Personal Narrative Essay: The Innocence Of Lying

First of all I would like to clarify that I do not intend to nor do I claim the boy is

innocent. I’d like to bring to the table that the boy screamed “I’m going to kill you.”

How many of us yell something like that to our parents? The phrase “I’m going to kill

you” is said then the father ends up dead the same night just a couple hours later. I

doubt that is a coincidence.

The older gentleman who lives downstairs from the crime scene claimed to hear the

young boy yell at his father hours before the crime happened. It is unlikely he could

have heard it with the el train passing by at the exact same moment
It is also unlikely that the older gentleman could have been able to identify

the young boy’s voice and the exact words. An oncoming train makes quite a lot of

noise. Even if the older gentleman could tell someone was saying something, there is no

way he could have made out a full sentence and voice. The old gentleman could have

been under an oath when claiming he heard the boy. If the man had convinced himself

enough to kill the boy over it, or was immoral enough to lie in order to kill the kid in

the electric chair. There’s no reason for him not to say it under oath. Second coincidence

is the murder weapon. It was the same one the boy had purchased hours before the

killing. It was a switchblade which is an illegal possession. The boy claims he had lost

it within a few hours of death of his father. While true, this is circumstantial. The

weapon was not unique, and are no fingerprints on it. The fact remains is that this boy

had the knife, lost the knife and then the murder weapon was the same. Even if it was

easy to obtain it does not show the sheer coincidence that murder weapon were the

same and the boy had just ‘lost’ it. How often do you lose a weapon? If you have a

weapon then keep safe guard as protection or used as a threat. He may not have