Upon a search of the car, Denise Fox’ severed head was found in his trunk. The police reported that the killing occurred in the Fox home between 8:30 AM and 4:30 PM, and the body was then dragged to the Marshall home. Marshall had also ran down a woman in the morning that Thursday who described the car he was driving. Marshall graduated from Arizona State University in Tempe in 1997 with a bachelor's degree in history, and most recently worked as a bedding salesman in Rockland County Marshall had a previous minor criminal record on charges of petty larceny and driving while intoxicated. Marshall plead guilty to the charge of murder in the first degree, three counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, burglary in the second degree and criminal mischief in the fourth degree, and charges of assault and leaving the scene of an incident involving physical injury without reporting, charges that stem
After each film the participants were given a questionnaire which asked them to describe the accident and then answer a series of specific questions about it. There was one critical. This question was ‘About how fast were the cars going when they hit each other?’ One group of participants were given this question. The other five groups were given the verbs smashed, collided, bumped or contacted in place of the word hit. The mean speed estimate was calculated for each group.
On May 29, 1917, a very sick baby boy was born to Joseph Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald. That sick little boy, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was sworn in as the 35th President of the United States of America on January 20th, 1961 (C-Span, 1999, p. 1). Less than three years later, on November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. President Kennedy was traveling in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza on the day of his assassination. According to the Warren Commission, established to investigate the assassination, three shots were fired from a 6th floor window of the Texas School Book Depository, one of which went astray and struck a curb, and two of which struck President Kennedy.
The incident happened around 2 A.M. when three of the steamship’s four broilers exploded; the Sultana could legally carry 376 people, but due to bribery from army officers the Sultana carried six times more than the legal limit. To this day the Sultana lay at the bottom of the Mississippi river covered in mud and grime.
She then goes on to bring out statistics of how many crashes have occurred (5.89% per 100 crashes) and the amount of children that have died due to these death machines, in an attempt to persuade the audience to agree to her idea of getting the cars banned. Masters then tells the story of “five-year-old Bethany” who was killed in the driveway of her school to show to the audience how dangerous the cars are in an attempt to get the audience to agree with her opinion. 4WD are not environmentally friendly. Masters mentions a study done by “Queensland University of technology’s centre for accident research and road safety” to display to the audience that it’s not just her opinion this article is based on but that of an expert, to encourage them to view these cars the same way she does, and some others do. She then states that due to their greater size the 4WDs have a “greater fuel consumption, more greenhouse gas emissions and higher operating costs” showing another way the cats impact the wellbeing of many in a negative way in the hopes of persuading the audience to see the negative impacts of these types of cars and make a move to ban them.
September 11, 2001 Terrorists of Middle Eastern origin crash three hijacked airliners into New York’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. A fourth hijacked airliner crashes in rural Pennsylvania on its way to a target. Almost 3,000 people are killed in the attacks. Timeline of Events xxi October 2001 Congress passes the USA Patriot Act, giving law enforcement officials more power to combat the threat of terrorism. 2002 Criminal investigation of the bankruptcy of Enron, one of the nation’s largest corporations, begins, leading to several convictions over the next few years on securities fraud
The United States has seen many attempts on leaders’ lives in its short history. Assassinations have been attempted on fifteen U.S. Presidents, resulting in four deaths. The other eleven attempted murders are often long forgotten by everyday persons, however the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan in March of 1981 has had so many numerous effects on today’s society that it should not be erased from the history boards. What could have started such a ground breaking and on going event? Oddly enough, it began with a film; Taxi Driver starring Robert De Niro and a young Jodie Foster, is about a New York taxi driver who saves the life of a child prostitute by killing a senator.
01/20/2013 READ 200 Compassion And Forgiveness Response. QUES: Write about one article with reasons that deserves our compassion and forgiveness with at least one example from the article and one from your life if you have one or two? Man who killed Angel pitcher gets 51 years to life. A very terrible tragedy happened that night when Gallo drank beer and shots at three different bars with his stepbrother before driving home off in the family minivan. Gallo was driving drunk and hit the rookie pitcher Angel and his two friends and killed them in a horrible accident.
It has shown in statistic, that the highest risk of death for young drivers involved in fatal road crashes occur mostly during night time, particularly near midnight and into the early morning hours and especially during these times on weekends. In the Sunday telegraph, it mentions that “25 per cent of young driver p plater related accidents occur at night”. Where another Wollongong newspaper article has a storyline where a 17yr old p plater was involved in a car accident at midnight caused by speeding, with 4 of his mates in the vehicle, killing all four passengers. The surviving driver was charged with four counts of dangerous driving leading to death. Due to this, the New South Wales government implemented new restrictions on provisional licence, making it illegal for P1 drivers carry more than one underage passenger between 11pm-5am.
CASE STUDY: BTK (Serial Killer, Dennis Rader) On Friday, February 25, 2005, Dennis L. Rader, also known as the BTK Killer, was arrested during a traffic stop in Park City, Kansas. Denis Rader was a serial killer who terrorized and killed 10 men, women and children in the Wichita, Kansas area between 1974 and 1991. (Vacca & Rudolph, 2011) Denis Rader was born on March 9, 1945 as the eldest of four children. Mr. Rader claimed he was dropped on his head as a child. Brain trauma has been cited in serial killer crime cases.