Murder on a Sunday Morning is a documentary that shows the problem in our judicial system concerning the juvenile being accused of a crime. This documentary follows the trial of 15-year-old Brendon Butler from Defense attorney Patrick McGuinness’s and Ann Finnell point of view as he works to prove Butler innocence. This case became America most misleading Cassie's because of its lack of evidence on Mr Butler Butler. This accident took place on May 17, 2000, out of Jacksonville Florida many people say that this case was not handled properly by detective and officers could also represent that the young black teen time to be a stereotype base under skin colour.…
William and Mary Jane Flint in Farmington Early in their marriage, William and Mary Jane Flint made their home in Farmington, Utah. They lived in a dugout until he could get logs to build a house. To say there were a lot of snakes in the area would be an understatement. One evening, the snakes joined them for dinner. They were seated at the table when a large snake dropped from the roof by the tail and hung over a pan of milk which was on the table.…
Janie a young African American lady was faced with a choice between, love, romance, happiness and stability, sensibility and family approval. One man an old farmer asked for her hand in marriage. Janie knew if she said yes she would be taken care of but not always happy. A young man with lots of money how ever, stole Janie 's heart and gave her the choice to risk her future and run away with him. This risk would allow janie 's romantic desires to run wild and let her child like freedom sing.…
Despite the title and delicious background we will not be talking about breakfast foods or what kind of cereal I digested this morning. Instead our topic of conversation will be murder. One murder in particular; the murder of Hae Min Lee, a popular high school senior at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore Maryland. Hae mysteriously disappeared after school one day in January 1999. She was supposed to pick up her younger cousin but never made it to her school.…
Jeffrey Dahmer is a modern cannibal who lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and was convicted of the murder, dismemberment, rape and cannibalism of 17 men and boys, taking place between 1978 and 1991. While being tried for his crimes, Dahmer’s attorney explains that ‘[Dahmer] ate body parts so that these poor people he killed would become alive in him again” (Tithecott, 67). Dahmer’s murderous trail began when he was a high school student in Ohio. His murders include five states and Germany. Dahmer is the most notorious serial cannibal to date and was the most broadcasted case of cannibalism in modern times.…
Old Yeller There is a yellow dog named Old Yeller. The character known as Papa, farms, and his family only makes a little bit of money. They need some more money so Papa left for Kanas and left this his son, Travis, in charge. Travis is 14 years old and has to take care of the house until Papa comes back in the fall. Before Papa left Travis talked to him about getting a horse but Papa suggested a dog, but Travis wanted a horse.…
The Holloway’s wanted their daughter back safe, the reward for her safe return had increased from $200,000 to $1,000,000. If any information given helped in the findings of Natalee they would reward with $100,000. Another suspect came about on August 26, Freddy Arambatzis, 21- year- old Arambatzis was suspected of capturing photographs of underage girls. This ended up having nothing to do with Holloway’s disappearance but it showed the involvement that he had with other girls. It also showed that Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers had involvement in previous encounters.…
Kathryn Allamong Jacob’s article “She Couldn’t Have Done It, Even If She Did” revolves around the murder mystery of Lizzie Borden. Lizzie Borden was an Upper-class woman who lived in the Industrial Era of the late 1800’s. Lizzie Borden was accused of Brutally murdering her father and stepmother, but was later deemed innocent on account of the jury. From the start, Jacob’s made her stance of Borden’s evident guilt very clear. The murder is centered in an era that dealt with gender discrimination.…
The film Murder on a Sunday Morning was a murder case in Jacksonville involving a 15 year old teenager being accused of 1st Degree murder and theft. In the video, it showed the process of the trial and both sides of the case. The lawyer in the video was defending Brenton Butler, the person accused of the incident and the lawyer truly believed that Brenton was not the person that committed the crime. Patrick McGuiness, the lawyer, went out of his way to not only prevent Brenton from serving life in jail, but to also get the real criminal that committed murder. In the end, McGuiness was able to prove to the jury that Brenton was not guilty and that the real murderer was still on the loose.…
The Secrets of a Massachusetts Woman In 2015 the state of Massachusetts recorded an annual average of 100,900 murders. Out of all the murders that have happened in the state, the most infamous crime are the Borden murders. It is obvious that the vile murders were committed by Lizzie Borden yet, a weak prosecution, a lack of evidence, and the sexism of the 1800’s she got away with murder. To comprehend the reason why Lizzie killed her parents we need to study her family history.…
A black sharecropper's family is poor and hungry. The father and his dog, Sounder, go hunting each night, but the hunting is poor. The family subsists on biscuits and gravy until one morning they wake up to the smell of boiling ham. They eat it, but a while later a sheriff and two of his deputies burst into the cabin and arrest the father, saying that they have proof he stole the ham. Sounder runs after them, and one of the deputies shoots…
The years 1928-1930 presented some troubling times for the citizens of California, particularly those in the Los Angeles area and Wineville (now Mira Loma) community. During those past years, a series of horrendous abductions and murders took place by a man known as Gordon Stewart Northcott. These murders came to be known as the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders and persisted to grow into a broader dilemma as a significant mother, Christine Collins, raised concern over her missing son, Walter Collins. To further emphasize the horrors that were unknowingly taking place at the time, the corruption of the late 1920s LAPD put this authority in an even worse state by failing to acknowledge some significant problems in the justice system. The film,…
The question of what might trigger a person to commit a murder has been an ongoing investigation for centuries. The idea of killing another person, let alone one’s own parents is, to most people, baffling and horrifying. Lizzie, in Sharon Pollock’s play, Blood Relations, is a curious character that murders both her parents using a hatchet. Based on the 1982 event in Massachusetts, Pollock creates her own account of the Lizzie Borden murder, but still remains true to historical details. A number of events lead up the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Borden.…
In the story American Horror Story: Murder House it surrounds a boy named Tate Langdon and his misadventure with his friends and family Vivian Harmon, Dr. Ben Harmon, and Constant Langdon. Tate was born in 1977 to Constance and Hugo Langdon. Tate was the brother of Adelaide, Beauregard, and possibly one other unidentified albino sibling. Though he alone of the Langdon children has escaped visible physical defect, he is very mentally disturbed, perhaps owing in some part to his absentee father and neglectful mother. Constance killed his father, Hugo, for his infidelities.…
Elizabeth Short also know a "The Black Dahlia" was brutally murdered in Los Angeles in 1947. She was severely mutilated. Her killer has never been found ,which makes her case the oldest unsolved cases in L.A and one of the most famous. Many homicide investigators would say that this was one of the most brutal murders. Shorts body was found cut in two by a local female resident on January 15, 1947, in a vacant lot near Leimert Park, on the 3800 block of L.A.'s South Norton Avenue ,…