKnight called Williams to inform him that two Des Moines Police officers will be driving to his location to pick him up.
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.
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.
On November 16, 1983, a 28-year-old woman was attacked as she was walking home from work in Lowell, Massachusetts. “The second victim had been on her way home from work when she was pushed to the ground by a man wielding a knife” (“Innocence Project”). The second victim attack was less than
On July 8, 1981, three men forced entry into a home in Tampa, Florida. The five occupants of the home were threatened and then robbed by one of the assailants that possessed a shotgun. Afterwards, two of the female victims, ages 38 and 12, were forced into the trunk of the car, driven to a nearby wooded area, and raped by two of the assailants while the third remained inside the vehicle. Left tied to trees, they were able to untie themselves and contact the police, similarly to those victims left inside the recently burglarized house. Luckily, the license plate number of the vehicle being driven was able to be identified in an attempted pursuit.
On the day of August 15th, 1996, the carjacking that brought Antonio’s “involvement” in the crime had taken place in a St. Louis parking lot. As stated in the article, “Antonio Beaver”, a 26-year-old white woman drove into a St. Louis parking lot to park
Over about 20 months from 1962 to 1964, 11 women ages 19 to 85 were brutally murdered in Boston and in nearby cities, many were sexually assaulted and killed in their homes. Anna Slesers, Evelyn Corbin, Helen Blake, Ida Irga, Jane Sullivan, Nina Nichols, Patricia Bissette, Sophie Clark, Beverly Samans, Joann Marie Graff, Mary Brown, and Mary Sullivan were all victims of the killer known as “The Boston Strangler.” Albert DeSalvo is the name that’s most associated with the Boston Strangler cases, and although he was never convicted of any of the murders, he did confess to them. Mr. DeSalvo was killed in 1973 in prison, where he was sentenced to life for unrelated sexual assault and robbery charges. During the 1960’s when the murders were first being discovered, the technology was not as
Police were having such a hard time solving this investigation and were so desperate for a break that they looked for help from a well known nationwide criminologist to help look into the investigation. The public was calling in tips continuously, yet many of them were false tips. What would soon be considered to be the last of the co-ed killings occurred on July 23rd, 1969, where an 18 year old girl named Karen Beinemen’s body was found. Beinemen was found strangled and nude, her face was beaten terribly. She was last seen by a store clerk where she was purchasing a wig from, where she mentioned how she was getting a ride with a stranger on a motorcycle.
In overland park Kansas: a teen party turned into a possible mass murder Nineteen year old Asher baits works as a pizza delivery man for pizza hut. At about 9:00(p.m.) Asher was sent to deliver four pizzas to a house on Lowell Avenue. When he made it to the house around 9:20(p.m.)
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.
On May 2, 1998 there was a murder and robbery at a Popeye’s Fried Chicken restaurant in Pensacola, Florida. Cynthia Harrison was an assistant manager and was scheduled to work with Timothy Hurst at eight that morning. When other workers showed up at 10:30 they found the door locked. Tonya Crenshaw, another assistant manager, found the safe unlocked and open with money missing. A delivery driver found Harrison’s dead
