John Wright may have possibly had mania mental illness, a mood characterized by excessive elation, hyperactivity, agitation and accelerated thinking. This is well supported by the previous mental analysis done on Mr. Wright according to the Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology ‘’Most episodes of mania—elation without reasonable cause or justification—are followed in short order by depression; together they represent the opposites described as bipolar disorder… Expressions of hostility and irritability also are common during manic episodes’’. I propose that Mr. Wright killed the canary by breaking its neck therefore compelling evidence that he possessed mania. Therefore Mr. Wright thought that taking something dear to his wife was a way of controlling her; keeping her the way he wanted. Compelling evidence that it couldn’t have possibly been Mrs. Wright who mutilated the bird; ‘’the cage is severely damaged,’’ (Giaspell 749).
The media has played a prominent part in the portrayal of racism, especially in the Stephen Lawrence case. Racism has become a serious problem within crime in Britain and some cases are more significant than others however they all show that Britain is becoming more and more racially aware. On the evening of 22nd April 1993 at around 22:30 Stephen Lawrence and Duwayne Brooks were the victims of racist attack in south east London. Stephen Lawrence was stabbed and died shortly afterwards as a result. His killers were never convicted.
It was DNA evidence that led to a conviction in the 1998 murder case of 10-year-old Anna Palmer who was attacked and killed outside of her own front door in Salt Lake City. The crime was heinous, and included multiple stab wounds to her body, but following the crime, investigators had no witnesses, little evidence, and no apparent suspects, the news station reports. However, in 2009, forensic analysts were called in to assist in the case, and they decided to examine the girl’s fingernails for DNA samples. Using visible and alternative light sources to look for DNA not belonging to the girl, they made a hit, and matched it to a man named Matthew Brock, who had lived a block away at the time of the her murder and was age nineteen then. Brock was already in prison serving a ten year sentence for a sex related crime with a child, and he pled guilty in 2011 to an aggravated murder charge in the death of Anna Palmer and is now in prison for life.
Norman Chen Forensics Science P3 Edmund Kemper Case Study Edmund Emil Kemper was one of America’s most feared serial killers. The early 1970’s were known as the age of violence, and with good reason too. Not only was Kemper going around preying on and taking the lives of hitchhikers, but two other murderers, Fraizer and Muller, were claiming victims as well. Altogether, the three claimed a total of 28 victims. Initially in May 1972, female hitchhikers began to disappear.
On the 7th September 1998 the family of Kathleen Grundy went to Police and reported Dr Shipman of suspected foul play, after her death they found out just days before she died she had changed her will and left her entire estate to Shipman £386,000 he was arrested for murder. No one at that time imagined the enormity of the case as the Police started to investigate Dr Shipman and the extent of his involvement in the deaths of his patients would soon became apparent. During the investigation bodies were exhumed and many thousands of records were studied Dr. Harold Shipman was sentence to 27 years in prison for the murder of 15 patients at Preston County Court January 2000. In his first ten years of practice 31 patients died and in the next ten years another 168 patients, the eventual total was around 250 victims and Police were sure that many more that had gone under
On November 30, 2001, he was arrested for the murders of four women whose cases were linked to him through DNA evidence. In November of 2003 he pleaded guilty to 48 counts of aggravated murder, although he says he actually killed 90 women or more, almost all prostitutes. The murders occurred in the early 1980s. As part of a plea bargain, he was spared the death penalty and received a sentence of life imprisonment without
He was said to be too unfit to stand trial because of his mental state. He told police he dug up the women and killed the owner because he was in a haze. In 1968 Ed’s doctor determined he was insane enough to stand trial on November 14 1968 he went on trial for the murders. The trial lasted a week and he was found guilty of first degree murder by reason of insanity and spent the rest of his life in a mental hospital where he died of respiratory failure, cardiovascular disease. As awful as Ed Gein was, some look at him at as a hero.
Bryan Calvin Hartnell, 20 and Cecelia Ann Shepard, 22 were stabbed on September 27, 1969 at Lake Berryessa in Napa County. Hartnell survived eight stab wounds to the back but Shepard died as a result of her injuries on September 29, 1969. Paul Lee Stine 29 were shot and killed on October 11, 1969 in the Presidio Heights neighborhood in San Francisco. On August 1, 1969, three letters prepared by the killer were received at the Vallejo Times-Herald, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the San Francisco Examiner. Each letter also included one-third of a 408-symbol cryptogram which the killer claimed contained his identity.
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
Emily Phillips Ms. Finnigan English 112 November 22/12 Sickness Within Traumatic Events The role of sickness in Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" is a very evident theme throughout. Sickness is defined as "suffering from or affected with a physical illness, mentally ill or disturbed, deeply, distressed, upset, weary, tired, pining, longing."(dictionary). Each time there was traumatic events Victor Frankenstein fell ill, leaving him in bed for months. Is this his way of escaping reality? Or did he really become sick by coincidence?