Susie’s dad has a heart attack at the end of the book. In the book Susie’s mom has an affair with the detective Len. In the movie and show a lot of the events happen at different times. For example: In the book Lindsay’s mom leaves towards the end of the book, but in the movie she leaves in the middle. In the book Mr. Harvey throws the safe in the sink hole with Susie’s body in it a couple days after he kills her, but in the movie he throws the safe in the sink hole in the end.
Meursault is found guilty of premeditated murder and sentenced to death by guillotine. At the beginning of Meursault’s trial, the judge questions Meursault about why he put his mother in a home, and if it taunted him. Meursault states that he didn’t have enough money to provide for care for her and that they were both alright with living the way they had to because they didn’t expect anything from one another. Meursault’s relationship with his mother was loving, but very distant. The director of the home Meursault’s mother was in, claims that she complained about being put into a home by her son.
The women who felt compassion and offered their assistance would be his next victim. Other times Ted would be disguised as a police officer or fireman ("Victim Studies 004: Ted Bundy" 1). No one really questions a person of authority, this gave Bundy the advantage. Bundy was very attractive and very charismatic, causing his victims to have a false sense of trust in him ("Victim Studies 004: Ted Bundy"
(King 93) Lester Billings enters the scene as he tells the doctor that he had killed his kids. He continuously tells the doctor he had killed them all and that he wants to be imprisoned. Lester constantly kept looking at the doctors closet and would twitch a bit, giving an impression of scared. Denny, first child of Lester, was killed by "The Boogeyman". He was left alone in a dark room because Lester didn't want his child to be a "sissy", he then finds Denny dead on his back.
2) What was Crippen accused of? Why was he accused of this crime? Crippen was accused of poising his wife and slashing her to pieces and leaving only parts in the basement of their home. Dr. Crippen claimed that Cora had left him, then decided to tell her friends that she went to America, and a couple weeks later got sick and died. The friends called the police and told them what happened and that they had no proof
Female Serial Killers 1) My name is Alicia, and I am doing my presentation on female serial killers. a) I picked this topic because often times people don’t think that women can commit such violent crimes, but there are actually quite a few famous cases of female serial killers. 2) Overview: b) What makes them different? i) How are female serial killers different than male serial killers? c) Why they do what they do?
October 2, 2012 Case Brief Cupp v Murphy 412 U.S. 291 (1973) Facts: Daniel Murphy was convicted of murdering his wife in the second degree. After he found out of the murder he called the police and voluntarily submitted himself to questioning. In the middle of his questioning the police noticed a dark spot on his finger and they asked if they could get a sample and he refused. The police did not respect his wishes and they took the sample anyways of what was under his fingernail. They processed it and later found out there was traces of his wife’s nightgown, skin, and blood all from the deceased victim.
Yesterday, the citizens of Verona were shocked at the discovery of a double death. Two young teenagers, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet’s bodies were discovered in the Capulet family tomb; both of them dead. Initial investigation shows that the two committed suicide. One by sword and the other by poison. It appears that Romeo went down to mourn Juliet inside the Capulet tomb when he encountered Country Paris who was supposed to have wed Juliet last week.
Mrs. Wright's story is told indirectly through a conversation between Martha Hale—whose husband discovered the body of John Wright—and Mrs. Peters, the wife of the local sheriff. The sheriff asks Mrs. Hale to accompany them to the Wright's house so she can keep his wife company while the men investigate the murder scene. Thrown together by circumstance, the women form an immediate bond as they begin gathering some of Minnie's belongings to bring to her in her jail cell. Concluding that there is nothing in the kitchen except for “kitchen things,” the men begin their investigation in the upstairs of the house and in an outside barn. Left alone in Minnie's kitchen, however, the two women begin discovering their own clues about Minnie's possible motive for killing her husband.
Wargrave uses this poem in a way so that each guest killed dies in a similar way and in order to that of the Indian boys. For example, the last line of the poem reads, “One little Indian boy left all alone; He went out and hanged himself and then there were none.” The final guest to die is Vera Claythorne, who indeed does hang herself, leaving only Justice Wargrave alive on the island. There were several guests who did not deserve the verdict of first degree murder. An excellent example is Emily Brent. The girl she hired, Beatrice, became pregnant before marriage.