Martha Investigator Murder Case Study

In the murder case of an African- American lady named Martha investigators have narrowed their search do to three possible suspects. The three suspects are Royce Triplett, Kenneth Hubbard and Marcus Maher. Now none of the possible suspect is family members of Martha but has had some form of interaction with her in the past whether it is church related or neighborhood related she knew all three of them. Therefore, we will have to look at the evidence and determine which one of these three men could be the person who in fact killed and raped Martha.
Now the first suspect Royce Triplett is an African-American male who is 44 years old and stands 5’11” with a weight of 167 lbs. Mr. Triplett is a member of Martha’s church and they sing in the choir together and he has been divorced twice. Unfortunately, Martha and Mr. Triplett have been out for coffee a couple of times in the past and he has stressed his interest in taking her out on a date but she declines his offer because he is too young for her. Although, he has asked her for a date and been turned down he is not content with just being her friend. Therefore, on a few occasions …show more content…
It seems that he has some mental issues and he deals with depression and alcohol dependence. There is also the fact that he is described as being a local eccentric, which means a person who has an unusual, peculiar, or odd personality, set of beliefs, or behavior pattern (dictionary.reference.com, n.d.). It is also known that a serial killer commits murder for some sort of psychological benefit (psychologytoday.com, n.d.). Furthermore, as we can see he does have mental issues and from the way he raped her shows that he was an anger-retaliatory rapist which rapes someone because of a real or imagined wrong which brings gratification to them as it does when a serial killer kills