Ellie’s decisive ability and her morals are thrown into chaos when she arrives at the family house and finds her dogs dead. She remains in a leadership position when she finds the eldest pet still alive and tells the others to help it while she runs inside to see what had happened to her parents. As Ellie wrote after the traumatic incident, “I knew that nothing sp awful could have happened to the dogs unless something more awful could have happened to my parents.” Although she says she had lost all rational thought. She still made good decision when the tragic events that had happened were unravelling before her. “They lay beside their little galvanized iron humpies, flies all over them, oblivious to the last warmth of the sun”.
John Ramsey carries JonBenet’s corpse upstairs and sets her in the living room. Patsy Ramsey thrusts herself onto her daughter and begins touching and rubbing her, destroying potential evidence. The Boulder Police Department obtains blood, hair, and handwriting samples from the family and some of their close friends. In domestic homicide cases suspicion falls on the family first. However, the Ramsey’s maintained their innocence from day one.
Upon a search of the car, Denise Fox’ severed head was found in his trunk. The police reported that the killing occurred in the Fox home between 8:30 AM and 4:30 PM, and the body was then dragged to the Marshall home. Marshall had also ran down a woman in the morning that Thursday who described the car he was driving. Marshall graduated from Arizona State University in Tempe in 1997 with a bachelor's degree in history, and most recently worked as a bedding salesman in Rockland County Marshall had a previous minor criminal record on charges of petty larceny and driving while intoxicated. Marshall plead guilty to the charge of murder in the first degree, three counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, burglary in the second degree and criminal mischief in the fourth degree, and charges of assault and leaving the scene of an incident involving physical injury without reporting, charges that stem
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.
The only reason that anyone had come to the scene was because someone heard a dog going crazy in the car and then the bodies were found and the cops were called. It is believed that the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre resulted from a plan devised by members of Capone gang to eliminate George “Bugs” Moran due to the rivalry between the two
Furthermore, for an act of murder to take place, there has to be a motive. When evaluating the evidence it is noticed that Lindy Chamberlain had no motive to kill Azaria and there was lack of evidence presented. Many of the statements and observing from witnesses contained contrast and contradiction within the information, rendering the evidence as useless. In addition, it is observed that a majority of the evidence that would’ve assisted the defence’s case was rejected and ignored, giving an unfair advantage to the prosecution. Engineer Harris, who had conducted dingo research, had cited an example of a captive female dingo removing a bundle of meat from its wrapping paper and leaving the paper intact.
On August 1994, a man entered Jane Marie Fray’s mobile home in South Michigan and stabbed her twenty-two times all over her body. Looking at the body, it had been killed in a very cruel and dreadful way. At the time of the murder, the killer also wrapped an electrical cord around her neck to suffocate her. When authorities found the body, they also noticed that the victim was bitten on her left ear at the time of the attack. Ricky Amolsch, the murder victim’s thirty-eight-year-old boyfriend, automatically became an immediate suspect of her murder.
His new neighbor, Sam Carr, had a black Labrador named Harvey, who Berkowitz believed was also possessed. He eventually shot the dog, but that did not offer him relief because he had come to believe that Sam Carr was possessed by the most powerful demon of them all, possibly Satan himself. Nightly the demons screamed at Berkowitz to go kill, their thirst for blood unquenchable. The Arrest of the Son of Sam : Berkowitz was eventually caught after receiving a parking ticket at the time and near the place of the Moskowitz murder. That evidence along with letters he wrote to Carr and the Cassaras, his military background, his appearance, and an arson incident, led police to his door.
Unlike most serial killers Bundy did have a normal childhood growing up. Although, he was raised thinking his grandparents were his parents, he later found out his sister was actually was mother. This might of fueled his hatred for women. Bundy kidnapped, raped and murdered 30 women. Bundy was a necrophiliac who admitted to beheading 12 of his victims.
Nala a 7 year old Shar-pei dog escaped from her home and during that event bit a woman who attempted to help the owner retrieve it. Later officers responded to the dog bite call and restrained the dog with a control pole. Officer Jeffrey Bolger decided to cut the dog’s throat with a knife killing it even while it was restrained. The action provided caused a public outcry and more negativity for the police profession with even fellow officers speaking out against the decision. For a little background on the Shar-pei, it was used for dog fighting and considered an aggressive dog breed.