In Goldsboro, North Carolina in 1990, there were three different crimes committed by an unknown attacker that was named the “Night Stalker”. In March an elderly woman was brutally raped and almost murdered, but her daughter came home early and the attacker fled the scene and left materials behind that would have been used to burn the house down in order to cover up the crime. In July, a second elderly woman was raped and murdered, and in October, a third woman was raped and stabbed to death and her husband was also murdered. The house was set on fire, but fire and rescue were able to get the bodies out before the house was totally destroyed. DNA analysis of the vaginal swabs from the three women who had been raped enabled the authorities
October 2, 2012 Case Brief Cupp v Murphy 412 U.S. 291 (1973) Facts: Daniel Murphy was convicted of murdering his wife in the second degree. After he found out of the murder he called the police and voluntarily submitted himself to questioning. In the middle of his questioning the police noticed a dark spot on his finger and they asked if they could get a sample and he refused. The police did not respect his wishes and they took the sample anyways of what was under his fingernail. They processed it and later found out there was traces of his wife’s nightgown, skin, and blood all from the deceased victim.
Evan Marshall was 31-years-old when he committed the murder. He lived in his parents’ in a gated community. He murdered and dismembered the body of retired teacher who lived across the street. He did not know the victim. The disappearance of Denise Fox, age 57, was first noticed by her daughter who found the back sliding door broken and blood on the floor when she returned home.
This case proceeded in London and was said to be a strong influence in the abolishment of capital punishment in the United Kingdom. Evans was executed in 1950 for the murder of his wife and 13-month-old daughter. Evans maintained his innocence through the whole trial and told investigators that his neighbor, John Christie murdered his family. There was not much evidence against Evans and the case was said to be really weak but he was still executed on March 9, 1950. The police coerced Timothy Evans into a false confession by threatening him.
Danielle Nicole Ford Forensic Science January 27, 2011 THOMAS CAPANO ACCIDENT OR MURDER Thomas J. Capano (born October 11, 1949) is a disbarred American lawyer from Wilmington, Delaware, who was convicted of the 1996 murder of his lover Anne Marie Fahey. The case made headlines because Capano is from a wealthy family and was a former deputy attorney general of Delaware. In 1994 Capano was a partner at the Wilmington office of the law firm Saul Ewing LLP when he became involved with Anne Marie Fahey, the 28-year-old appointments secretary to then-Governor Thomas R. Carper. Fahey did not want to continue her affair with Capano. Fahey had been attempting to end her relationship with the married Capano and had begun seeing another man.
He was accused of 2nd degree assault against his girl friend. Mr. David pled not guilty arguing it was a self-defense case. On November 3rd, 2010, Mr. Batty girlfriend went to the Emergency Room with a broken nose and blood all over her clothes. She then told the Nurse in charge of her that her boyfriend attacked her while she was driving him around. In fact, they were having an
As far as errors in the evidence go, well ten months later, authorities dropped all charges of Amolsch’s, when the man who said he had spotted Amolsch’s van outside the mobile home was arrested for raping another woman in the same trailer park. So disagreement did spread, but Warnick never did rule Amolsch out as the maker of the mobile home bite mark. Yes, in the Amolsch case, one death did occur, and that was the death of Jane Marie Fray at her mobile home in South Michigan. The manner of death was a clear Homicide because the victim was murdered. The means of death was a knife because she was stabbed twenty-two times all over her body, and it was also an electrical cord, which the killer wrapped around her neck.
Kemper’s mother had sent him to live with his grandparents because she was tired of his eccentric behavior. Edmund Kemper, seventeen at the time, decided to shoot his grand mother “just to see how it felt” and eventually shot his grandfather when he returned home. He was sent to a mental asylum later for his actions but proved to his psychologist, through assistant work and studies, that he was deemed normal enough for release including expunging his juvenile records. However, he was still fascinated with killer which began his murder campaign around the age of 24. Edmund worked for the department of transportation in Santa Cruz and began to pick up hitchhikers, bring them to deserted areas, and brutally rape and kill them.
In Time magazine’s article entitled “Not Guilty Plea in Web Suicide Case”, author, Linda Deutsch, addresses the federal court case involving 49-year-old, Lori Drew, and the internet hoax that supposedly was the cause of 13-year-old, Megan Meier’s suicide in 2006. Lori Drew, of St. Louis, M.O., has been accused of creating a fake MySpace account belonging to a 16-year-old boy, and sending cruel messages to Megan Meier, who hanged herself in 2006. Drew is denying responsibility for creating the account and sending messages such as “the world would be better off without [Megan],” (Deutsch). Drew has pled Not Guilty. This case opens up many new aspects of Internet Law.
James Minor Mr. Jones English 1420 22, June, 2014 Making the decision to put a person to death for a murder he/she committed can be very serious. That is why when I read the article about a 16 year old boy who had killed his mother, had a party and sold items from the house, I was in total disbelief. This behavior is totally unacceptable. The boy, whose name is Kitt, and his 3 year old brother were both in the home when the murder had taken place. According to relatives who lived nearby, Kitt had been upset because his mother had sent him off to boot camp weeks prior.