They were playing at the 9-year-old’s home in Brooklyn during a Memorial Day barbeque, and when her mother stepped out of the house, the fight ensued. When the mother returned, the 9-year-old had stabbed Washington in the chest with a steak knife. She collapsed in the hallway and was pronounced dead at the hospital. The killer is likely the youngest person in New York City to commit a murder. The girl was charged with manslaughter and the case will go to family court because she is younger than
Felisha Khooblall Criminology – Reaction Paper “Tracy Thurman Case” The Tracy Thurman Case was in the 1980s. Between November of 1982 and June 1983, Tracy Thurman was stalked and attacked by her estranged husband Charles Thurman. She was brutally attacked by Charles, stabbing her multiple times, kicking her and stomping on her skull. Due to the amount of damage done to her, she was turned into a quadriplegic. During the attack, the police allowed her husband to wander around for 25 minutes and watched as he continued to attack her.
Williams v. State , 110 So. 2d 654 (1959). Facts Williams was convicted and sentenced to death for the rape of a seventeen year old young woman. The victim testified that while driving a few minutes after leaving a store, Webb City, parking lot on the night of December 18, 1957 Williams stabbed her with an ice pick from the back seat of her car. He then drove her around town, sexually assaulted her twice, stopped the car and left.
Week 2 Discussion 1 Correlates of Criminal Behavior Pastella B. Williams Aileen Carol Wuornos was born February 29, 1956 in Rochester, Mi. Her mother was 15 years old when she married her father, Leo Pittman. Her parents divorced two months before she was born. Aileen never met her father, who was in prison for the rape and attempted murder of a seven year-old child. Her father was considered to be a schizophrenic.
Kimberly Prine 4/21/15 CJ 112 Assignment #4 Psychological Theories Aileen Carol Wuornos was a serial killer who had killed seven men, widely believed to be the United States’ first female serial killer. She was convicted for six of the murders and sentenced to death, ultimately meeting her end through execution by lethal injection. The product of a highly dysfunctional marriage, Aileen had been subjected to horrific tortures as a young girl. Her father was a psychopathic pedophile who was in jail at the time of her birth while her mother was an immature teenager who abandoned Aileen and her brother. Brought up by her grandparents, she found herself the victim of rampant childhood sexual abuse at the hands of her grandfather.
The story of Ronald Gene Simmons. On the 22nd of December, 1987 the worst mass murder in Arkansas history took place. A man by the name of Ronald Gene Simmons went on a killing spree. He started off by killing his wife, kids, and his three year old granddaughter, but it didn’t stop there. He killed his family and quite a few harmless townspeople because he went insane, because why else would you kill harmless people?
Alias Grace Based on a notorious double murder in Canada in the1840's, the novel Alias Grace tells the story of a pretty 16 year-old servant girl who conspired with a ranch hand to kill their employer and his mistress and escape with their belongings. They were captured in several days, and later, in a much-publicized trial, found guilty of premeditated murder. The young man, James McDermott, was sentenced to death, and the girl, Grace Marks, narrowly escaped it. Alias Grace begins after the murderess has served 8 years in prison. The death of Nancy Montgomery, Kinnear's housekeeper and mistress, has been disregarded as both villains had already been sentenced to death.
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.
He started killing more frequently, 4 in just that year. The next of his victims was 33 year old Raymond Smith in May of 1990. His crime was the same, drugged and strangled him and then engaged in oral sex with the cadaver. He cut off his head and painted it and put it in his fridge and placed his bones around his apartment as decorations. A week later he did the same thing when he met 27 year old Eddie Smith.
She was a New York resident who was raped outside her building and over 40 people watched it happen. In the Watchman there is a newspaper that reads “Woman Killed while neighbors look on” (Moore 6.11) Rorschach is talking about her to Dr. Malcolm Long. He said that she was tortured and people watched and no one called the police. This is not true because the night she was attacked, one man named Karl Ross did call the police and Kitty died on the way to the hospital from multiple stab wounds