Summary: The Murder Of Linda Andersen
THE MURDER OF LINDA
ANDERSEN
ROMAN WILLIAMS
CJ1320
AUGUST 26, 2014
Lets Kill Mom
The murder of Linda Andersen by her two teenage daughters
(Bob Mitchell, “The class project” (2014) is a clear example of what started off as not breaking the law, but, after further review and supported speculation was found that the girls did in fact break the law by murdering their mother for illicit greed, motivated by visions of champagne holidays and expanded luxury. Their deviance, however, has been used in a narrow sense
(Quinney, 1965; Robertson and Taylor, 1973, pp. 61-62).
Perfect Family
Linda Andersen raised her three children as a single parent after their father had left. She had an alcohol dependency and suffered from depression. At the time
of her death, Andersen had two jobs. According to police reports,
Sandra and Elizabeth Andersen, aged 16 and 15 respectively, had become irritated of their mother
"wasting...money on alcohol.”
They were also unhappy that their friends had "better things like swimming pools and clothes.”
Because of their discontent, the sisters began to search on the
Internet for ways to kill their mother. Elizabeth and Sandra
Andersen believed that by killing their mother, they would be entitled to insurance money.
Binge Drinking
The murderous duo relationship is characterized by a strong interdependence in which both parties need something critical from the other. The dominant person needs the follower’s total loyalty in order to validate himself or herself and the subservient follower needs the power and the authority of the dominant person, so he or she attempts to become that persons shadow and to mirror the dominant person’s beliefs and ethics. Each receives justification from the other.
Buddies in Crime
A good example is the not so romantic relationship through which a dominant aggressor manipulates the weaker person toward murder. In the case of
John Allen Muhammad and Lee
Boyd Malvo, who for three weeks in 2002 randomly shot
13 people in the Washington,
D.C. area, killing 10, the relationship was akin to that of a father and son, with the younger man desperately in need of paternal love. Malvo,
17, had grown up in an abusive and neglectful family. He knew of no other way until he saw how John Allen Muhammad, 42, acted around his own son.
Horrible Crimes
It is often mystifying how a seemingly ordinary person can commit horrifying and horrendous acts against human nature, or even better, society and culture as a whole. Sometimes an accomplice is just in the wrong place at the wrong time or they are recruited because of a talent that the primary perpetrator feels that the eligible accomplice has that can be useful in carrying out their monstrous crime.
However, many times the accomplice is a willing participant in the
Criminalistics duo.
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After formulating a murder plan, Elizabeth and Sandra
Andersen informed their friends, who both encouraged the sisters and laughed at the idea of murdering Linda
Andersen. During lunchtime on January 18 2003, Sandra and Elizabeth Andersen began giving their mother liquor in order to get her drunk. Their plan was to make Linda
Andersen fully inebriated so that she could not resist their attack. Linda Andersen was also given painkillers by her daughters, to slow down her heartbeat. The Plan to Kill
Sandra and Elizabeth Andersen filled the family bathtub with water and took Linda Andersen to the bathroom. Linda Andersen had difficulty getting into the bathtub; because of the mixture of vodka and pills she had been given. After putting gloves on,
Sandra and Elizabeth gave their mother a massage. Within minutes, according to police reports, Sandra Andersen instructed her mother to lie on her stomach so that she could scrub her back. Sandra Andersen instantly pulled her mother 's head down and did not let go.
After four minutes, Sandra
Andersen released her mother 's head and found Linda Andersen to be dead.
Caught
A year after the murder,
Sandra and Elizabeth
Andersen held a party.
Sandra, who was drunk, told a male at the party about the murder of Linda Andersen that both she and Elizabeth had committed. He later went to the police to report what he was told. Sandra and
Elizabeth Andersen were subsequently arrested, tried, and sentenced to 10 years in prison. In Conclusion
It was concluded that the girls were longing for the love and affection they previously received from a two-parent nuclear family. With the father out of the house, they felt the love was divided and they attempted to devise ways to rekindle the romance of both parents with no success, thus elimination of the perceived problem parent was the only absolute solution in their immature minds (Luetwyler,
Henry (2010), Crime in
Partners; The Parent Killers).
References
Frank E. Hagan, “Research Methods in
Criminal Justice and Criminology,” fifth ed. (Boston: Allyn & Bacon,
2000).
Terence P. Thornberry and Marvin D.
Krohn, “The Self Report Method for
Measuring Delinquency and Crime,”
(Criminal Justice 2000, Washington,
DC: National Institute of Justice,
2000), p. 34.
Marvin Wolfgang and Franco
Ferracuti, “The Subculture of
Violence: Towards an Integrated
Theory in Criminology, (1967; reprint,
Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1982).
