He also said in his statement that he had beaten the victim with a shoe, and the autopsy shows nothing of the sort. He could not describe the knife that was used to stab the victim in fact he had no idea she was even stabbed. Four months later Daniel Williams receives his results for the DNA testing and they are negative. Since Daniel confessed to something, he was still held responsible and the police closed the investigation. Months later, Unexpectedly Joe Dick, Daniel William’s roommate is now suspect number two.
They were both taken by surprise when a man came out of the room with a gun.” It was a little bit of a struggle for Dennis Rader, but he eventually killed Kathryn Bright, and he left Kevin Bright with permanent damage. In October of the same year, the Wichita Eagle newspaper got a phone call. The man who took the phone call said he found a letter hidden in an engineering book at the Wichita Public Library. “There police found a detailed description of the unsolved Otero murders. It was noted that the writer of the note used very poor grammar and spelling, but had obvious knowledge of the crime.
He was found guilty of the murder and was convicted of killing Peggy. However on January 22, 2008 Timothy Masters was exonerated of the charges which were filed against him. The dismissal of the charges against him was after he had served several years behind bars. In this case, it is clear that these law professionals relied on inconclusive information. Timothy Masters’ arrest was only because he had failed to report that he had found a dead body while he was heading to school.
Davis the name of number 8 juror tried to convince the members of the jury and he succeed to change their minds. Davis was smart and logically man, he started doubt the evidence by the switch knife. The jurors believed the knife belongs to the eighteen years old guy and he stabbed it in his father chest, Davis made his argument by said might the murder used another knife looked like the guy’s knife and he showed the jurors a knife looked like the knife was used to kill the man. After this argument the one of jurors #9 changed his vote to not guilty. After that #5 juror who had a problem to express his opinion, he changed his mind and vote for not guilty.
The Shawshank Redemption opens with Andy Dufresne being interrogated and sentenced for the murder of his wife and her lover. During the interrogation Mr. Dufresne flashes back to the night of the alleged murders. The flashbacks show Mr. Dufresne reaching into his glove compartment and pulling out a gun and bullets while sitting outside of his wife’s lover’s home. The interrogating attorney accuses Mr. Dufresne of shooting his wife and her lover, but the flash backs do not show him using his gun. During the interrogation Mr. Dufresne states that on his way home to ‘sleep it off’, he threw his gun into the Royal River; the attorney states that after searching the river for three days the gun was never recovered.
The first proof they used was Simpson’s motive Simpson was mad because his ex-wife broke up with Simpson a second time; Simpson was also an emotional mess with also losing his current girlfriend. Also Simpson had a cut on his index finger of his left hand and no one could remember seeing the cut before the murders. The second proof that they used was the physical evidence. While searching the crime they came across a left handed glove that had blood on it and a ski cap. The matching glove to the left hand glove was found behind the home.
They had from someone who had survived one of the attacks, a police sketch, and details on his size and weight but nothing conclusive. The first suspected kill of the Zodiac was that On October 30, 1966, 18-year-old Cheri Jo Bates spent the evening at the campus library annex until it closed at 9:00 p.m. Neighbors reported hearing a scream around 10:30 p.m. Bates was found dead the next morning, a short distance from the library. The most interesting thing about Cheri’s death is that a month later a letter was received to the Riverside police and the Riverside Press-Enterprise, titled "The Confession". This letter gave details of the murder and at least one detail was not released publicly.
The encounter ends with Brown on the ground with 8 shots in him. What happened that made the officer shoot the teen though? St. Louis County Police Chief Joe Belmar claims “Brown physically assaulted the officer, and during a struggle between the two, Brown reached for the officer's gun. One shot was fired within the car followed by other gunshots outside of the car (Gannett).” How could we possibly know if this was what actually happened though? For all we know the officer is making this story up to protect his career from a possible mistake that he made.
On August 9th, 2014, an eighteen year old boy named Michael Brown was shot dead by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. The cause of this shooting has been hotly debated, and the subject of many recent protests around the country. This essay will attempt to list and analyze potential causes of the shooting, including the fact that he didn’t listen to the cops and that Brown was the aggressor in the attack. When Darren Wilson first saw Michael Brown, it had nothing to do with the fact that he had just stolen cigars from a convenience store, but rather the fact that he was walking down the middle of the street, or jaywalking. Wilson pulled his car up and told Brown and his friend to get out of the street.
The facts tell us that Deft searched for several months but was unable to find the killer, Deft went to the 38th street pier in search of the killer, and that Deft pulled out a handgun and shot Kyle in the chest. He intended to kill because he took the gun; the search for several months and the act of going to the pier to find the killer were deliberate and planned acts. Deft’s actions are the actual and proximate cause of Kyle’s death. Deft’s act of shooting Kyle in the chest is the actual cause. Furthermore, Deft’s acts meet the “but for” rule: but for Deft’s actions, Kyle would still be alive.