From the moment Harry took Dexter in he noticed his lack of normal emotion and feeling which led him to suspect that Dexter had been permanently damaged from his traumatic experience. This suspicion was confirmed when Harry discovered a collection of buried animal bones in the back yard shortly before Dexter’s teenage years. However, instead of seeing Dexter’s bloodlust as an enigma, Harry takes Dexter under his wing and develops a way to control Dexter’s dark urges. By killing individuals that truly deserved to die. Harry develops a “code” which consists of a formal set of rules used to enact justice on criminals who have evaded punishment by finding loopholes in the justice system.
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.
Errors in the Investigation of JonBenet Ramsey’s Death In the early morning hours of December 26, 1996 JonBenet Patricia Ramsey was murdered at her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado. At approximately 5:52am, her mother, Patsy, calls police declaring that her daughter had been kidnapped and that she had found a ransom note on the back staircase in the kitchen of the home. Police officers arrived at the home at 6:00am and conduct a search of the premises. JonBenet is not found at this time. The ransom note found by Patsy Ramsey is read and indicates that JonBenet’s father, John, and mother Patsy must pay $118,000 by 10 am the next morning to ensure JonBenet’s safe return.
On Sept. 10, 1998, she called her mother, Nancy Palmer, around five p.m. and asked if she could play with friends. Her mother returned at 7 p.m., later than usual, and found her lifeless daughter. Palmer testified in a preliminary hearing for the man accused of killing her daughter, Matthew John Breck. DNA evidence led to Breck, 32, being charged in January 2010 with aggravated murder, aggravated sex abuse of a child, both first degree felonies, and child abuse, a second degree felony, in connection with Anna Palmer’s death. DNA Solves Anna Palmer’s Case
Strangulation was his preferred method, the same method he often used to kill animals as a child. After the body of his first victim, Taunja Bennett was found, the media’s attention surrounded Laverne Pavlinac, a woman who falsely confessed to killing Bennett with her abusive boyfriend (The serial killer hit list). Jesperson was then upset the he was not getting the attention, so he first drew the smiley face on the bathroom wall where he wrote an anonymous confession for the murder, hundreds of miles away from
Kemper’s mother had sent him to live with his grandparents because she was tired of his eccentric behavior. Edmund Kemper, seventeen at the time, decided to shoot his grand mother “just to see how it felt” and eventually shot his grandfather when he returned home. He was sent to a mental asylum later for his actions but proved to his psychologist, through assistant work and studies, that he was deemed normal enough for release including expunging his juvenile records. However, he was still fascinated with killer which began his murder campaign around the age of 24. Edmund worked for the department of transportation in Santa Cruz and began to pick up hitchhikers, bring them to deserted areas, and brutally rape and kill them.
What physical evidence was related to the case? The main physical evidence used to solve this case was the biological DNA evidence from the vaginal swabs from the three elderly women who had been raped. (Saferstein, R. 2009) 4. What was the outcome of the case? In April, 2001 convicted-offender database got what was called a “cold-hit” because the perpetrator of the crime had been convicted of shooting at a residence that was occupied, which in North Carolina requires that the persons DNA be placed in the criminal database.
Sigmund Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis was that people’s actions were impacted by their unconscious mind. It was clear that Ridgway had no concern for what he was doing. He told a forensic psychologist, “I never really thought about it” (The Seattle Times, 2003). Ridgway lacked the feeling of putting himself in the victim’s shoes and seeing what it would feel like to be helpless with a deadly serial killer. The mental feeling that the women get when encountering Gary Ridgway has a major affect on their personal privacy.
I have come to kill you!” Grendel began to attack everyone in his way, eating them, and crunching their bones one by one. Once he reached Beowulf, he began to burn because he was evil. Beowulf told him, “I do not fear you, that’s why I do not fight you. Your own evil will
On January 29, 1998, Rudolph used a radio-controlled nail bomb at the New Woman All Women Health Care Centre in Birmingham, Alabama. (Noe, 2012) Eric Robert Rudolph was arrested on May 31, 2003 without incident in his hometown of Murphy, NC. He had been on the run from law enforcement officials and on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List for almost five years. “Rudolph pled guilty to the bombings at Olympic Park, the gay bar and the two abortion clinics - one in Atlanta, GA, and the other in Birmingham, AL - as well as two murders resulting from these bombings. The incidents took place from