ANDERSEN
ROMAN WILLIAMS
CJ1320
AUGUST 26, 2014
Lets Kill Mom
The murder of Linda Andersen by her two teenage daughters
(Bob Mitchell, “The class project” (2014) is a clear example of what started off as not breaking the law, but, after further review and supported speculation was found that the girls did in fact break the law by murdering their mother for illicit greed, motivated by visions of champagne holidays and expanded luxury. Their deviance, however, has been used in a narrow sense
(Quinney, 1965; Robertson and Taylor, 1973, pp. 61-62).
Perfect Family
Linda Andersen raised her three children as a single parent after their father had left. She had an alcohol dependency and suffered from depression. At the time
of her death, Andersen had two jobs. According to police reports,
Sandra and Elizabeth Andersen, aged 16 and 15 respectively, had become irritated of their mother
"wasting...money on alcohol.”
They were also unhappy that their friends had "better things like swimming pools and clothes.”
Because of their discontent, the sisters began to search on the
Internet for ways to kill their mother. Elizabeth and Sandra
Andersen believed that by killing their mother, they would be entitled to insurance money.
Binge Drinking
The murderous duo relationship is characterized by a strong interdependence in which both parties need something critical from the other. The dominant person needs the follower’s total loyalty in order to validate himself or herself and the subservient follower needs the power and the authority of the dominant person, so he or she attempts to become that persons shadow and to mirror the dominant person’s beliefs and ethics. Each receives justification from the other.
Buddies in Crime
A good example is the not so romantic relationship through which a dominant aggressor manipulates the weaker person toward murder. In the case of
John Allen Muhammad and Lee
Boyd Malvo, who for three weeks in 2002 randomly shot
13 people in the Washington,
D.C. area, killing 10, the relationship was akin to that of a father and son, with the younger man desperately in need of paternal love. Malvo,
17, had grown up in an abusive and neglectful family. He knew of no other way until he saw how John Allen Muhammad, 42, acted around his own son.
Horrible Crimes
It is often mystifying how a seemingly ordinary person can commit horrifying and horrendous acts against human nature, or even better, society and culture as a whole. Sometimes an accomplice is just in the wrong place at the wrong time or they are recruited because of a talent that the primary perpetrator feels that the eligible accomplice has that can be useful in carrying out their monstrous crime.
However, many times the accomplice is a willing participant in the
Criminalistics duo.
Share the News
After formulating a murder plan, Elizabeth and Sandra
Andersen informed their friends, who both encouraged the sisters and laughed at the idea of murdering Linda
Andersen. During lunchtime on January 18 2003, Sandra and Elizabeth Andersen began giving their mother liquor in order to get her drunk. Their plan was to make Linda
Andersen fully inebriated so that she could not resist their attack. Linda Andersen was also given painkillers by her daughters, to slow down her heartbeat. The Plan to Kill
Sandra and Elizabeth Andersen filled the family bathtub with water and took Linda Andersen to the bathroom. Linda Andersen had difficulty getting into the bathtub; because of the mixture of vodka and pills she had been given. After putting gloves on,
Sandra and Elizabeth gave their mother a massage. Within minutes, according to police reports, Sandra Andersen instructed her mother to lie on her stomach so that she could scrub her back. Sandra Andersen instantly pulled her mother 's head down and did not let go.
After four minutes, Sandra
Andersen released her mother 's head and found Linda Andersen to be dead.
Caught
A year after the murder,
Sandra and Elizabeth
Andersen held a party.
Sandra, who was drunk, told a male at the party about the murder of Linda Andersen that both she and Elizabeth had committed. He later went to the police to report what he was told. Sandra and
Elizabeth Andersen were subsequently arrested, tried, and sentenced to 10 years in prison. In Conclusion
It was concluded that the girls were longing for the love and affection they previously received from a two-parent nuclear family. With the father out of the house, they felt the love was divided and they attempted to devise ways to rekindle the romance of both parents with no success, thus elimination of the perceived problem parent was the only absolute solution in their immature minds (Luetwyler,
Henry (2010), Crime in
Partners; The Parent Killers).
References
Frank E. Hagan, “Research Methods in
Criminal Justice and Criminology,” fifth ed. (Boston: Allyn & Bacon,
2000).
Terence P. Thornberry and Marvin D.
Krohn, “The Self Report Method for
Measuring Delinquency and Crime,”
(Criminal Justice 2000, Washington,
DC: National Institute of Justice,
2000), p. 34.
Marvin Wolfgang and Franco
Ferracuti, “The Subculture of
Violence: Towards an Integrated
Theory in Criminology, (1967; reprint,
Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1982).