Jack the Ripper: Why he got away If you have ever watched any of the recent criminal justice shows on television you should know that it is a rarity for a criminal to get away nowadays. We have everything from fingerprinting, to DNA traces, and everything in between. So, how is it that one of the most famous and vicious criminals from the past has never been caught? Researchers have declared that there is little known about just how many women Jack the Ripper actually killed; numbers range from four to seven. You would think that with all those victims the police would have had some evidence for a suspect.
Picture a family of five. The first child is blind, the second is dead, the third is deaf, and the fourth has tuberculosis. The mother also has tuberculosis. Given the poor health of the family, and the chances this child will not live very long, would you call for an abortion? If yes, you just killed Beethoven.
These were all characteristics for the previous abductions and killings. From the coroner’s report they could tell, that she had been raped and she had multiple wounds indicating that she had been tortured as well. Not a death if any death worthy of this young innocent girl. The serial killer The police have a couple of leads, they can’t for safety reasons give any more details, but they are working their very hardest to find this heartless killer. The things the murderers have in common are the paintings of the garments and hair.
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
Narrates that she was raped when she was very young, what we see as an example of crime funnel with the level of reported crimes, and she never reported this. Also her brother died while in jail, and that her parents were separated. It is evident that all these factors that affected her life, leads to conclude that they determine the fact that she was involved in a murder. This murder took place on September 14, 1989 where the victim was Leonard Skwarok. Yvonne’s sentence was the longest and most severe of all involved in the murder, 25 years while the others received 10 years.
Each victim was strangled and then mutilated, usually dismembered sometimes missing organs when the police arrived. It was a string of crimes that was known to be London's first serial killings. Many experts credit the investigation of Jack the Ripper with the starting of criminal profiling and, provided police not only with physical details of the crime but also with psychological characteristics believed to be associated with the manner of the killings. The surgeon, Dr. Thomas Bond, believed the killer would be unassuming in appearance and manner, and daring and calm in the face of unimaginable violence; he thought he would be middle-aged, leading a solitary life and wearing a long coat to cover up any blood from his crimes, since he killed in public spaces. Jack the Ripper was never caught, and many have assumed this is because no one ever saw him except for his victims.
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.
Tate, who happened to be eight months pregnant at the time, was stabbed sixteen times in her chest and back. (Bugliosi 42). “For here was Sharon Tate, beautiful star of The Fearless Vampire Killers and pregnant wife of the director of Rosemary’s Baby, brutally slashed to death with her former lover, an internationally known hairstylist to the stars…and a coffee-fortune heiress who worked in the ghettos, and her lover, a Polish, drug using playboy.” (Chiasson 165). The following evening, in an apparently unrelated crime, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were discovered dead in their home at 3301 Waverly Drive. Rosemary was found face down in her bedroom, a lamp cord wrapped around her neck, in a pool of blood.
Should Police be armed? On Tuesday 18th September 2012, two female police constables, Fiona Bone aged thirty two, and Nicola Hughes, aged twenty three, were shot in cold blood, responding to a bogus burglary call. This murder of two unarmed police officers on duty has started a debate about whether all police officers should be armed in the line of duty. According to government figures, there were 6,868 officers authorised to carry firearms in England and Wales in 2009. This was out of 143,770 police officers in England and Wales, which means less than 5% of officers are allowed to carry a firearm.
Catherine (Kitty) Genovese was murdered on March 16, 1964 around 3:30 AM in Queens, New York. The stabbing of Kitty Genovese took place outside her apartment building in the course of a half hour. Winston Mosley stabbed her over 30 times, leaving her twice when “spooked” by neighbors, but coming back to “finish her off” when the lights in the apartment building went off. It was not a spectacular murder for Queens until the New York Times published the article, “37 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call.” That article shocked many and helped make the case important to social psychology. The Kitty Genovese case was made into a popular case simply because the murder was witnessed by over 30 people and no one called the police to report what was happening.