Case Study: Lester Street Murders

In Garden City, on November 18, 1959 bloodstains were found leading to the Clutter murder case last week. These bloodstains were found on the Arkansas River bridge near the Herbert Clutter farm. County Attorney Duane West confirmed that they had not determined if the blood stains was human blood or from an animal. He said there are many pheasant hunters around the area and is very possible the stains came from an animal. The stains, fingerprints, rope and tape were taken from the house and to be sent to the Kansas Bureau of investigation laboratory in Topeka to be analyzed today. Duane West also said that they do not know if the fingerprints found in the home were from the victims or other people. At the new conference there was a KBI Agent

Murder on a Sunday Morning, is an Oscar award-winning documentary that tells of the conviction and trial of 15-year-old Brenton Butler for the death of Mary Ann Stephens in Jacksonville, Florida of May 2000. The film is a 111-minute movie directed by Jean-Xavier de Lastrade. The plot originates from the incident of Mary Ann Stephens being shot in the head by a black assailant; and then begins to unravel as Brenton Butler is arrested 90 minutes after the murder has occurred. Pat McGuinness, one of the main interviewees in the movie, takes up the case and defends Brenton Butler. The documentary presents the film from the trial, as well as interviews and investigations that Pat McGuinness and his partner Ann Finnel performed to gather facts for

Wallace Biggie was one of the most powerful rappers before getting murdered in drive by shooting in March of 1997. At time he was killed the police had many theories of why he got murdered on that day. The police had multiple suspects about who did it but wasn’t sure of who or why they murdered Biggie Smalls. On that day Biggie was on his way to the hotel from the music party. When his SUV came up to the stop light, he could hear someone call his name, so he rolled his back window down to see who that’s when he was shot multiple times in the torso and then the suspects drove away from the murder.

Back in 1999, on January 13th right after school lets out in Baltimore city, Hae Min Lee’s life is taken from her. The holes and unanswered questions in her case make it intriguing, and confusing to answer who did it? Adnan Syed, Hae’s ex-boyfriend is the one they ultimately end up turning to as the perpetrator of the crime. Adnan has sentenced a life penalty for the felony. Even though there could be a refute with the evidence saying Adnan was guilty, there is too little to make a strong case with no question or hard evidence counteracting why he is innocent. There are crossroads with the Jay Wilds- a friend of Adnan 's at the time hearing, along with the cellphone records. “Jay 's story wasn 't just the foundation of the state 's case against Adnan. It was the state 's case against Adnan”(Sarah Kenick). Adnan Syed was wrongfully convicted due to unsettled answers and evidence in the hearings of Jay Wilds and contradicting cellphone records.

What decision-making methods were utilized in the case? According to Charles E. Lindblom, there are two types of decision-making methods: the root method and the branch method. The root method, which he also calls he rational-comprehensive method, is an approach to decision-making where an individual chooses an objective and ranks all the relevant values in obtaining the objective. The person making the decision must “formulate many possible alternatives to achieve the stated objective.” This type of method is heavily based upon theory. In addition, the second type of method Linblom talked about is the branch method, which he also called the successive limited comparisons method. This method involves the decision-maker selecting “among the

On the 9th of October, Robert Sheldon was found lying on the tainted red grass of Oak Park. The park was described to be “about two blocks square, with a fountain in the middle and a small swimming pool for little kids.” Police investigators ran through a body analysis showing Sheldon was stabbed by a switchblade around two-thirty in the morning. Hours later after the body was found, police went around asking Sheldon’s family and friends. Three kids, who are witnesses say Ponyboy Curtis and Johnny Cade were responsible. According to Sheldon’s friend, Randy Anderson, that was not the case. He simply stated, “It was our fault and that Curtis and Cade only fought back in self-defense.”

Just a few days ago Robert “Bob” Sheldon, 18, was pronounced dead at the local park fountain in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The police investigated the crime scene and concluded the cause of death was stab wounds in the abdomen. We can determine Bob and his friend David attempted murder on Ponyboy Curtis, 14, and Johnny Cade, 16. Ponyboy and Johnny have now been confirmed suspects in the case. Unfortunately, they went missing right after the crime was committed. The cops were planning to search in Texas, but Johnny, Ponyboy, and Dallas Winston, 17, recently checked into the hospital. When asked what happened Ponyboy said, “We(Johnny and I) caught a train to Windrixville and stayed in an abandoned church. We left to eat, but when we came back the

The nonfiction book, Jumped, Fell, or Pushed: How Forensics Solved 50 “Perfect” Murders, is an informative and well written book by the author, Stephen A. Koehler. Okay, you get two options, take Mr. Laney’s forensic science class at Lincoln High School or read this book. If you don’t know anything about Forensics, this book gives a sufficient overview of the subject and its counterparts.

As the circumstances of child abuse testimonies have only started being taken seriously in the past thirty or so years, there has not been much research on the short term and long term effects of children testifying in criminal court. All child abuse cases are individually significant to their circumstances and they are almost always complicated when it comes to children having to testify in court. The effect of abuse on the child, be it short term or long term appear to be worse if the abuse came from a family member, especially a parental figure and if the child had to testify multiple times. It is also very difficult to discern whether if the child displays signs of trauma if it was a result of the abuse, the harshness of testifying in court; in many cases in front of the abuser, or if it was a combination of the whole ordeal. There are also certain conditions, a child has that can make them more predisposed to experiencing the ordeal as extremely

Murder Inc., or Murder incorporated was full of brutal relentless killers. For the mere ten years the Murder Inc. was active, they were responsible for hundreds of murders. There was only about twenty members that the U.S. knows were a part of it. Murder Inc. was a “hit squad” for the Italian-American mafia and the Jewish Mob.

The murderer could have been anyone. Looking into the boy’s life, we learn many things about him and his father. The boy has been beaten all his life and he was a delinquent. His father went to prison for forgery. “He was known to be a compulsive gambler and a pretty consistent loser. He spent a lot of time in the neighborhood bars and he’d get into fist fight over sometimes after a couple of drinks. Usually over a women. He was tough, cruel, primitive kind of man who never held a job for more than six months in his life.” (Rose 48) The neighborhood they currently resided at was a poor, trouble neighborhood. Certain possibilities that he could have wronged anybody from prison, to the men he fought, to the people who he gambled with and owed

A mass shooting in a rural Texas church killed three generations of the Holcombe family. Crystal Holcomb and her three children Megan, Emily, and Greg were killed. Crystal was also eight months pregnant. Crystal’s cousin told the Associated Press and when the authorities released the list of victims her unborn child Carlin Brite “Billy Bob” Should the death of an unborn child should be treated as a murder? If we do at what stage of its existence. About 38 states have laws related to fetal murder or feticide says National Conference of State Legislatures.In Texas’ laws concerning crime “individuals” are considered living human beings and include an “unborn child” Texas updated its penal code (laws concerning crime) in 2003 after the

Also known as the “Genesee River Killer” Shawcross killed 11 women and 2 children before being sent to prison for life.

This essay compares and contrasts two films, “Dial M for Murder” and its remake “A Perfect Murder” in order to analyse how these films depict the main female characters Margo and Emily. The paper especially focuses on the remake’s intention to present a modern version of women or wives, by looking at the changes in characters, settings and the use of phone as a medium.

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