Maria Nemeth's Homicide Case Study

Homicide in Sunrise, Florida Thirty-one year old Maria Nemeth was living with her 24 year old boyfriend, Fidel Lopez. On Sunday, September 20th, 2015 at 4:02 p.m. Maria Nemeth, was pronounced dead by Sunrise Fire Rescue (Roustan, 2015). It was her boyfriend Lopez, who called the police, telling operators “his girlfriend (Maria Nemeth) was having trouble breathing and was going to die” (Roustan, 2015, p. 1). Later in police questioning, Lopez recounts the gruesome events of the night before. After drinking half a bottle of 1800 tequila, Fidel and Nemeth had sex (Roustan, 2015). While having sex in a closet, Nemeth twice calls out her ex-husbands name. Immediately Lopez leaves Nemeth in the closet and goes throughout the apartment breaking things. This explains how investigators found a smashed sliding glass door and punched holes in the walls (Roustan, 2015). Soon after, Lopez goes back to Nemeth who lies in the closet unconscious. While she is unconscious, …show more content…
While having sex with her, Nemeth yelled out her ex-husbands name, which caused him to destroy their apartment and then violate her body while she was unconscious. The homicide case of Maria Nemeth, is just one of many murder cases in the United States. It is common knowledge that the United States has high rates of violence, as compared to other industrialized countries. However, just like the South it theorized to have a “culture of violence” the same can be said for the entire United States. As compared to other industrialized countries, where violence is not used to advertise men’s cologne or disguised as a sport, violence rates tend to be lower. Whereas in the United States, where there are some many deviant violent cultures and subcultures, the negative effects of being overly exposed to violence is downplayed. And because of such its harmful effects result in high murder rates, high assault rates,