Gwen Araurajo Murder Essay

An Investigative Approach to
Gwen Araujo’s Murder
Case

Diya Moliki
College of Public Affairs (B.S Criminal Justice)
Supervisor: Dr. Berry Grant
University of Baltimore
November 27, 2014

Gwen Araujo’s Case Description
Gwen Araujo (Edward Araujo Jr.) was born February 24, 1985. She was an American teenage pre-operative transgender woman. She was born in Newark, California. Gwen Araujo was murdered by four men: Jose Merel, Jason Cazares, Michael Magidson, and Jaron Nabors because the men did not like that she was born a man. Araujo, who was undergoing hormone therapy and going by the name of Gwen Araujo at the time, met Michael Magidson, Jose Merél, Jaron Nabors, and Jason Cazares in the summer of 2002. She was reported to

The society is a place where sexual identity is so tenuous that is challenged, and people tend to build a strong form of animosity against abnormal or irregular sexual standards. In this day and age, the general public expect a male to marry, date or have sexual intercourse with a female, likewise, it is principled to observe a male display masculine character and a female acts like a female. When these normalcy of life gets abolish; there is a problem. At a certain age, virtually every child believes in the law of gender (i.e. Boy and Girl) thus; any other gender except these two might establish a destructive notion from the perspective of the child and this could lead to

The address of the house party and the identity of the caller were retrieved and revealed as Jaron Nabors by the computer forensic expert. I informed the Alameda Sheriff County to get hold of Nabors for interrogation. Nabors who had already been panicking on how to report the incident to the police was arrested and taken into custody for questioning. After several session of interrogation, he disclosed where the victim’s lifeless body was buried. Nabors led me and other crime investigative officers to the grave site in "exchange for his guilty plea to voluntary manslaughter and a promise to testify at the trial. Gwen’s body was recovered near the Sierra Nevada Mountain where she was buried. I ordered her body to be taken for postmortem at the Medical Examiner’s office. According to the Medical examiner it is not clear at what point during this sequence of events Araujo's death occurred. However, the autopsy showed that she died from strangulation associated with blunt force trauma to the head. I instigated another interrogation with the suspect to provide further information. During the interrogation, Nabors provided the names of other three attackers involved in Gwen’s murder (Jose Merel, Jason Cazares, Michael Magidson). All four suspects were arrested and the following evidence were recovered at the crime scene where the faked house party