Recently I watched the film “An American Crime”, and it really affected me. This horrifying movie is a true story based on a 1960’s murder case in Indiana involving Sylvia and Jenny Lykins. At ages 15 and 16 these two sisters lived with Gertrude Baniszewski for $20 a week while their parents worked in the traveling circus. Gertrude was poor and already had six children of her own. Several events varying from late babysitting checks to rumors of Sylvia’s promiscuous sex life brought Gertrude to despise Sylvia and punish her.
Maxim de Winter hates his wife very much as she was a profligate woman. Rebecca had secret relationships with many other men including ger cousin. She threatened de Winter and forced him to accept the situation and promised to play as a perfect wife. When she was diagnosed as cancer, she cheated de Winter by saying that she had a child with her cousin and almost made de Winter kill her. She was finally died of an accident, but continued to bother him even after he had married the heroin.
Reporters said there was a dagger at the scene, and a stab wound in her upper abdomen. She will be missed dearly by those who knew her. Although, he "fiend-like" queen, the collaborator and partner of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth has said to possibly have committed suicide. Lady Macbeth, as it is known from a reliable source, had been insomniac for many a days, which is supposed to be an outcome of her sense of guilt. She could no longer bear what she along with her husband did so far, and finally, she gave up.
Many men fell for this and in my opinion she became very powerful in a sense. I believe Cathy was a very selfish character. While reading East of Eden I thought that she might have had mental problems. I was furious that she tried to kill her baby and later on lied about why say tried to do such a thing. Then when she gave birth to her twins sons, she acted as if she did not want them and I believe that Cathy was selfish was because she shot her husband in the shoulder.
The horse crushed Emily and her skull shatter on impact, rendering her mortally wounded, four days later she died in hospital. However the horse and the jockey survived. Many people thought that Emily wanted to die, however new evidence suggests that she did not want to die. There is a lot of evidence for and against, and had become an accepted fact that she committed suicide since the incident. However, now many historians are rethinking the reasons behind Emily Davison’s death.
Kimberly Prine 4/21/15 CJ 112 Assignment #4 Psychological Theories Aileen Carol Wuornos was a serial killer who had killed seven men, widely believed to be the United States’ first female serial killer. She was convicted for six of the murders and sentenced to death, ultimately meeting her end through execution by lethal injection. The product of a highly dysfunctional marriage, Aileen had been subjected to horrific tortures as a young girl. Her father was a psychopathic pedophile who was in jail at the time of her birth while her mother was an immature teenager who abandoned Aileen and her brother. Brought up by her grandparents, she found herself the victim of rampant childhood sexual abuse at the hands of her grandfather.
Khyra Isheq A girl of seven who was allowed to die by a failed Social Services Khyra Isheq was beaten with a cane and was allowed to starve and eventually die a slow and painful death by her mother Angela Gordon and her step father Junaid Abuhamza. This happened to Khyra even though she was being monitored and visited by at least nine Social Workers, Teachers, Education Officers and even the Police. Many of the people who visited Khyra were simply fobbed off by her mother. Her step father who was found to be a Schizophrenic believed that Khyra was possessed by an evil spirit called a “Jinn” and that Khyra could only be saved by having the spirit starved and beaten out of her. Once Khyra had started to lose weight she was removed from mainstream school and was instead taught from home by her mother.
“… Who was it that wrote to the chemist saying his wife was a prostitute? And who was it that gave the lollipop man a nervous breakdown?” We also learn that the ‘kiddy’ has died of Leukemia and that the ‘couple opposite’ were actually going to visit him in the hospital every night. She then is given a suspended sentence and has to get regular visits from social workers, both of whom Miss Ruddock doesn’t like. You would think Miss Ruddock would redeem herself, instead Miss Ruddock continues to write letters this time to report the policeman whom she thinks is having an affair with the woman in ‘no. 56’.
She once told her brother that she thought that the devil was inside her. After Andrea Yates’ dad pasted away, her condition worsened and she had a new diagnosis which was schizophrenia. Later on in jail Andrea Yates was also diagnosed with bipolar disorder. When Andrea Yates murdered her children she drowns them in a bath tub one by one. She held the children under the water until they stopped fighting.
She was alcoholic and drug-addicted due to her emotional imbalance and the problems of insecurity she had. On August 5th 1962, Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her bedroom with a phone near her, the FBI announced the case as a probable suicide, but there are unsolved mysteries. Nobody knows exactly what happened to Marilyn Monroe, but one thing is true, she had a tragical end.