In the year 1997, Mr. Scott Falater aged 43 was accused of killing his wife. According to Falater’s neighbor, Greg Koons, Mr. Falater held the head of his wife underwater on January 16, 1997, at night. Even though Koons did not have a clear view of what happened, but the screaming sound he heard from Mr. Falater’s compound made him call the police. On arriving at the scene of the crime, the Police was confronted with a bloodied pool and the body of Mr. Falater’s wife, which had 44 wounds of stabs. Scott Falater was present at the scene of the crime. He had blood spread to his neck with band-aids on his hands (Jones 106).
The police carried Mr. Falater to the station for interrogation. The video, which the police captured during the night of the murder, displayed the suspect saying that he was not aware why the police officers were interrogating him. The suspect argued that he was sleepwalking at the night of the murder. Even though
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Falater was a sleepwalker. The evidence by Dr. Rosalind showed that the accused had the profile of sleepwalking and that the past records showed that he had been a sleepwalker. Attorney Kimerer argued that the accused was suffering from a severe stress, which related to his work at Motorola as a product engineer (Martin 10). At the time of the murder, the accused had been sleeping for only two to three hours every night. The defense team proceeded to explain what happened on a dreadful night: According to Attorney Kimerer, the accused came back home from work at night on January 16, the year 1997 and had a dinner with the family. After the dinner, Mr. Falater tried to fix one of the pumps, which was faulty. He went ahead and took out his tools, including the hunting knife, and working clothes from his Tupperware urn in his car trunk. However, the accused changed his mind and decided to do the repair work
Those weren’t his only brushes with the law. It turned out the he was a prime suspect when the first bodies found and was brought in for questioning. In 1985, he was accused him of grabbing from behind and putting her in a choke-hold. While as far back as 1982 and 1983, a witness saw one of the victims, Marie M. Malvar, get into his car.
Steven Avery in 1985, 41 year old Steven Avery was accused of sexual assault and served 18 years in prison for a crime he didn’t do and later was convicted of murder but whether he committed the murder is a mystery. Steven Avery is currently serving life in prison for killing photographer Teresa Halbach. He was convicted in 2007 and sentenced to life in prison without parole. There have been many clues leading to Steven Avery committing this murder although many people believe he is still innocent and someone set him up. In this paper I will show how the police department made a mistake and where he is today.
Detectives speculated that the killer wanted the bodies found, “to toy with the police” (Truecrimediva). Blood in the car was recently fresh. Next to the bodies there was found a golf club and three golf balls lined up in a row disclosing the location of where one of the bodies lay. Hanging above the other victim, was three partially deflated balloons. In everything that this homicide consisted of, the killer seemed assured that he would never be incarcerated.
Andrew Davis September 27, 2016 Forensics Mr. Malgeri Ronald Cotton Case Ronald Cotton was sentenced to jail in 1995, after serving ten years for a crime he didn’t even commit. Eye witnesses are considered to be the best form of evidence in an unsolved case. Mr. Cotton was convicted primarily by an eyewitness named Jennifer Thomson-Cannino, who was sure she identified the right male. Years go by and the case was re-ruled and the jury ruled Jennifer 's description as a misidentification.
Williamson told police that he had a dream stabbing and strangling the victim. His statement was treated as a confession. While in jail, one of the inmates that was in with Fritz said he had confessed to the murder. A person named Glenn Gore said that Williamson was seen at the restaurant the night of the
The problem with this killing and the others is, it broke the pattern. It broke the pattern because this killing did not happen on the weekend like all the others had. A suspect ended up being taken in but no arrest was mad until March 9th, 1984. On March 9th, Milton Johnson was arrested when he checked in with his parole officer. Milton was charged with aggravated battery and deviant sexual assault in the rape of Anthony Hackett’s fiancée (Blanco).
Michael Morton V. State of Texas In 1986, Michael Morton was having a normal life, he had a wife, a kid, and a job. That same year his life change completely. Michael Morton was doing his daily routine, as in going to his job, coming back to his wife, and kid. When he came back from his job, he found his wife murdered in their bed.
The hunt for the Clutters’ killers, Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, mesmerized the nation and left a lasting impact in Kansas, drawing journalists from across the country to the rural outpost on the Kansas prairie (Huffington Post). An unremarkable New York Times article, which was considerably small and short, at approximately 300 words, grabbed viewers and drew the audience. The column reported the Clutter family murder in the tiny farm town of Holcomb, Kansas on the Great Plains. “Popular headlines surrounding the Clutter family murders were often along the lines of ‘Wealthy Farmer, 3 Of Family Slain” with a photo of Herb Clutter which left residents in shock and dismay that a horrific crime marred the serene and presumably safe landscapes
State of Florida v. Brenton Leonard Butler is a case where the State of Florida accused Brenton Leonard Butler, a 15-year-old high school freshman, of the murder of Mary Ann Stephens by a gunshot to the head through the bridge of her head. Since Brenton fit the description of the suspect according to Officer Martin and his partner, they approached Mr. Butler and asked questions regarding the shooting. The officers later asked victim’s husband, James Stephens, if Brenton was the man that shot his wife and being he was the only eyewitness, the officers arrested Mr. Butler. It is easier to wrongfully accuse as an African American male of a crime and that was the accusations put against Mr. Butler.
Two terrified children, scarred for life, greeted James in tears as he arrived at the crime scene. It was April 18th, 1980, and F.B.I. agent James Washington had been assigned to the case of a man who fled while out on bond, and then turned up dead in the middle of the woods. Unfortunately, those two children had been playing in the forest after a rough storm and stumbled upon the victim, Mr. Richard Strout. Agent Washington will not find the killer anywhere he would expect, however, for the real killer of Richard Strout was the legal system. Who was Richard Strout?
On December 23, 1981, Thomas Sophonow, a Canadian man, was wrongfully accused of murder. 16 year old Barbara Stoppel was ruthlessly killed at the washroom of her workplace. Unfortunately, eyewitnesses mistakenly chose Mr. Sophonow as being the murderer. Eye witnesses stated that a man, whose appearance was very similar to that of Thomas Sophonow, locked the door and made his way to the back of the shop where he was presumed to have strangled Barbara Stoppel to death. Furthermore, while Thomas Sophonow was in custody, he showed an undercover officer a door locking technique.
Lejb Dojs Ms. Voeller English 9 Period 1 17 March 2023 Sam Sheppard: Murderer or Victim? Sam Sheppard was accused of the murder of his wife and didn't receive a fair trial. The judge was biased against Sam, violating his rights and not giving him an unbiased jury. Today there are a few suspects including Richard Eberling and Sam Sheppard himself, but the most likely suspect is that neither of them did it. On July 4, 1954, Marilyn Reese Sheppard was murdered in her bedroom at night.
While in prison, he requested copies of his case under the “Freedom of Information Act” due to the original copies he had were destroyed in a fire at his stepfather’s house. While examining the documents, he found multiple critical points of information that the defense never received. One of those documents he found referenced a man named Barry Bench, another suspect in the case. The documents stated that Barry bench was “acting oddly” around the time of the murder. A close family friend that lived with Bench at the time stated that he left the bar drunk and took an hour to get home; the bar was only a half a mile from his home (Santos).
The BTK killer almost got away with multiple murders. The case went cold after his final confirmed kill in 1991. It was not until 2004 when police started to catch a break in solving the case when he felt a need to communicate with authorities. At this point it was over thirty years since his first murder. In this paper we will go over the case and the forensic evidence that helped catch Dennis Radar, the BTK killer.