Benicia Essays

investigators, have speculations of who he really is (Rutherford-Morrison). The most infamous unsolved crime to date is credited to a man known as the Zodiac Killer (Rutherford-Morrison). He was active in Northern California, around the cities of Benicia, Napa, Vallejo, and San Francisco during the late sixties, early seventies. The Zodiac admitted

Vicky has recently moved from Keelung to Taipei, where she works doing PR in a nightclub. She has an overly jealous boyfriend, Hao Hao, who tracks her every movement, including her bank accounts, her telephone bills, even her smell. Her days pass by working, taking drugs and constantly fighting with him, at least when they do not have sex. However, she is tired of her situation and finds solace in Jack, a kind-hearted gangster, who also owns a bar. Gradually, she gets more and more comfortable with

Zodiac Killer By: Nick Pelach, Jake M, Oliver N, Avery S Topic: Zodiac Killer and Killings Main Points: His killings and hints he left - jake Forensic profiling- Avery Possible suspects: nicholas Modern advancements in the case- Oliver I. Introduction - A. Attention getter: "Editor, SF Chronicle, 5th + Mission, San Fran". Sirs -- I would like to expression my constant consternation concerning your poor taste + lack of sympathy for the public, as evidenced by your running of the ads for the movie

The first murders that are seemingly connected to the Zodiac are the murders of 2 high school students. On December 20th 1968, on Lake Herman road shortly after 11:00 the bodies of Betty Lou Jensen and David Faraday were found. The Arthur of Zodiac, Robert Graysmith suggested that a car pulled into the turnout and parked next to the couple, just before 11:00. Jensen exited the car first and when Faraday was about halfway out, Faraday was shot in the head. Jensen tried to run but was shot 5 times

A number of Long Beach police officers are also buried at local cemeteries. Several of them lost their lives in the line of duty. I’ve only included the two buried at Sunnyside. You can read of the tragic deaths of the others in my book Prohibition Madness. Thomas Cicero Borden (4/13/1851-3/17/12) buried Sunnyside Cemetery. On Sunday, March 17, 1912, 60-year-old officer Thomas C. Borden became the first Long Beach police officer to be killed in the line of duty. Returning from church that Saint

The Starkweather homicide took place in 1958, it was a gruesome murder spree that took place throughout Nebraska and Wyoming and had a total of ten victims. The murder spree began when 19-year-old Charles Starkweather murdered his girlfriend’s family. His 14- year-old girlfriend, Caril Fugate,came home to her house in Lincoln, Nebraska one day to see her family was gone. She was met with Charles Starkweather and was then told that if she did not comply by running away with Starkweather, he would

Betty Lou Jensen and David Faraday were on their first date but sadly the date took a turn for the worse and they were murdered. It did not take long for police to get to the crime scene but even though they arrived at an early time they were never successful or even close to catching the murderer, and the case had many suspects but they all led to dead ends and the case was besar and was not in the detectives favor due to the crime scene and timing of the murder. The crime shows exactly what happened

Lead detective in the Zodiac Killer case, Dave Toschi, dies at 89 The former detective, made famous by the Zodiac Killer case, died on January 6 in San Francisco, California. The cause of his death was complications from pneumonia, as told by his daughter Linda Toschi-Chambers. For nine years, Detective Toschi was in the principal team of investigators on the case. Although the killer’s first murders dated back to 1968, Mr. Toschi was first involved the following year, after Paul Stine, a taxi

lips trembling. It seemed as if at any moment I would break the position of attention: feet at a forty-five degree angle, knees slightly bent, chin just above the horizon, and shoulders up, back, and down. Though I always dreamed of representing the Benicia High School Panther Band as their drum major, the lone figure in front of the block of blue and gold wearing a white British uniform and a brown bearskin hat, it never occurred to me that I was finally there. There was no way I could not be nervous;

The Historic BDES Hall, at the old town of Benicia, is the perfect setting for the revival of August Wilson’s theatre playwright “Two Trains Running”. Based on the 1960’s era, Two Trains Running was during the hype of Civil Rights Movement, Black Power Movement, and the most significant event that happened on this era was the assassination of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. Two Trains Running is focused on the everyday life of Black people, justice and love. I was so excited to watch this play

