Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills Essays

  • Josephine Otero Case

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    1974, Wichita Kansas, four members of the Otero family are found murdered in their home. Father, Joseph Otero, and mother Julie Otero were both found strangled in their bedroom, a bag over the head of Mrs. Otero. 9 year old Joseph Otero Jr. was found strangled on his bedroom floor, a bag also over his head. The worst was saved for 11 year old Josephine. Josephine was found in the family’s basement hung from an overhead pipe. She was bound and partially nude. She had been hung with her feet a fraction

  • Willow Tree Persuasive Speech

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    Oh no. There was another one found. This had been the third one this month. I looked up and saw the police officers taking down the latest body from the tree. Their sirens and caution tape made it seem like they had the situation under control when in actuality they couldn’t be farther from that. These had been assumed to be suicides, but not this many teenage girls could have killed themselves hanging from the willow tree. All of its(willow tree description) makes it seem to majestic to have

  • Murders: The Jessie Misskelley Trial

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    On May 5th 1993, the bodies of three 8year old boys, Michael Moore, Steve Branch and Christopher Byers were found murdered in an area known as Robin Hood Hills in West Memphis, Arkansas. The investigation to these murders had seen three teenage boys, Damien Echols, 18, Jason Baldwin, 16 and Jessie Misskelley, 17, charged, found guilty of these murders and released from jail under an Alford plea in 2011. Firstly, some of the key elements of the investigation will be discussed, such as Jessie Misskelley’s

  • What Are The Stereotypes Of The West Memphis Three Trial

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    unfortunately that’s not always the case. In a community blinded by stereotypes three boys, from West Memphis, Arkansas, we’re wrongly accused for the gruesome murders of three eight-year-old boys. Based on views held purely by stereotypes, including the fact that they listened to Metallica and read Stephen King, the three outcasts were wrongly accused of murder. All sentenced to life, with the exception of Damien Echols the supposed ringleader, the boys’ thought their lives were over at the age of eighteen

  • Similarities Between The Salem Witch Trials And The Crucible

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    The Crucible vs Modern Day Witch-hunts A decade after the Pilgrims settled at Plymouth in New England, a larger and better-financed group migrated to Massachusetts Bay. This group was called the Puritans and they were the “non separating congregationalists” which means that they accepted the ideas of the Church of England. In 1630, The Puritans set sail and created a small colony in Massachusetts as a haven after they fled England because of religious persecution. Onboard the flagship Arabella