Robert William "Willie" Pickton (born October 26, 1949)[2] of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada is a former pig farmer[3] and serial killer convicted of the second-degree murders of six women. [4][5] He is also charged in the deaths of an additional twenty women, many of them prostitutes and drug users from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. In December 2007 he was sentenced to life in prison, with no possibility of parole for 25 years —the longest sentence available under Canadian law for murder. During the trial's first day of jury evidence, January 22, 2007, the Crown stated he confessed to forty-nine murders to an undercover police officer posing as a cellmate. The Crown reported that Pickton told the officer that he wanted to kill another woman to make it an even 50, and that he was caught because he was "sloppy".
The killer send two identical letters to riverside police on nov29, 1166. The letters included a poem titled “the confession” which offered details of murder that only police and killer know. The letter also including a warning that she was not the first or the last of his victims. The case remain open in some jurisdiction but the san Francisco police department has designated it unsolved and inactive. The first murder on December 20, 1968 attributed to zodiac killer were the shooting of high school students David faraday and betty Lau Jensen on lake Herman road.
Bennett Barbour In 1978, a man named Bennett Barbour was convicted of rape and spent 4.5 years in prison until finally proven innocent by DNA testing performed by The Virginia Department of Forensic Science’s post conviction testing project. On February 7, 1978, a student that was 19 years old, that attended William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, was raped in her fiancé’s apartment held at gunpoint. Soon after the rape happened, the victim alerted the police. When investigators arrived at the apartment, the victim described the assailant as 5’ 6” and weighed about 145 pounds. After a week had passed since the crime, the victim was shown photos that had possibly matched the description that was given to the investigators.
The Supreme Court granted certiorari. FACTS: • The federally insured bank in Eustace, Texas, was robbed on September 21, 1964. A man with a small strip of tape on each side of his face entered the bank, pointed a pistol at the female cashier and the vice president, the only persons in the bank at the time, and forced them to fill a pillowcase with the bank’s money. The man then drove away with an accomplice who had been waiting in a stolen car outside the bank. On March 23, 1965, an indictment was returned against respondent, Wade, and two others for conspiring to rob the bank, and against Wade and the accomplice for the robbery itself.
In 1932, after aviator Charles Lindbergh's son was kidnapped, 200 or so stepped forward to plead guilty. Nowadays, DNA technology can prove or disprove a suspect's story, making it easier to spot a false confession. But even with modern technology, finding out a confession is a lie can take time. In the 1989 case of the Central Park jogger; a woman raped, beaten, and left for dead, within 48 hours five boys had been arrested. The boys were interrogated, confessed, and then sent to prison.
The sheriff struck the rope with an ax and sprang the trap door, and John's body dropped. His pulse did not stop beating for thirty-five minutes. Just over a month earlier, John Brown had been tried and convicted of murdering four whites and a black man, conspiring with slaves to rebel, and with treason against Virginia. The sudden rush of the trial, it's ill-prepared counsel, Brown's suffering physical condition, being tried in a state court for a federal crime, and overall nature of the indictment fueled the fire of those who argued the fairness of the trial. To this day, Americans are divided on on the question: Was John Brown a martyr to be admired or a
This caused him to be one step ahead of everyone. Capone was finally found guilty on June 16, 1931 due to tax evasion. He was then sentenced to 11 years in federal prison. After he was released he was diagnosed with syphilis dementia and later died on January 25, 1947. Body Paragraph 2: Bonnie and Clyde was a well known criminal couple who went on a two-year crime spree during the Great Depression.
Graham was convicted of murder in 1987, after 14 yrs of wrongful imprisonment; the state gave Graham a £10 check and a coat that was 5 times too big. Whereas David Williams, Pride of the Canadian forces, Williams was set free, until further digging found that he had murdered and assaulted many women, he was finally convicted, after writings and photographic records were found. Additional research has found that accents can affect whether the defendant is seen as innocent or guilty. Mahoney and Dixon (2002) found that `Brummies` were more likely to be found guilty of armed robbery than cheque fraud compared to a defendant with a posh accent. Race of the defendant and jury`s play a massive part in the courtroom.
Supreme Court addressed the fundamental fairness of the juvenile court process in Kent v. United States. Morris Kent, Jr., a 14 year old was apprehended in 1959 and charged with several house burglaries, and attempted purse snatching and was later released into the custody of his mother and placed on probation. Two years later an intruder broke into a woman’s apartment, stole her wallet, and raped her. Fingerprints at the crime scene matched the ones on file for Morris Kent, Jr. 16 years old at the time -- was taken into custody, where he volunteered information regarding the burglary, robberies, and rape. While in custody, Kent’s mother retained counsel on his behalf, during which time psychological and psychiatric evaluations conducted on Kent had deemed him a “victim of psychopathology.” The court ruled that Kent appear before an adult court system -- where he was tried as an adult; charged with six counts of burglary and robbery; and sentenced to 5 – 15 year for each
Phase 4- Discussion Board Colorado Technical University PSYC336 Abnormal Psychology Professor: Bosede, Andrews By: Erika Santos February 5, 2012 Key Assignment Draft The following scenario is about a new patient name George and he is a 33-year-old male. His records states that he was arrested for stealing money of people that he was fixing their houses. The amount of money reach $ 100,000 and he bought a car and other expenses. Afterward the evaluation was concluded it was established that George has antisocial personality disorder. My duty as a medical student is to assist the on-staff psychologist by reviewing the evaluation in addition to that go over the subsequent objects as well as clarify the disorder that George has.