He examines famous serials killers and professional theories, as well as studies concerning them and the general characteristic traits they possess. He states that serial killers are “frequently the products of broken or severely brutal homes, where they have themselves been subjected to gross cruelty, sexual abuse, and in some cases prolonged and systematic torture, in deprived childhood: negative parenting as the jargon has it. Vulgatim: the brutal father is the father to the brutal father.” (Egan 327). Serial killers bare painful memories from their childhood, of abuse, humiliation, frustration, or being bullied, they use fantasies to escape, comfort themselves, and even develop an alternate identity that feels more powerful or provides greater ego status.…
The novel, I Hunt Killers, written by Barry Lyga is an interesting mystery. The book tells the story from the point of view of Jazz Dent, son of infamous serial killer Billy Dent. Jazz see’s every crime scene from a killer’s point of view, since Billy showed him everything he knew. Now, bodies are piling up and Jazz has to show everybody that the horrible gene doesn’t run in the family. The setting takes place in the quiet town…
Monday, August 21st, 2017 at approximately 1:00 p.m., I Detective L. Donegain collected the in-car camera footage from the Southwood Homicide. A review of the camera footage was conducted. On Sergeant D. Hudson’s in-car camera footage captured Derrick Robinson in the roadway. The in-car camera footage was placed into the Evidence Control System and additional copies were forwarded to the District Attorney’s Office.…
Rose Atkinson Mouser B5 US Government 4/21/16 Proposal On October 31, 1963, Cleveland Police Department Detective Martin Mcfadden was patrolling downtown when he saw two men, John W. Terry and Richard Chilton, suspiciously acting around the street corner. They had been pacing back and forth along their route, pausing to stare in the same store window. McFadden had observed them do this routine several times.…
It’s not unusual for an investigator to be up late working, but tonight was different. Detective Gordon Lane looked at the calendar on his wall: June 15, 1937. It has been four months since the death of his wife, Rose Lane, and that was unacceptable. It wasn’t unacceptable that was wife was dead, that was unavoidable. What was unacceptable was the fact that the person who killed her was still out there.…
There was a scent in the air tonight that entailed Detective Folly that something, unlike any other normal night in 1927 New York, was about to happen. However, the seasoned detective had bigger fish to fry from just a smell. There had been, many years ago, a murder that took place on Folly’s first day on the job. The once bright and lively detective had been haunted by this murder ever since, for it had been his mother who was taken from this Earth on that cold, fateful night. Folly had finally, after many years of rigorous effort, tracked down the culprit to the murder being longtime mob boss, Smith Johnson.…
McFadden was therefore, considered not only an expert in strategies, but also, on criminal tricks and pickpocketing in other words steeling things from a person’s pocket without them noticing. Working in law enforcement as a police officer for 39 years, and as a detective for 35 years McFadden developed an observational habit and therefore a daily routine over the years. In the oral testimony he explained how while patrolling in Cleveland, Ohio in 1963 McFadden spotted two individuals being John W. Terry, and Richard Chilton standing on Huron Road and 1276 Euclid Avenue, which was near East of 14th Street testifying they didn’t look right to him. After both men happened to be observed by McFadden without them knowing, they proceed by walking…
The Case of Zack and Amber The case of Zack and Amber is a prime example of how the decisions of others can have far reaching effects. This case has several individuals involved. Zack is a police officer who fatally wounded his wife Amber after he discovered what appeared to be an act of adultery with Dallas.…
Willits & Nowacki (2003) conducted regression models and utilize data from the Supplementary Homicide Reports from 1999 to 2001, the 2000 American Census and the 2000 Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics Survey (LEMAS). The research also included all police departments in the United States with populations 25,000 and greater in order to be able to include small towns in the research. With using a populations of 25,000 and greater, the sample size included 325 cities with populations ranging from roughly 25,000 to 3.5 million. Willits and Nowacki (2003) presented their results aggregately and disaggregately in order to determine if the predictors vary by police department type. As for variable for the research, there were three organizational…
Sheriff Higgins glanced over his shoulder and mopped his face with the soaked handkerchief. The crime scene vans arrived minutes before the cadaver dogs. Robert wasn’t sure which grated on his nerves worse, the whining from the hound, or the camera flashes that exploded at random. He gritted his teeth at the thought of his sleepy town becoming a circus. Still, it was better for him to hand over jurisdiction without protest, and he knew it.…
Straying from the straightforward criminologist story to instead feature realities that had been left buried, the element of truth shines. Not only are Roger and Bernard aficionados of historical truth, the third—and perhaps most notable point of view—inspector Cadin, surpasses his role as policeman to also transition to a seeker of uncovering the truth of the past that had been concealed. The further Cadin travels into this mystery, the more he brings the past to present. In following with the expectations of a detective novel, there are times when Cadin receives bogus leads (p. 73), fails to follow procedure (p. 113), or flat out abandons the case at hand in pursuit of the bizarre heist at the height on the mystery. Throughout the story, we are rarely given the chance to breathe.…
Title Maddie saw the shadowy figure plummet into the icy waters of the Ohio River and when it made impact the loud bang of ice breaking echoed across the forest. A moment later she heard the screams as the figure, most likely a man, slipped beneath the ice. Maddie sprinted down the steep banks wondering what help a 15 year old could be to a suicidal, possibly already dead man. She skidded to a stop at the banks of the river, not wanting to risk her life on the unstable ice and called out, “Are you okay!” As expected she got no response and tentatively took a step out on the ice.…
The Overlook On the news, we hear about someone being murdered daily in which detectives are on the case to find out who committed the crime. Murder cases are always a grueling process with many clues to try and find the one who committed the crime. “The Overlook” by Michael Connelly is an example of that, in which he gives detectives a murder case that leads him and the reader in many different directions, trying to figure out who killed Dr. Kent. Connelly starts off with a detective named Harry Bosch, who receives a call at midnight about a murder case.…
Two LAPD detectives are called to Nightmute, Alaska when 17-year-old Kay Connells is found murdered. During this time, detective Will Dormer and Hap Eckhart are under investigation from Internal Affairs regarding one of Dormer’s old cases. The first night there, Eckhart reveals to Dormer that IA has offered him immunity in exchange for his testimony. He also tells Dormer that he will accept the deal, infuriating Dormer. The next day, Dormer comes up with a plan to lure the suspect in the Connells’ case back to the scene of the crime.…
On January 23, 1947, a phone call was received by an editor from the Los Angeles Examiner by someone who claimed to be the killer and offered the editor mail items that belonged to Elizabeth Short (Stacks). The day after the editor received the phone call, a packet arrived that contained “Short’s birth certificate, business cards, photographs, names written on pieces of paper and an address book with the name Mark Hansen embossed on the cover” (Stacks). Two days after the phone call, “Elizabeth’s handbag and one shoe” were reportedly spotted sitting “on top of a garbage can in an alley” nearby Norton Avenue, which were later recovered at the dump (Stacks). Most of the evidence were prompts sent in to peak the interest of law enforcement, but some of this evidence lead to many great investigations that may help pin a finger on who the killer really…