Early life Bell's mother Betty (née McCrickett) was a prostitute who was often absent from the family home, travelling to Glasgow to work. Mary (nicknamed May)[1] was her first child, born when Betty was 17 years old. It is not known who Mary's biological father was; for most of her life she believed it to be Billy Bell, a habitual criminal later arrested for armed robbery who had married Betty some time after Mary was born. Independent accounts from family members strongly suggest that Betty had more than once attempted to kill Mary and make her death look accidental during the first few years of her life. [2][page needed] Mary herself says she was subjected to repeated sexual abuse, her mother forcing her from the age of four to engage in sexual acts with men.
Her death shook the nation. Patsy Ramsey (Jonbenet's mother) discovered her young daughter was missing when she found a two and half page ransom note demanding $118,000.00 if they ever wanted to see their daughter alive again. The note also stated that the Ramsey's were to not contact the police. Patsy defied the instructions and contacted the police and family members. The police arrived and conducted a search which started at the house.
Heidgen’s blood alcohol content was over three times the legal limit. Earlier that night Heidgen’s friends asked him not to drive. He chose not to listen and consequently caused the accident. Kathleen Rice, a district attorney in Nassau County, New York prosecuted the case. She states, “A 7-year-old girl is beheaded.
Markcrow, a mother of four, who admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility at an earlier hearing, survived her suicide attempt. She told police: ‘I feel sad, desperate, defeated and ashamed’. Mr Justice Gross sentenced her to two years’ prison, suspended for 18 months, and told her: ‘The pressures you faced were extreme’. 4. The original charge against the defendant would have been murder.
Izzy Dix’s Suicide Izzy Dix, a 14-year old girl, was found hung by her mum on September 17th 2013, after suffering months of being bullied by those she considered her friends. The bullying happened all around her; at school, online even away from either. Ask.fm was one of the main sites where Izzy was cyber-bullied, and has, as a result, pledged a request that the site is banned – to this date the petition has received over 8,000 signatures. Her mum, Gabbi, rang her school in Brixham at least 15 times. The last time she contacted the school was the day before her daughter took her own life.
Andrea also was hospitalized for trying to kill herself with a knife in July of 1999, then in the spring of 2001 she was admitted twice to a treatment center for mental illness. But then in June 4, 2001 Andrea’s psychiatrist discontinues her medications, and on June 20, 2001 Andrea drowns her five children. On July 31, 2001 a Houston grand jury indicted Andrea Yates for capital murder in the cases of Noah, John and Mary. Since she had killed someone that was under the age of six years old and kill more than one person she was eligible for the death penalty. Andrea Yates attorneys filed for an insanity defense.
Escobar was driving drunk on January 27, 1999 when her car collided with another car, killing a woman. Burke ordered the 27-year-old mother of two to serve 90 days in jail, surrender her driver's license for an indefinite period and, each month during her 3-year probation, not only clean the site of the accident that killed 52-year-old Faye Schnablegger, but once a month for the first year of her probation she was also ordered to walk through the courthouse for an hour carrying a hand written sign that read, "I am a convicted drunk driver and as a result I took a
In the gulf state of Veracruz, the state women’s institute found this year that eight women serving sentences for homicide — killing their babies after they had been born alive — had either had abortions, which has a much lighter penalty, or had miscarriages or stillbirths. They have since been released, according to the institute’s departing
Nabeel Basit Final Draft—PPP&L Journal Alford v. Greene—How an Unreasonable Seizure Led To an Unreasonable Interview I. Introduction Alford v. Greene dealt with the unconstitutional seizure of a young girl. In Alford v. Greene and Greene v. Camreta (which was consolidated into Alford v. Greene), caseworker Greene and Deputy Sheriff Alford seized a young girl and interrogated her in a private office at her elementary school for two hours. This was done without a warrant, probable cause, or parental consent, because they suspected the mother's husband may have been sexually molesting the girl and her sister. Deputy Alford had a visible firearm during the interview.
The speckled band A young woman named helen stoner contacts Holmes because of the strange death of her sister Julia. The girl indeed was supposed to get married soon, and therefore receives an annual sum of 250 pounds by her stepfather dr. Roylott, cause her mother died in a car accident. Helen says to Holmes that one night she found her sister julia death on the floor of her bedroom, adding that the woman's last words were about a slow whistle and a speckled band coming down the air intake. After further investigation conducted inside the family house, Holmes and watson discover that a venomous snake, sent by roylott himself, has killed Julia in her bedroom, while she was sleeping. Understaning that the next victim would have been