Kassidy seemed fine. She had a couple of bruises and scratches, but she was okay. She spent the afternoon watching cartoons. Chad picked up Kassidy around 5 pm. He called Jeff and said that Kassidy was acting a little weird. Her head was bobbing around. The next morning Ms. Bortner brought her daughter Kassidy to her sister Jennifer Borners home. Her sister’s boyfriend, Jeffery Marshall also lived there. Jennifer said that Kassidy seemed sick and in a little pain. They put Kassidy down for a nap and Jennifer went to work. Shortly after noontime, Jeff Marshall went to check on Kassidy, because she had taken a nap, and noticed that she wasn’t moving. Jeff had made several phone calls for help with the last one being to 911. By the time the EMTs and the Kittery police showed up, Kassidy was…
While being married Costa fathered 3 children. The relationship began getting complicated due to drug use, causing irresponsible and bizarre behaviors. During June of 1966, at the age of 21, Costa brought home Bonnie Williams and Diane Federoff, two hippie girls, promising to take them to Pennsylvania. Costa told the police that he took the girls to Hayward, California after they went missing. Many believed these two ladies were Costa’s first victims, although he was never convicted of killing them. He was suspected of killing 8 girls, Bonnie Williams, Diane Federoff, Barbara Spaulding, Sydney Monzon, Susan Perry, Christine Gallant, Patricia Walsh, and Mary Anne Wysocki. While he was in California he started dating Sydney Monzon, they then moved from California to Provincetown Massachusetts. On May 17th, 1968 Costa stole surgical instruments and various drugs from a doctor’s office. In June of 1969 Monzon was reported missing and never seen again. On September 25th, 1968 his new girlfriend of one week, Susan Perry, disappeared out of the blue. Costa told Perry’s friends that she left for Mexico. Costa was arrested for driving with a suspended license, and for not supporting his children and wife, he was released after 2 months and began hanging around and doing drugs Christine Gallant, she drowned from overdosing, it is suspected that he drowned her but no one knows for sure. On January 29th, 1969 Patricia Walsh and Mary Anne Wysocki were on a trip to Provincetown and disappeared. During a search party on March 2nd ,1969 a woman’s body was found mutilated in the Old Truro Cemetery, this body was Susan Perry’s his girlfriend of one week before she “left for Mexico”. It was said that Perry’s body was found cut up into eight different pieces Two days after the first body was found, Walsh, Wysocki, and Monzon’s bodies were found buried together one and a…
The perpetrator in this case is Jeffrey Dahmer. Dahmer, born May 21st, 1960 in Ohio, Illinois. Dahmer, a white male, is classified as a serial killer and a multiple murderer after discovering that he killed seventeen men over the course of twenty years. Although Dahmer was born in Ohio, his family moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin when he was just a teen. This is also where he committed the majority of his murders.…
The O. J. Simpson robbery case (officially called the State of Nevada v. Orenthal James Simpson, et al.) was a criminal case prosecuted in 2007-2008 in the U.S. state of Nevada, primarily involving the retired American football player O. J. Simpson.…
Orenthal James “O.J.” Simpson was accused of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goodman in 1995. Twenty years on, his case still remains controversial, but why? Simpson was a star athlete until 1979, where he pursued his dream of becoming an actor (Harris, 2008). O.J.’s alleged murder of his former wife and her friend thrust him into the spotlight, catching the public’s attention, as well as every news station in the U.S. One factor that makes this case so notorious is that there were many flaws during the investigative process, and a lot of them lead to the outcome of Simpson’s freedom from his charges. Many of these investigative errors could have been overcome with rigorous surveillance of officers on the…
I’m Stefan Rebello. The book I chose was “Murder as a Fine Art” written by David Morrell.…
The Scarlet Ibis is a short story written by James Hurst, noted particularly for its abundance of symbolism. The Scarlet Ibis is narrated through the eyes of an unnamed character we only know as "Brother", who has a physically disabled little brother named Doodle. Brother is ashamed of Doodle’s shortcomings and pushes his physical strength often during their childhood. One stormy day, Brother’s cruelty, pride and impatience spurred him to abandon Doodle in the rain. Upon returning to the place he left Doodle, Brother was met with the sight of Doodle’s corpse—bloody, pallid and curled up in the rain. Throughout the passage, Brother’s behaviors were primarily egotistical and self-motivated. At six years old, he machinated to murder Doodle, though those fell through. Growing up, Brother not only ignores Doodle’s fragile condition, but for the sake of his own interest explores its limits.…
