James Rackover's Murder Case

Three murder case studies will be presented and compare here: Marian Bates, Martha Moxley, and Elizabeth Short. Marian Bates was a 64 year old Nottingham Jeweler who was murdered in front of her husband, Victor Bates, and children. Peter Williams, a 19 year old drug addict was released early from prison and was supposedly under “intense supervision”. Williams removed his tag and violated his curfew. He and an unidentified gunman who is still at large, raided a jewelry store on September 30th 2003.

A Christian pastor and his wife’s adopted son has been charged with murder after the couple was recently found dead in Alabama. On Thursday night, Pastor William Jeremy Hulsey, 43, and his wife Sandra Hulsey, 37, were shot dead inside their home in Hartselle. Priceville cops were called to the residence, and an investigation flagged their adoptive son as a person of interest in the crime, according to AL.com.

One of the women was raped and the other two were assaulted, but escaped before they were raped. Based on the descriptions and the similarities of the attacks, Los Angeles police concluded that the same person committed all three attacks—the victims all were attacked at about 6 a.m. by a man with a knife as they walked to a bus stop. The police soon focused on 29-year-old Luis Vargas because he had a single teardrop tattoo under his left eye. All three victims identified Vargas in photo lineups, although with less than 100 percent certainty. Vargas was arrested on 07/21/1998.

Ronnie Kray shot and murdered George Cornell, a partner of the Richardsons, pioneers of an opponent posse, at the Blind Beggar bar in Whitechapel on 9 March 1966. Ronnie was savoring another bar when he learned of Cornell 's area. He ran there with his sibling 's driver John Dickson and his partner Ian Barrie yet murdered Cornell alone. There are varying intentions offered for the homicide: Cornell 's position as a pioneer of a contradicting group; Cornell was debilitating the Krays; he had already offended Kray; Cornell was thought to have a section in the homicide of Ronnie 's previous partner, Richard Hart. Ronnie Kray was at that point experiencing neurotic schizophrenia at the season of the executing.

One of the men suspected in the murder of La Romain teenager Mickel Thomas was identified in Sunday night 's shooting in which another teenager from the community was injured. Investigators said yesterday, that the shooter who was identified as "Sweet Man," is the step son of a reputed drug dealer known as “Lion.” They believe Lion put out a hit on Thomas’ life following a dispute he had with Sweet Man, early last month.

Arrested in 1973, he was later convicted in 2003 of murdering at least 71 people and sentenced to 128 years imprisonment. Committing his first killing the age of 14 began a series of burglaries and carried out a murdering spree against local drug dealers, in revenge for his girlfriend being killed by criminals while he was in prison. By the age of 18 years old he had killed 10 people. While imprisoned, the man slaughtered his own father who was also serving time for murder. Remarkably

The Killer at Thurston High Summary: In September 1998, Kip Kinkel admitted to killing his guardians in their home on May 20, 1998 and the following day, strolling into the Thurston High School cafeteria and splashing understudies with 50 rounds from a self-loading rifle, killing two understudies, Ben Walker, 16, and Mikael Nickolauson, 17, and injuring 25 others. Kip was accused of four checks of bothered homicide and 26 tallies of exasperated endeavoured murder (for the 25 understudies he injured, in addition to his later ambush on a police investigator.) In November 1999, he was sentenced to over 111 years in jail, without a shot of parole.

Murder in Licey The authorities seek to attack the suspect dead four people on board a vehicle. Three people were shot dead and a woman was wounded in a car in Licey, police said Thursday, while the gunman remains at large. The murderer approached the vehicle, an SUV, on Wednesday shortly before midnight and opened fire, said Lt. Taveras. They killed the driver and two passengers, while another passenger was injured and is expected to survive.

These were his “practice kills” before killing the middle aged women who reminded him of his mother, strong and

The two-part movie “Murder in the Heartland” from 1993, is the historical take on the bloody months of 1958, where mass-murderer, Charles Starkweather, killed 11 people in Lincoln, Nebraska. Directed by Robert Markowitz, the main roles of Charlie Starkweather, and Caril Ann Fugate, are played by actor Tim Roth and actress Fairuza Balk. The film shows Charles, called Charlie or Chuck, as an obsessed nineteen year old boyfriend, with his girlfriend being the much younger girl, Caril, who was fourteen at the time. Charlie’s first murder is a stranger working at a gas-station, before moving on to killing Caril’s family without her knowing. With his first four murders in place, the remaining part of the movie depicts his remaining murders, however,

After they robbed him, they then beat him with a baseball bat and then proceeded to set fire to Cole Cannon ’s trailer. The fire department later found his body inside the burnt trailer. Both were eventually arrested for the crime. Colby Smith pled guilty to felony murder received life in prison with parole.

About an hour later, local hospitals pronounced the boys dead. Police charged Mireya Alejandra Lopez with two counts of homicide and one count of attempted homicide.

BRIDGEWATER, Ma. — Another arrest has been made in connection to the death of a South Jersey woman who was set on fire in Massachusetts, 6abc reports. Ovi Cruz is being accused of misleading police, according to prosecutors who say Cruz lied about how well he knew the man wanted for the murder of Ashley Bortner, reports say. Fernando Owens, 43, of Dorchester, Mass., is wanted for the murder of 29-year-old Bortner. Bortner, a Paulsboro native, was found Nov. 3 alongside railroad tracks in Bridgwater, Mass.

sion, Lizzie had several reasons to kill her stepmom and dad. The crime scene is another thing that hints Lizzie killed her stepmom and dad. For example, the placement of them is very weird. Andrew was laying on a couch with 11 whacks to his face; Abby was found lying in the floor with 18 whacks to her face, but everything around them was in place (Linder, 2004).

The O.J. Simpson murder case was about the former professional football star and actor, O.J. Simpson. It was one of the most controversial and talked about trials during the time. The trial was held in California and spanned from 1994 to the verdict in 1995 where he was declared not guilty. He was tried on two counts of murder after the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and waiter Ronald Lyle Goldman, in June 1994. Based on the evidence on the scene of the murder, the police department led to the conclusion that it was indeed Simpson who was the prime suspect of the horrific event.