July27, 1981 six-year old Adam Walsh was abducted from a Sears department store in Hollywood, Florida. Revé Walsh, his mother, allowed young Adam to busy himself with a video game display while she shopped. A few minutes later, she returned to the display to find her son missing. What she did not know was that, there had been an argument between Adam and a group of kids at the display that resulted in them all being put out of the store where little Adam was abducted. About a month later, two fishermen discovered Adam’s severed head in a canal near Vero Beach.…
In 1984 Kirk Bloodsworth, a former Marine who later transferred to becoming a local waterman was the first person to be sentenced to death then exonerated due to first degree murder, sexual assault and rape. A nine year old girl was found dead in a wooded secluded area, the evidence on the body suggested that she was sexually assaulted, raped, strangled and psychically abused with a rock. Bloodsworth, twenty two when he was wrongly convicted and served nine years in prison before he was released. Bloodsworth was arrested due to an anonymous telephone call stating the local police that he was seen with the nine year old girl, earlier that day, hours before her death. A witness identified the perpetrator by a sketch shown on television, the…
Case 1 : Name of case: The kidnapping of three young women Victim(s): Sofia Silva, Kati and Kristin Lisk Suspect: Richard Marc Evonitz Overview: One day, Sofia Silva was kidnapped off of her front porch and found 5 weeks later in a nearby creek. Just 8 months later the same happened to Kati and Kristin Lisk who were the found floating in a river five days later. After investigating Kati and Kristin’s body, pink fibers were found on Kati’s body. Then in June of 2002, the killer struck again this time kidnapping a girl and taking her to an apartment where she was handcuffed for 18 hours. The girl escaped and led the police to the apartment but upon arrival the killer was gone.…
Regrettably, the kidnapping of Polly Klaas occurred and caught the attention of media nationally. From the beginning the media focused on sharing the picture and story of Polly Klaas, they shared the kidnapping, the two-month search, and eventually of discovery of the raped and strangled body of Polly. Even after the body was discovered the media continued to focus on this story, sharing the arrest and trial of career criminal Richard Davis. With so much publicity on the murder of Polly Klaas Jones reintroduced Reynold’s bill on March 1994 and this time the public safety committee voted to send the bill to the Assembly and then the Senate where the Democrats and Republicans approved it.…
Literacy Narrative A fiery red-headed, nine-year old, who lived at home alone, is who inspired me to learn how to read. Pippi Longstocking was the one and only person I idolized from the ages four to eight. My love for Pippy, and reading, began because my mother would read to me a couple of pages from Pippi’s books each night before bed.…
The Dollhouse (Short stories go in quotations) Autumn Oldaker I want a tiny doll to add to my collection, and I will take her while dressed in scrubs strolling the halls of a hospital. Today there is a variety of girls to choose from. As I explore the halls of the hospital, I fancy the infants because I have never had one that young. I explore the maternity wing in search of my new doll. I enter a room labeled 121 and a radiant baby girl lies in a woman’s arms.…
It was the crime of the century in the 1920’s, it was committed by two wealthy college men, Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr. and Richard Albert Lobe. They wanted to prove that they were smart enough to get away with murder. They said it would be the perfect crime and went on to perform the crime for the thrill of it, “To kidnap a child would be an act of daring—and no one, Loeb proclaimed, would ever know who had accomplished it.” (Baatz 1). It was indeed not the “perfect crime” they imagined.…
There are complex relationships between conflict and resolution in three short stories in The Heinemann Book of African Women 's Writing, first "Mother was a Great Man," by Catherine Obianuju Acholonu second, "The Pay-Packet," by Ifeoma Okoye and finally, "Saltless Ash" by Zaynab Alkali. All three of these short stories are written by women of Western Africa and all three of them share similarities and differences regarding the nature of the conflict as well as the resolution. In "Mother was a Great Man," the main character, Oyidiya feels she has done something wrong: "she had forced the hand of her chi" (Acholonu 74). And the result of this she feels is an exchange of gender roles between herself and her husband, Nekwe. Additionally, she faces not being able to bear a son, herself or by other wives and not even by a wife and her brother-in-law 's sperm.…
I am Poppy de Plant, the last hope of my country. I am the last one alive of my family and the only botanist left in Columbia. Population has greatly decreased in Columbia, ever since our enemy, Venezuela has release a load of wild lions, jaguars, leopards and tigers into our land. The president, one of the few survivors, has given me a vital assignment. He told me, "You are our last chance.…
Narrative- On 8Apr17 at 1236 hrs. I, Deputy Halbasch, was dispatched to 20880 Co Rd 91 for the report of an OFP violation. Dispatch informed me Amy Strandell was reporting that Lane Strandell had forced his way into the house after he was allowed to stay/reside in a cabin behind the home.…
There is a case that takes place in Welsh where a Wife is believed to have murdered her Husband and wrapped his body in plastic sheets and kept it a secret for 18 years. This case and the story a rose for Emily are connected to the fact that they bother murdered their love ones and successfully kept the body a secret for years. In a Rose for Emily Homer was last seen by Emily and never seen again until they discovered his body in the house. In this case former firefighter John Sabine was last seen in 1997with his wife and 18 years later they found his body was found in the garden of Leigh Ann…
I stand and look up to the massive granite pillar. I read the name "Wilbur" and then "Orville." "Who were they?" , I ask to myself. I turn my back to the pillar and look upon the rest of the memorial.…
He decided to sit in the car for a while but Zo was growing impatient because Havannah had texted him almost an hour ago and told him to meet her at home, but her car was not there. I wonder does she know? Women were known to have strong intuition, maybe Havannah felt death around the corner. He knew it was a possibility that she’d already heard about Papi, it was a big possibility that she may have gone over to Missy’s mansion and found her dead.…
The two crucial stories told by Piscine Molitor Patel, the main character of the novel Life Of Pi written by Yann Martel, contain completely different characters as well as different versions of events that took place while Pi was lost at sea. The differences of these two stories unite to form a commentary on religion, specifically religious tales, and the power of storytelling. In addition to their differences unveiling observations related to people’s beliefs, the similarities between the two also say something about how perception can change reality. The first more detailed story Pi tells includes a unique series events after a shipwreck which leaves the narrator stuck in a lifeboat with several animals, attempting to survive.…
In Winnie-the-Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh says, “...There is no hurry. We shall get there someday.” Our pal, Winnie-the-Pooh, couldn’t be more correct. Patience truly is a virtue and I remember one fateful year that I was having an extreme amount of trouble in the video game Kingdom Hearts II. Kingdom Hearts is a video game crossover of the realms of Final Fantasy and Walt Disney.…