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    Murder Mystery

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    reporter Jed Logan’s last known words before his life was taken. We were working closely together on a story that involved a chain of murder mysteries that happened at Mission San Juan Bautista. He was there doing some research when he called me that day. Shortly after we spoke he was found‚ stabbed to death‚ on the roof top of that very same mission. The murders date back to January 1984‚ beginning with the greedy intentions of Arthur Hartnell and his widowed mistress Carmelita Boronda. Arthur

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    Otzi Murder

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    then support the idea he had someone go with him up the alps as well as why most of the arrows were not finished before hand. Throughout this research project i learned a lot of different things about Otzi. Most of which leads me to my opinion of murder. I was also surprised the changing of the what happened. There are several times I changed my opinion because of the new theories that came up and the different facts. I’m glad i was able to do this project because i was able to learn a lot about

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    A Brothers Murder

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    A Brother’s Murder In “A Brother’s Murder” by Brent Staples‚ found in Evergreen text book Brent Staples write’s about his younger brother‚ Blake‚ who took a very different path in life than his brother Brent did. In the beginning of the essay Brent writes that he receives a phone call that Blake has been murdered by being shot six times by a former - friend. The choices Blake Staples and his perception on life is what led to his death. It was just a matter of time before Blake either

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    MIDNIGHT MURDER! On the dark and cold night of December 9th‚ the great King Duncan of Scotland was murdered in his chamber. According to our journalist Andrea Ruiz‚ King Duncan was at the castle of his Thane‚ Lord Macbeth‚ the night of the murder. The night Duncan was murdered was very wild. People heard lamenting painful ghostly cries. Many of the chimneys were blown down. Some people said that they could hear screeching of owl and the horses were fighting the whole night‚ but still was a good

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    Are serial killers naturally‚ instinctive psychopaths or are they the result of a corrupt upbringing? Are you more at risk of becoming a smoker because of your genes or is it a result of the peers you socialize with? Now‚ these types of questions have instigated disputes among psychologists in determining who we are‚ whether it is a result of nature‚ such as heredity‚ or is it the outcome of the nurturing of one’s environment that shape our personality? In other words‚ were you born with a blank

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    These words were spoken when he was in court. Serial killers are interesting to people because their minds work so differently. Most serial killers like BTK‚ H. H. Holmes‚ and John Wayne Gacy seem like normal people but underneath they are terrors to this country. One of the first serial killers in America was H. H. Holmes. During the 1893 Columbian Exposition he lured victims in to his elaborate "murder castle"(Tribby 8). It was called the murder castle because this was a hotel that was set up

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    Murder in America Shamika Woumnm COMM/215 March 9‚ 2015 Amanda McClure Police Brutality and Murder in America Most commonly people have a bitter hatred for the police. This is because beside the news tending to hype things up‚ they continue to make the young African American youth the Michael Brown’s and Shawn Bell’s in their communities. With that kind of corruption‚ the officers that continue to commit these haneous crimes and get away with them make all police officers look bad. When in fact

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    Serial killers often mutilate their victims and abscond with trophies - usually‚ body parts. They treat their prey as a disturbed child would treat her rag dolls. Some of them have been known to eat the organs they have ripped - an act of merging with the dead and assimilating them through digestion. Killing the victim - often capturing him or her on film before the murder - is a form of exerting unmitigated‚ absolute‚ and irreversible control over it. The serial killer aspires to "freeze time"

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    and killed two of his classmates without even thinking. No one would’ve ever thought a young man like him would ever think about killing. All serial killers are often labeled by mental health professionals with various mental health issues; they often become another statistics but they are more than a statistic. Many assume there is a specific profile for serial killers‚ that they all have the same MO‚ they target the same victims‚ however they are more clever than ordinary people‚ and some go undetected

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    A serial killer refers to an individual who kills at least three different people on three separate occasions over a certain period of time (Bartol & Bartol‚ 2004). There are numerous stereotypes that come with the term “serial killer‚” but one in particular has come to the forefront in recent years: the notion that sexual fantasy plays a role in serial killings‚ that serial killers are sexually motivated (Seltzer‚ 1998). The role of sexual fantasy in serial killings was first brought up by Reinhardt

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