He would drill holes in the victim’s skulls and would put caustic solutions in the holes to make them unconscious. In the summer of 1991, Dahmer murdered approximately one person a week. Edwards (would be victim) escaped from Dahmer and signaled down a police car. When the police searched the house they found photographs of murdered victims and human remains, Including three severed penis’s and heads. The police found a total of eleven people with the parts divided between the refrigerator and acid containers.
Matthew Shepard died October 12, 1998 at 12:53 a.m. after spending five days in a comma due to massive injuries and head trauma. The evidences Chasity Vera Pasley (20) and Krista Lean Price (18), the suspect’s girlfriends, hid the bloody shoes of Henderson and provided the suspects with alibis. Shepard’s shoes, coat and credit card were found in McKinney’s pick-up truck; his wallet was found in McKinney’s home. A .357 Magnum was also found in McKinney’s home. The trial of the case : “Gay panic” defence Aaron McKinney alleged that Shepard had made a pass at him was sufficient grounds to justify joining with friend Russell Henderson in savagely beating Shepard, clubbing him with a handgun, lashing him to a wooden fence and leaving him to die.
When Jeffrey Dahmer was 18, he made his first kill, hitchhiker Steve Hicks. He took him home to his parents' house, where they drank beer and had sex. When Hicks went to leave, Dahmer killed him with a blow to the head from a barbell. He dismembered the corpse of his first victim, packed the body parts in plastic bags, and buried them in the woods behind his parents' house. It would be another nine years before he encountered his second victim.
June 10, 2013 Reflection on “The Murder of Emmett Till” The 2003 documentary video “The Murder of Emmett Till,” depicts the story of the murder of a 14-year old African American boy in Mississippi in 1955. Emmett Till, from Chicago, was visiting his family in Money, Mississippi. Two white men, Roy Bryant, and J. W. Milam, kidnapped Emmett for whistling at Roy’s wife, Carolyn Bryant, a few days before at a grocery store. Emmett was then brutally beaten, shot and killed by Bryant and Milam. His body was later found in a river.
The Starkweather Homicide Charles Starkweather was a spree killer who murdered eleven victims in Nebraska and Wyoming during a road trip with his underage girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate. His actions inspired several movies, including Natural Born Killer, Badlands, and Wild at Heart. Starkweather appears to have enjoyed a stable and comfortable home life. He was the third of seven children, and despite being born into a poor family during the Great Depression he claimed that he never went hungry. His school life was very different: he was bullied because of a mild speech impediment, bowed legs, and severe nearsightedness.
John Mariotti 12/13/12 Extra Credit Assignment: Zodiac Killer The Zodiac Killer was a serial killer who stalked parts of Northern California from December 1968 through October 1969. Through a series of cryptic letters he sent to the press and others he offered clues, future murder plots and adopted the name Zodiac. He took responsibility for murdering as many as 37 people, but police investigators confirmed that seven people were attacked by the Zodiac of which five died. He was never caught. Like every serial killer he had a pattern to his killings.
The murder of Emmett Louis Till For many, the murder of Emmett Louis Till does not sound familiar but what happened to him in 1955 astonished the nation, and caused shockwaves, tremor, and that still echo today. Emmett Louis Till was only 14 when he got kidnapped, torture, then shot in the head. He was murdered in Mississippi for whistling at a young white woman in a shop. The two white men, Roy Bryant, and his half-brother, J.W Milam were put on trial for the killing and kidnapping of Emmett but despite the strong evidence against them an all-white jury acquitted them after one hour. "He was the center of attraction.
This exoneration was after he had been locked behind bars for several years. In this case, we can identify how these law practitioners worked on information that was inconclusive. The fact that the little Tim Masters had failed to report that he had found a body as he was heading to school made him to be a key suspect in the murder case. In addition, the fact that many pages of artwork characterized with violence and a collection of knives found in his room also made him a key suspect. The defense counsel failed in its duty of protecting the rights of the innocent.
Scott Hain Case Study Scott Hain was a 17 years old at the time he and his friend carjacked, robbed, stuffed the victims in the trunk and set fire to the vehicle subsequently killing both Michael Houghton and Laura Sanders in what started out as a carjacking on October 6, 1987. The issues of the case were the death penalty and if it was just for a juvenile to receive that sentence. The case was contrary to the “normal” standards of justice because society tends to view minors as unable to commit such crimes that would end up in an execution. Hain had a history of theft, trespassing, theft, etc during his juvenile years. The case had brought much attention to the issue of executing juvenile offenders and caused the Supreme Court to address raising the age for such punishment to 18.
The Psychology Serial Killers He is a 32 year old white male. He lived an unstable childhood filled with child abuse and an alcoholic mother. His childhood hobbies included the torture of animals, which he later dismissed as “nothing major”. Growing up, he abused drugs and alcohol and also accepted homosexual tendencies. He currently has a long criminal history that includes serial murder… Nowadays, the media has sensationalized the idea of a human being capable of serial murder and academia has scrutinized the phenomenon of serial murder.