[2][page needed] Mary herself says she was subjected to repeated sexual abuse, her mother forcing her from the age of four to engage in sexual acts with men. [2][page needed] The killings On 25 May 1968, the day before her 11th birthday, Mary Bell strangled four-year-old Martin Brown in a derelict house. [1] She was believed to have committed this crime alone. Between that time and a second killing, she and a friend, Norma Joyce Bell (no relation), aged 13, broke into and vandalised a nursery in Scotswood, leaving notes that claimed responsibility for the killing. The police dismissed this incident as a prank.
June 10, 2013 Reflection on “The Murder of Emmett Till” The 2003 documentary video “The Murder of Emmett Till,” depicts the story of the murder of a 14-year old African American boy in Mississippi in 1955. Emmett Till, from Chicago, was visiting his family in Money, Mississippi. Two white men, Roy Bryant, and J. W. Milam, kidnapped Emmett for whistling at Roy’s wife, Carolyn Bryant, a few days before at a grocery store. Emmett was then brutally beaten, shot and killed by Bryant and Milam. His body was later found in a river.
When Jeffrey Dahmer was 18, he made his first kill, hitchhiker Steve Hicks. He took him home to his parents' house, where they drank beer and had sex. When Hicks went to leave, Dahmer killed him with a blow to the head from a barbell. He dismembered the corpse of his first victim, packed the body parts in plastic bags, and buried them in the woods behind his parents' house. It would be another nine years before he encountered his second victim.
Acts of Vigilantism – violating the law to enforce the law a) Police: Vigilante justice led to unintended death - Two charged with murder after fire kills accused child pornographer’s wife b) Internet Vigilantism c) South Florida Store Clerks Go Vigilante IV. Acts of Civil Disobedience – violating the law to change the law a) The Boston Tea Party b) The Civil Rights Movement c) The Women's Suffrage Movement d) Abolition of slavery V. Three Criminal Acts Committed by Professionals – in the course of their employment other than criminal justice professionals in which the defendant was believed to have violated the ethical standards of his or her profession. a) Former Camden police officer admits planting evidence, preparing false reports. b) Court says prosecutor's evidence didn't exist. c) Judge Elizabeth Halverson permanently removed from bench.
Emmett never returned. August 28, 1955, Emmett Louis Till was found in the Tallahatchie River tied to a cotton gin fan with barbed wire. The state of Mississippi did not want the news of what happened to Emmett to spread, so there was a rushed funeral. Emmett’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley asked that the body of her son be sent to her in Chicago. Upon arrival of the body Ms. Till asked to see her son, the funeral director was prohibited to open the pine box containing the body.
The Crown reported that Pickton told the officer that he wanted to kill another woman to make it an even 50, and that he was caught because he was "sloppy". Background On February 6, 2002, police executed a search warrant for illegal firearms at the property owned by Pickton and his two siblings. He was taken into custody and police then obtained a second court order to search the farm as part of the BC Missing Women Investigation, when personal items (including a prescription asthma inhaler) belonging to one of the missing women were found. The farm was sealed off by members of the joint RCMP–Vancouver Police Department task force. The following day Pickton was charged with storing a firearm contrary to regulations, possession of a firearm while not being holder of a licence and possession of a loaded restricted firearm without a licence.
Scott Hain Case Study Scott Hain was a 17 years old at the time he and his friend carjacked, robbed, stuffed the victims in the trunk and set fire to the vehicle subsequently killing both Michael Houghton and Laura Sanders in what started out as a carjacking on October 6, 1987. The issues of the case were the death penalty and if it was just for a juvenile to receive that sentence. The case was contrary to the “normal” standards of justice because society tends to view minors as unable to commit such crimes that would end up in an execution. Hain had a history of theft, trespassing, theft, etc during his juvenile years. The case had brought much attention to the issue of executing juvenile offenders and caused the Supreme Court to address raising the age for such punishment to 18.
Trayvon Martin, a seventeen year-old Miami resident, was murdered and the reasoning for his death by the shooter is unreliable and evident that the shooter is not only racist but guilty of stereotyping and committing a hate crime against Martin. On February 26, 2012, Martin was visiting his father in Sanford, Florida, a small town North of Orlando, when Trayvon Martin was shot by twenty-eight year old, George Zimmerman. Zimmerman was a volunteer neighborhood watchman of the gated community, where the shooting took place. Martin was walking back from 7-Eleven during the NBA All Star game halftime to get Skittles and an iced tea, when Zimmerman had confronted him. According to various news reports Martin was dressed in a baggy grey sweatshirt, and had a bulge in the front pocket.
The parents of the runaway hunted Mr. Sneed down and shot him to his death. The parents had gone to the local police station and also tried to get help from local newspapers but no one would help. The parents would not wait on a trail but took the situation in their own hands. The parents had hired local gang members to kill Mr. Sneed but the gang members were unsuccessful. Prosecutors say Gilton shot Sneed with a .40-caliber handgun on Meade and LeConte avenues, causing the gang member to crash his car
A 20-year-old college student had killed a woman at his Ladera Ranch home and had set out on a killing spree that stretched through the heart of Orange County. He had killed a businessman and stole his BMW. A few minutes later, he killed a plumber and took a work truck. He shot randomly at the morning commuters on the 55 Freeway, which had hit at least three cars. The authorities were surprised at the "senseless violence," which had spanned about 25 miles.