Young couples are disappearing, only to turn up months later, mutilated. The daughter of a big drug guy goes missing, Kay knows that it is time to get the killer. Through the course of investigating things, she finds that these killings are tied to past brutal killings. Kay must track down a killer who knows how to eliminate clues just as well as Scarpetta can find them. "Cruel & Unusual"
“Mild-Mannered truck painter told detectives that he was good at just a thing : Killing prostitute”(Modern-Day Serial Killer chapter 2 paragraph 2 by Don Rauf) Gary Ridgway was born on February 18, 1949. He is serving 49 consecutive life terms. It all started when Gary was a child. He wets his bed until he was a teenager.
Another day of work(sigh), Looks like I “batman A.K.A batcell” have to go fighting those criminals(bacteria, viruses, fungi etc.) again. I can 't believe it’s been 3 days since I’ve been born, it feels like it 's been a very short time. Anyhow, I hear that the mother bone marrow will be giving birth to another group of heros(white blood cell) and I think I need to get myself a sidekick so that I can teach him my ways to fight become strong because it is almost my final day as a white blood cell. I finally made it to bone marrow, it also looks like i’m right on time for the new white cells to come, woah there are too many coming out at once and I don 't know which one to pick. Then, I saw that cell, it looked pretty strong, looked arrogant and very tough for a white blood cell, I went straight to him and tried to talk to him and said “ hey i’m batcell what 's your name” and he replied “I am robin, what do you want with me” and I thought that he was pretty
For the past two decades, “The Innocence Project” with the help of updated science methods have worked relentlessly to get innocent people out of prison. Through DNA testing, they have been able to find new evidence that have freed hundreds of prisoners who were wrongfully convicted. Other factors such as eyewitness misidentification, false confessions, government misconduct, and inadequate defense also played keys roles in the wrongful convictions. The case that I would I would like to highlight today is that of, Johnnie Lindsey. Johnnie Lindsey was a 30-year old laundry worker who was falsely accused of rape.
Free short story, "Shag Lake Prequel: The Kiss" now available at all ebook retailers! Geri McKenna hasn’t seen her brother’s best friend, Sean Eastman, since he graduated high school. Sean left their little town of Pembroke just hours after she nailed him with a kiss behind the shed, never to be seen or heard from again. No calls, no texts, no social media to stalk online.
Dealing with this her whole life she’s now used to the echoes of the dead squirrels, racoons and the occasional cat, but when she was eight her gift led her to the body of a murdered young girl. The killer was never caught and the mystery remains.
Geoffrey Canada does an excellent job of bringing his readers to the streets of the South Bronx and making them understand the culture and code of growing up in a poor, New York City neighborhood in the ‘50s and ‘60s. In his book, Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun, Canada details, through his own childhood experiences, the progression of violence in poverty plagued neighborhoods across America over the last 50 years. From learning to be “brave” by being forced to fight his best friend on a sidewalk at six-years-old, to staring down an enraged, knife wielding, “outsider” with nothing to defend himself but nerve, Canada explains the nightmare of fear that tens of thousands of children live through every day growing up in poor neighborhoods. The book
The police found the older brother several days before, shortly after the bombing, but they were still looking for the younger one. The police believed that they knew the general area of where he hid. I can still remember watching all the warnings on the news, about how dangerous he could be, and even though I was safe, far away from Boston in the middle of Minnesota, I
Application for Work Experience with Victoria Police 2018 I have been hugely influenced by former detective Charlie Bezzinas novel ‘ The job- Fighting crime from the front line’ to want a career in the crime industry. Bezzina had been a respected senior detective for 37 years and then spent 17 years in the homicide squad.
A feeling of anticipation danced through me, as I opened the UPS package delivery of ReShonda Tate Billingsley’s soon to be release book “Mama’s Boy.” I am a fan of Billingsley’s from way back. I immediately read the back cover detailing a quick synopsis to see what delightful circumstances her characters Gloria, Elton, Kay, Phillip and Jamal; we know what touches one family members carries as a ripple effect touching others. Gloria, a Black mother, is living with a mother’s worse fear, your only child, a son (Jamal), is accused of the fatal shooting of a white police officer. Not in just any city but in Jasper, Texas.
Cincinnati Police homicide detective Jennifer Mitsch has a message for the those who intimidate and threaten murder witnesses: You have met your match. Mitsch, a 10-year homicide investigator, is so fed up with threats against murder witnesses that she is spearheading a new program to support those who come forward to talk to the police and testify at trial. The program is called CCROW and stands for Cincinnati Citizens Respecting Our Witnesses.
Mike Davis, the author of “Monsters and Messiahs” uses the imaginary monster, the Chupacabra to show its affection the latino population who see it with both fear and humor. Davis goes to describes the historical background to the imaginary and real who live in southern Los Angeles. In the beginning, Davis describes the imaginary monsters saying, “And, most astonishing perhaps, there was the great inland whale that lived in Big Bear Lake (in Tongvan, “the lake that cries”), high in the San Bernardino Mountains”(46-49). To add, he explains the different type of monsters, “If Los Angeles’s bad dreams in recent years have conjured monsters, like man-eating cougars, out of the city’s own wild periphery”(46-49). Davis gives insight on how popular
Many people in the world today try to cover up their darker sides with a "mask" which hides their true self. Often times, however, people's masks are removed and we see them for who they really are. Many politicians today do this when they try to get people to vote for them. They wear a "mask" to veil their darker sides so the public can't see their flaws. The narrator in "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allen Poe and the character Tom Walker in "The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving wear "masks" to cover up their darker character traits.
Book Report - Prime Suspect by: Lynda La Plante. Answers to questions given in the classroom: 1) The book is called "Prime Suspect" and the author is Lynda La Plante. The book has 80 pages; the main character is Jane Tennison.