Ashely Mervyn Coulston is known as the ‘Burwood triple murderer’ he murdered three innocent victims in cold blood on 29 July 19921. Coulston had gone to a Burwood house under the guise of renting a room in the house that had been ‘advertised in the Herald Sun’2. Coulston had a bag that contained a .22 rifle, ammunition, a homemade silencer and plastic cable ties. Coulston bound, gagged and covered the victim’s heads (using a towel or dressing gown) and shot each in the back of the head at point blank range3.…
In May of 2014 Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weir attempted to kill their friend. The girls stabbed their friend in an attempt to summon Slender Man, a fictitious monster who steals and eats children. According to the article, the girls stabbed their friend nineteen times. The attack was premeditated, Geyser and Weir pushed their plan of attack off a day to celebrate Geyser’s birthday (BBC). Through the lens of Slender Man case: Morgan Geyser, 14, in not guilty insanity plea, Geyser and Weir participated in two kinds of aggression, direct and instrumental.…
Deryl Dedmon Jr. pleaded guilty to capital murder and hate crime charges and was given two life sentences and will be serving a total of 55 years in prison. Anderson’s family asked that Dedmon not receive the death penalty. John Aaron Rice, another teenager involved was charged with simple assault and received an 18 year sentence. The third teenager, William Montgomery pleaded guilty in the death of Anderson and received a 19 ½ year prison sentence. Two other men who were not present the night of the Anderson murder but involved in previous hate crimes were Joseph Paul Dominick and Jonathan Kyle Gaskamp. They each pleaded guilty to hate crimes and received a 4 year prison sentence.…
On January 13, 1999, tragedy struck when Hae Min Lee went missing after what seemed to be a normal day at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore, Maryland. Then on February 9, 1999, Lee’s body was found buried in Leakin Park, just a seven minute drive from the high school. Lee’s former boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was seventeen at the time of the murder and attended the same school as Lee. They had an on-and-off relationship that officially ended in December of their senior year, just one month before her disappearance. Syed remained the prime suspect in the case and was arrested on February 28, 1999 and charged with first-degree murder. Throughout the trial, the prosecution claimed that Syed was so broken after the break-up, that he murdered Lee out of rage. Lee’s diary was brought in as evidence as she wrote about Syed’s behavior after the break up and details of their relationship. The prosecution also summoned a witness that spoke of Syed’s suspicious behavior, leading up to and after the murder. There were several pieces of key evidence and convincing claims presented in the 1999-2000 trial. The prosecution’s work convinced the jury to produce Syed’s guilty verdict, sentencing him to life in prison.…
Manslaughter is a crime that is unjustified, inexcusable, and the intentional killing of a human being, whether it be involuntary or voluntary. This is the criminal charge that Adrian Crump from Jacksonville, Florida had to face. He shot a 15-year-old boy, around 2 in the morning, who was driving around shooting rocks from a slingshot. Adrian heard a noise in his home and thought it was a gunshot. He got up and checked it out, then went back inside and grabbed his gun as well as getting dressed. He then got in his car and pulled up behind the offender’s car, and shot the boy because he put his hands down, and he said he thought the kid was reaching for a gun. During the trial the prosecutor and defense team brought up the two sides of the story. We were asked how we felt about the trial and how we would find him. I took into consideration Adrian’s motivation or intention, self-defense, the witness’ statements, and crimes going on around the city.…
We know this as he had brought tools such as a hammer and kitchen knife with the intent to use them to paralyse his victim and murder them. For example, Peter Sutcliffe set Rita Rytka (his victim) up by asking her to get into the back seat and when her head was turned, he tried to strike her down with his hammer but missed, therefore, he hit her again to knock her down and then again in attempt to kill her as she still wasn’t dead. Once he had raped her, she tried to escape and so Peter Sutcliffe hit her several more time on the back of her head, after she was still alive he dragged her to the front of the car and stabbed her with a kitchen knife through her heart and lungs and in turn, she died. The repeated hammering, beating and then stabbing of Rita Rytka, shows that Peter Sutcliffe had the complete intention of maliciously wounding, causing grievous bodily harm to and then finally murdering Rita Rytka and therefore, is guilty and should be charged for…
There were two brothers, ages 5 and 8 years, and their 30-year-old mother. No names are released in this article and the victims are only referred to by their ages.…
In 1993 two minors had committed burglary, and murder. The minors names are Christopher Simmons age of 17, and Charles Benjamin age of 15. The victim was a neighbor of Christopher Simmons. Her name is Shirley Crook age of 46. Christopher Simmons and Charles Benjamin had tied up Shirley Crook to the chair and thrown her in the St. Louis Meramec river. Drowning her at the age of 46 .…
On December 14th 2012, 20 year old man, Adam Lanza, killed his mother, 20 children and 6 adults in Connecticut with no valid reason.…
Biased testimony towards the defendant resulted in a prejudice jury. Very frequently, statements like ‘We heard the facts, didn’t we?’ or ‘Pay attention to the facts’ are expressed in the jury room. The 4th Juror cited that the murder weapon was a knife so unique that ‘the storekeeper who sold it to him identified the knife in court and said it was the only one of its kind he ever had in stock.’ The 8th Juror argues that ‘It’s possible that the boy lost the knife and that someone else stabbed his father with a similar knife.’ None of the Juror’s believes this possibility as they have already established their prejudices against the accused. The 10th Juror says ‘Let’s talk facts. These people are born to lie… They think different. They act different.’ These are not ‘facts’ but prejudice opinions made by the 10th Juror about the socio-economic status of the boy. It can assumed that the ‘facts’ presented in this case can be viewed as biased opinions and reports that impairs the true facts.…
In May 2014, a twelve year old girl was stabbed nineteen times by her two “friends” Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier. They attempted to please a fictional internet character called Slender Man by their deed. The two assailants left the victim for dead in the woods where they had pretended they would play hide and seek. The victim managed to crawl to a bike trail that was nearby where a bicyclist saw her and called for help. Meanwhile, Morgan and Anissa fled the scene and began walking to an area in which they believed the Slender Man mansion would be located. The police caught up with the two girls and took them into custody. While in custody they explained the entire plot, which had been premeditated for several months before acting upon it. The victim survived and returned to school, however, Morgan and Anissa were to remain in juvenile detention center until the courts decide what to do with…
The maximum youth sentence for first-degree murder is 10 years in custody. An adult receives an automatic life sentence and, under a new provision for multiple murders, can receive consecutive periods of parole ineligibility of up to 25 years for each victim.…
One late night, Catherine Genovese 28-years old was coming home from her job from her late night shift. As she was arriving home a man named Winston Mousley attacked her with a knife. She was stabbed, she, yelled but no one seemed to want to help her or call the police. The people said they did…
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On Friday 13 March in 1964, 28-year-old Catherine Genovese was coming home to her neighbourhood in Queens, New York late at night. She was suddenly attacked with a knife by a man named Winston Moseley. She screamed aloud “Oh my God, I've been stabbed! Please help me!” people heard her say this but didn't bother to react. People just didn't want to “get involved” which the said to the police.…