She had been shot in the back four times, the pools of her blood on the rocks covered with sand. Only a bit of her clothing remained uncovered to show where she had been buried. The police soon turned to a local boy named Alvin Heaton junior under suspicion of the crime. He was detained, questioned and eventually charged with the murder of Mary Stevens. He went to trial and was found guilty of her murder, sentenced to life in prison at hard labor.
The case of Ted Bundy Theodore Robert "Ted" Bundy, born Theodore Robert Cowell (November 24, 1946 – January 24, 1989), was an American serial killer active between 1973 and 1978. After more than a decade of vigorous denials, he eventually confessed to over 30 murders, although the actual total of victims remains unknown. Estimates range from 26 to over 100, the general estimate being 35. Ted Bundy murders were confirmed in multiple states including Washington, Oregon, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, and Florida. Ted Bundy would rape strangle and beat young women and girls.
Maria Everson Zaborsky Infamous Crime Cases An infamous case that was solved by forensic evidence was the Theodore Robert "Ted" Bundy case. He was an American serial killer, rapist, kidnapper, and necrophile. He assaulted many women and girls killing between 30-40 people throughout seven different states, which Ted Bundy confessed to. He also cut the head of 12 victims off and kept the head in his house as a memory to always have, he would also kill women and later return to the crime scene to have intercourse with the body until it began to rot or was destructed by wild animals. In 1975 Ted was arrested in Utah but was released due to the little evidence, Two years later was convicted of kidnapping and escaped.
The story of Ronald Gene Simmons. On the 22nd of December, 1987 the worst mass murder in Arkansas history took place. A man by the name of Ronald Gene Simmons went on a killing spree. He started off by killing his wife, kids, and his three year old granddaughter, but it didn’t stop there. He killed his family and quite a few harmless townspeople because he went insane, because why else would you kill harmless people?
Rosemary was found face down in her bedroom, a lamp cord wrapped around her neck, in a pool of blood. She was found with forty-one stab wounds. Her husband, Leno, had a pillow case over his head, a lamp cord tied around his neck, his hands tied behind his back with a leather thong, and an ivory-handled, bi-tined carving fork in his stomach; he had been stabbed multiple times and had the word “WAR” carved into his flesh (Bugliosi 55-56). The murderers were members of a group led by Charles Manson called the “Family”. These people were completely controlled by Manson.
Mary Ann Nichols was murdered on Aug. 31, 1888. An autopsy was performed by Dr. Llewellyn. He concluded that five of her teeth we missing, there were multiple bruises on your jaw line and check bone area, an eight inch incision severed the large vessels in her neck, and deep incisions running
The death was ruled a homicide, by medical examiner Dr. Jan Garavaglia and that she had likely been killed by undetermined means. The Body Farm is a key battle in the Caylee Anthony case. Investigators of the case sent carpet and odor samples from the trunk of Casey Anthony’s car to four scientist at the Body Farm in Knoxville. The four scientists claimed that there could have been a decomposed body in Casey’s car shortly after Caylee went missing. There were DNA test from Oakridge National Laboratory in Tennessee showing evidence consistent with decomposition.
He emigrated to London and resided in Whitechapel, where many of the murders took place. Possibly due to the anti-Semitism of this time, Kosminski is considered to be a strong suspect by the two highest ranking officers involved in the investigation, Anderson and Swanson. Kosminski was immediately identified as the murderer by a witness who later refused to testify against a ‘fellow Jew’. For this reason, Kosminski was not charged. Aaron Kosminski displayed some signs of insanity in the late 1880’s and was admitted to Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum in February 1891.
(Hagan.1987.P17) During one post mortem on the criminal Vilella, Lombroso discovered a depression in the back part of his skull. Lombroso named this the “median occipital fossa.” (Lombroso. ibid., p.184). This Lombroso described as a “revelation”. The results of Lombroso’s studies on criminals and the results of his post mortems led him to believe “that the criminal was, in effect, a human subspecies.” (Hagan.
James Warren "Jim" Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was the founder and leader of the Peoples Temple, best known for the cult murder/suicide in 1978, 909 of its members in Jonestown, Guyana, and the murder of five individuals at a nearby airstrip. Over 200 children were murdered at Jonestown, almost all of them by cyanide poisoning. Jones died from a gunshot wound to the head. Jones was born in Indiana and started the Temple there in the 1950s. He later moved the Temple to California in the mid-1960s, and gained notoriety with the move of the Temple's headquarters to San Francisco in the early 1970s.