Based on all of the non-genetic evidence given, Pete Anderson is guilty. If the verdict was based off of the morphology of X. tortifolia and X. confertifolia, I would say that he was innocent since they are found at the archeological site and the Johnson mine; but that’s not the reality of this case. Although the three Southern plants from Utah looked similar from the outside with the white petals and yellow center, they have different preferences when it comes to soil and location. X. tortifolia plants grow on slopes near the bottom of washes with gray soils, X. confertifolia grows on mesa tops where there’s brown soil and X. cronquistii prefers grey soil but it is rare and appears in only a few places. The fact that X. cronquistii is only found in a few locations is important because the state agent realized (after consulting with the botanist) that X. cronquistii grows in the same area that the looted Anasazi site is in. It appeared that Pete’s innocence was about to be proven when the State Geologist said that the Johnson mine is in the same geological area as the archeological site and it both has soil with a brownish, silty top layer and a gray layer beneath it but…
Amy LaTour was sitting at her vanity before her death and that is how she ended up facing the ceiling when she died. That means she was able to see behind her in the mirror and would’ve been able to see the murderer. She must’ve been fine with whoever was in the room which makes me believe that Celeste is the murderer. Maids usually live in the house with their employer…
Amy Rowley, a deaf kindergartener, is the subject of this case. Her parents, deaf as well, attended a meeting prior to Amy’s first day of school to discuss services. She was to be placed in the general education classroom, have the use a FM hearing aid, and given a sign language interpreter. Amy had a successful year in kindergarten and the interpreter stated that Amy did not need his services. At the annual IEP meeting, the school proposed that Amy continue the use of the FM hearing aid, have speech therapy, and gave access to a tutor for the deaf. However, the parents still wanted Amy to have the interpreter. The school district’s Committee of the Handicapped agreed that the interpreter was not needed but the Rowley’s disagreed and requested…
The Murder of Cherica Adams, and the involvement of former NFL star Rae Carruth raised several issues. The case the prosecutor made was that former NFL star Rae Carruth conspired with three accomplices to trap and shoot Cherica Adams because she was pregnant with Carruth’s child. (Andrusko) (Fryer).…
Myra Hindley, a serial killer in England, murdered several children with the help of her boyfriend Ian Brady. Along with Ian Brady, she committed the rapes and murders of five small children. At the age of nineteen she met Ian Brady, a stock clerk who was recently released from prison. She fell in love with him and soon became under his control. She became the willing accomplish to Brady’s horrific crimes of rape and murder. Hindley's 17-year-old brother-in-law tipped her off the police about her crimes. During their 1966 trial, both Hindley and Ian Brady pleaded not guilty to the murders of four victims, Edward Evans, Lesley Ann Downey, and John Kilbride. Hindley plead not guilty to all five of the murders. She was only found guilty of three…
While doing some research on Mary Surratt I discovered that she was the first woman in America to be hanged. She was hanged for being part of the conspiracy theory along with John Wilkes Booth for Lincoln's assassination. Leading up to her death she still pleading guilty. In this paper we will discuss what events happened in her life leading her to the path that she chose.…
On April 8, 1964, Two months after the murder of Hannah, there was a 25 year old woman's body that was found 0.9 miles away from where Hannah was found, in the same river, on the foreshore of the Thames at Corney Reach, Chiswick. Irene Lockwood the second victim to be named had an autopsy that showed that she was four months pregnant by the time she was brutally murdered, which leads to her cause of death which happens to be drowning. With that being said the police linked her murder to Hannah's and the two possible victims that happened before Hannah. Though, a fifty-seven year old man confessed of killing Irene, after further investigation he was found not guilty because there was inconsistencies in events along with him recanting his statement,…
Starkweather homicide David Jacobs 6th Period Contemporary History • Charles Raymond Starkweather (November 24, 1938 – June 25, • • • • • 1959) Starkweather was born in Lincoln, Nebraska He was the third of seven children born to Guy and Helen Starkweather. Starkweather had attended Saratoga Elementary School, Everett Junior High School and Lincoln High School in Lincoln.…
Could a Lizzie Borden really have taken an ax and ended her parents lives committing a double murder, its been 120 years and this is still a continuing question? On August 4, 1892 a double murder was committed. Abby Borden was discovered dead upstairs and her husband Andrew dead downstairs. Both were axed to death in a matter of minutes. Officially the case is unsolved but what is known is that in 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts a Murder escaped from justice. In the Lizzie Borden controversial court case, the innocent verdict correctly acquitted Lizzie borden because she had no motive, not enough time to commit the act, and was wrongly accused.…
The Lizzie Borden nursery rhyme is about a daughter murdering her father and stepmother. The Lizzie Borden case is unsolved due to the lack of evidence. The reports say that Lizzie murdered her stepmother, Abby Durfree Gray Borden, then she murdered her father, Andrew Jackson Borden. This event occurred in Massachusetts in the year of 1892. The Lizzie Borden case is still important today due to the fact that it remains unsolved after 123 years.…
Friday March 11, 1692, during the day the community's minister, the Rev. Samuel Parris asked the girls to reveal another witch. They did, and what they said shocked everyone who heard it for it was Martha Corey a new but upstanding member of the congregation. However, she had never shown support for the witch trials, since she did not believe witches existed. Immediately they sent out to the Corey farm to interview the accused in the hope of clearing up this discrepancy. When she was asked, Martha Corey had a sarcastic response to what the girls said. This sarcastic remark disheartened the delegation who immediately called for her arrest. Her trial was the scene of much tension. In the courtroom Martha's accusers screamed in agony as they were forced by an unseen power to mimic the witch's (Martha Corey) every movement. What ever Martha Corey did the girls did also. When Martha moved her feet the girls did also, when Martha bit her lip the girls were compelled to bit their own lips, crying out in pain. This was enough evdience to persuade the jury of her guilt. She denied all that was charged upon her, and said they could not prove her a witch. She was that afternoon committed to Salem prison. She was hanged on September 22, 1692.…
Though there are some theories about the person responsible, the Black Dahlia case is considered unsolved by the FBI. The Black Dahlia case is the murder and mutilation of twenty two year old Elizabeth Short. Elizabeth was last seen alive on January 9th 1947 leaving the Biltmore Hotel lobby…
The muder of Meredith Kercher was covered very differently from beginning to end. Media bias was present on both sides of guilty and not guilty. The story was hard to keep straight as information was either left out or presented falsely. News articles presented soon after a story, is useful for awareness of the issue; however, exact details are generally not presented fairly or true fully.…
June 16, 1959 - Klara Frieda Tesmer, 24, murdered in the meadows of the Rhine.…
store owner Mary Lou York in Hamburg. She died from loss of blood as a result of two stabs to her…