The Locked Room Murder Essay

In his short story, “The Blue Hotel,” Stephen Crane illustrates the conspiracy of silence. A paranoid Swede, residing in Scully’s blue hotel, spends most of his time expressing his worry that someone will kill him, basing his judgment off of the stories he has heard about the “Wild” West. His mental miseries soon become a self-fulfilling prophecy. A card game with Scully’s son turns sour and sparks a fight, where the cowboy encourages the son to “‘kill [the Swede]! Kill him!”

All the blood the police officers noticed on his shoes and jacket was reason enough to take him into custody, once the investigators analyzed Chase’s apartment they acquired a lot of convicting evidence like: a bloody blender,. 22 caliber pistol, along with lots of internal organs from some of his previous victims and to make matters worse Meredith’s wallet was found on Chase’s person; that resulted in Chase being charged with six accounts of first degree murder. In 1979, Chase’s trial began and the defense tried to elude the death penalty by pleading guilty to second degree murder and presenting Chase’s history of mental illness as a primary motive to his murders. However on May 8th ,the jury found Chase guilty of six first degree murders and was sentenced to the life penalty in the gas chamber.

The duo kill Brett, find the suitcase and are about to leave until a man hiding inside the bathroom attempts to kill the two. Though at point blank range, the man misses all 6 shots and the pair quickly neutralize him. Jules thinks it is a sign of god that he should stop living 'the life ' (The job of being a professional killer) and quits 'the life ' hoping to maybe travel to Europe or just go with where life takes him, while realizing all the people he killed and all the destruction he lay waste to.(Pulp) This example displays the third trait of heroism because though Jules 's job is to kill people, he eventually realizes that though he collects money and nothing disastrous has happened to him or any of his loved ones, that what he is doing is wrong.

In conclusion, in both stories murder occur in different ways. In the Telltale heart, the narrator as a servant killed his master because of his supposedly evil eye. The narrator is being overconfidence by allowing to search his master’s bedroom, which he kept his masters body. So, he ended up by admitting the murder. In Masque of the Red Death, Prince Prospero throwing a big party while his people are facing the red death knows as pledges.

In Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth became king by committing the murder of King Duncan. While this is true historically, it did not go exactly as Shakespeare wrote it. In the play, Macbeth sneaks into King Duncan’s room while he is sleeping over at Macbeth’s home. Macbeth, while Duncan is sleeping, then stabs Duncan with his dagger, and afterwards Lady Macbeth places the bloody daggers near to the two passed out drunk guards, making it look like they are the ones to blame. Historically, Macbeth kills Duncan in battle near what was then known as Elgin, on August 14, 1040 (“Macbeth - King of Scots”).

Introduction The narrative is strikingly familiar. Police are called by concerned friends or family to deal with an out of control male. The callers report that the suspect has been acting in a bizarre fashion for a number of hours and has been destroying furniture in the house. They are worried that he will hurt himself and are insistent that he be brought to the hospital for observation.

Her plan is to cause Duncan’s two watchmen to fall into a deep sleep from wine and kill the king in his sleep. Macbeth is supposed to lay the bloody daggers in the watchmen hands, but is distraught and does not do it. Lady Macbeth ridicules him for this and has to do the deed for him. She then washes their hands clean from blood and goes back to their chambers. Macduff finds the king dead and orders the bell to be rung and wakes all who is in the house.

The narrator then goes on to tell us how that he wants to kill this old man because he has an “eye like the eye of a vulture” (Poe, 64). So the narrator goes into this man’s room for 8 nights in a row, and kills him on the eighth night. He would have gotten away with it too, if he only didn’t hear the old man’s heartbeat coming from the floor when he was talking with the police, and ripped

The guy in the story murdered the old man when he was sleeping in his bedroom because the old man’s eye was like a vulture. The murderer suffocated the old man with his own blanket. The cause that created suspense in the story was when the guy murdered the old man. “In an instant I dragged him to the floor, and pulled the heavy bed over him” page 93. The guy was murdering the old man and the effect of this was the old man died and the guy became a murderer.

Narrative collection of events that tells a story, which main be true or not, placed in a particular order and recounted through either telling or writing. One example is Edgar Allen poems “The tell tale heart. In this story a madman resolves to kill his landlord because he fears the man’s horrible eye. One night he suffocates the landlord and hides the body beneath the floorboard of the bedroom. While fielding questions from the police in the bedroom where the body is hidden, the madman thinks he hears the heart of the victim beneath the floorboards.

She then pointed the musket at the men, standing across the room. Upon pointing the musket at the men they began to revolt. One man made a move to attempt to bring Nancy down. At that moment Nancy took a shot. The soldier dropped to the ground badly injured.

And he gets scared because he hid books he stole from the places where the firemen burned houses. And if the hound found out it would kill him. The next day, he goes to work and the alarm rings and they go to the house and he sees his own house. He asks Beatty if his wife and friends rang the alarm, and Beatty say that her friends did then she did.

Mrs. Macey has to live with the fact that she murdered his husband, In or out of jail. She is a murderer and she deserves jail, prison, or

there was a awful smell coming from his apartment. He had invited a police officer into his house to have a drink, the officer smelled something grossed later they came back and put him into custody. The officers had gone through boxes to find disturbing things in there such as: human heads and three bags of organs, chemicals skulls, painted skulls, skeleton, dried scalp, tools various videos blood soaked mattress and blood splatters and a King James Bible and they went through box after box collecting evidence. Jeffrey Dahmer was only charged with fifteen murders. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

Immediately after killing Jason, Chase made his way over to the couch and shot 22 month year old David in the head. Finally he entered the bathroom and shot Evelyn 3 killing her. He then took her corpse into the bedroom and sodomized her. While doing this he would drink her blood through cuts on her neck. Examiners say they found an abnormal amount of semen in her anus showing numerous