Godly Metal. Stunning, glowing, bright, and splendor – oh, what a life with shiny, precious gold would be like… At night, I constantly dream of the magnificent, lustrous-yellow alloys, wishing that I had some for trade and business. Being a miner in Benicia, California, talks of seeking gold are everywhere. The Gold Rush is currently in full effect. Gold-seekers, 49ers, from everywhere had arrived in hopes of finding gold. I had always contemplated exploring and searching for some myself, as my colleague

NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY on 19 July 1871. The Northern Railway would build north from Oakland to Port Costa, where a ferry would carry trains across Carquinez Strait to Benicia. It would then build from Benicia to a CAL-P connection at Suisun City. The railroad between Oakland and Port Costa opened on 9 January 1878. Trains between Benicia and Suisun City began during autumn 1879, and ferry service commenced on 28 December 1879. Although this route needed a boat transfer, the CAL-P was seventy-five miles

The main region Zodiac Killer has terrorized was San Francisco Bay Area. Zodiac killer has not been caught yet. According to surviving victim Mageau, the man was “white, 5'8" to 5'9", the late 20s to early 30s, stocky build, round face and brown hair”. Based on Cecelia Shepard’s last word when she was found consciously, “a man approached [them] wearing a black executioner's type hood with clip-on sunglasses over the eye-holes and a bib-like device on his chest that had a white 3-by-3-inch (76 mm

two of the people he killed. The zodiac killer's first two victims were David Arthur Faraday, a 17-year-old, and Betty Lou Jensen, a 16-year-old. They both were shot and killed on December 20, 1968 at Lake Herman Road. It was in the city limits of Benicia,

Introduction Attitudes and opinions towards the homeless in America vary greatly from person to person, but most Americans can agree on one thing: the homeless need help. Despite the huge influx of tax money meant to help the homeless, hundreds of thousands of Americans find themselves with nowhere to sleep every night. Many homeless are forced to sleep on benches, and when they do, they can be arrested for loitering. Homeless shelters are known for falling short in the rehabilitation of the homeless

The rise of one of the most powerful countries in the world was not easy, it took a lot of effort, time and of course sacrifices to build such an empire. Before this country could continuously grow and expand in the right direction, a lot of conditions had to be met. America, in order to succeed and to achieve the status of a global power country, had to obtain stability on many levels, but that caused at times conflicts with the rest of the world and even with its own citizens. However, over the

The time that I have spent in the music program at Benicia High School have been some of the most emotional, stressful, and rewarding experiences I have ever had, and I cherish every day that I spend with my peers. When I joined, I was oblivious as to what I was getting myself into. I glared with prejudice as nearly one-hundred people, all lined up in a perfect square, screamed with excitement towards me, a naive, inexperienced, and malleable child. I had previously played drums for three years

admired my starving artist family composed of a painting mother and guitar teacher father. Going to church every Sunday, and watching Saturday cartoons with my siblings piled on the floor established a nice grounded family affection. Once I moved to Benicia in first grade, the dynamics seemed to change and by third grade my parents got divorced. We stopped going to church since we didn 't

these violent killings of five or more people in the year of 1969 resulting in the ongoing investigation of his identity. The Zodiac Killer brutally murder at least five people in 1969. His first killing took place on a road just outside of Benicia December 20th, 1969.The victims were David Arthur Faraday, age 17 and Betty Lou Jensen, age 16 both stabbed to death (Everything You Want To Know About The Zodiac Killer But Were Too Afraid To Google). Six months later, near Blue Rock Springs he shined

The late sixties and early seventies were mostly known as a time of overseas war and stateside flower power. Although for the Northern California communities, it was a time of fear and desperation. During this time a man, a psychopath really, was terrorizing the people with his deranged antics. This man was, and still is, one of the most well known and dangerous serial killers that the United States has ever produced. This man is the one and only infamous Zodiac Killer. Between the years of 1968