Klyne was one of seven people wounded that day in the high school. Janvier and teacher Adam Wood were killed.…
<br>Nanny has learned the lesson that love is not synonymous with love, and she thinks Janie is just too young to realize the truth. As a slave near the end of the Civil War, Nanny gave birth to her white master's child, who became Janie's mother. But the white man disappointed Nanny when the his wife realized the baby is her husband's, his wife went into a jealous rage; she declared that Nanny would receive a hundred lashes in the morning and watch her baby sold off when it is a month old, but he didn't do anything for Nanny and his own child, and Nanny had to escape with her baby eventually. This…
Driving is a privilege that people have deemed a right and some believe it is even okay to drink and drive having a license gives no one the right to endanger lives. With PEOPLE v. WATSON, the defendant had multiple DUI’s and was found guilty of second degree murder based on a theory of “implied malice.” This case left a precedent of ensuring that every person caught driving under the influence faces prosecution by signing a “Watson Advisement.” However, there is enough educational warning about the dangers of driving under the influence that even in the first DUI a person should be charged with deeper punishment.…
The real motive for Sandra and Elizabeth Andersen to kill their mother Linda Anderson was based on greed and power. Thus, insuring the fact that the two sisters should have received an adult sentence. “Probation continued to be the most common type of youth court sentence, imposed in 58% of all guilty youth court cases in 2011/2012.” Most of these cases involved theft or minor crimes therefor these girls were part of that 42% that don’t get off that easy. The major reason these girls needed to be arrested was their initial motive to drown their mother. While talking to the police and their confession to the family friend the daughters stated the mother was "wasting...money on alcohol" as well as had abusive boyfriends that turned out to be false. The only truth they got from them was they were unhappy that their friends had "better things like swimming pools and clothes". Then found search history of the girls planning on killing the mother. Elizabeth and Sandra Andersen believed that after they killed their mother, they would get insurance money. This compensation, the sisters resolved, would be spent on a trip to Europe with their friends as well as a large house, with a backyard filled with marijuana. This murder was…
When people in Texas die as the result of another’s actions, it is considered homicide. While not all forms of homicide are illegal, a number are, and may result in serious legal charges. These include criminally negligent homicide, manslaughter and murder. In order to help protect their rights, it behooves people to understand the difference between these offenses in the state of Texas.…
Leon 's story did surprise me a bit. The ignorance of the mother, and the family for that matter, is absurd. Why/how would you leave an infant for most of the day alone in an apartment while you take your other son out on a walk? Wouldn 't you want to give both your children the same opportunities and ability to grow? I do not understand how the family or the husband did nothing while this was going on.…
My day off for my job was today, but instead my time off of work became a hectic murder investigation. I’m Darius Jones. I'm 18 years old and I live in an apartment about five minutes away from my job. People would usually describe me as a tall, average built guy with brown curly hair. They say that I’m pale as can be and that I have a plain face.…
While reading “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe, the confession of Montresor creates two contradicting scenarios. Montresor’s words argue that Fortunato’s death was not a crime of passion. On the other hand his recollections that the murder was a premeditated murder. When it comes to the topic of deciding if Fortunato’s murder was a crime of passion or a premeditated, the choice is clear. My views are based upon how Montresor took advantage of Fortunato inside the catacombs. In the very beginning of the story Montresor revealed to the reader his intention when he said, “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.” Throughout the story the reader must keep in mind that Montresor is mad at Fortunato and is in seek of revenge.…