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.…
Sources such as CBS are still making false accusations to this day. The story soon became used for entertainment as opposed to a matter of obtaining justice. In September 2016, CBS aired a miniseries titled “The Case of: JonBenet Ramsey” where they falsely accuse brother, Burke Ramsey of murdering his little sister in 1996. As this case remains unsolved, Burke filed a lawsuit against the television program for confirming this conspiracy…
Police have collected 1,500 pieces of evidence and more than 20,000 tips, letters or emails, but they still haven't been able to solve the case. JonBenet Ramsey's body was found a few hours after her mother called 911 and shared that she was missing. There was a ransom note in the house asking for $118,000, but the family didn't even have time to pay this money if they had wanted to before they found the little girl's body in their basement. The autopsy did reveal that JonBenet died of asphyxiation caused by strangulation, and it was ruled a homicide.…
One night a father walked down to his basement finding his seven year old daughter dead. On December 26, 1996 in Boulder, California, Patsy got up from her sleep to get a glass of milk, on her way down she found a ransom note indicating that someone had their daughter, Jonbenet Ramsey and to get her back safely they would have to pay a fee of 118,000. Patsy ran upstairs and woke up her husband John and they called the police immediately because, they thought Jonbenet had been kidnapped from the Ramsey residence. Police came soon after the call and searched around the house for any clues or evidence to where she went and who took her. They weren’t necessary looking for jonbenet because the note made it seem like she was abducted from the house, but John, her father went down to the basement finding jonbenet tied up, dead.…
On November 14, 1959 four members of the Clutter family were murdered by two heinous men looking to find what they believed would bring them riches, but instead brought upon them a lot of stress/worry and eventually a death sentence. The Clutter family was known as the second richest family in Holcomb, and Mr. Clutter was a very respected man, father, and farmer by the Holcomb community. Many outsiders believed Mr. Clutter kept cash money in his house and this myth ultimately lead to him and his family to being robbed and killed. Holcomb, Kansas prior to this incident was an extremely safe and secure area with minimal criminal activity so much so that its residents felt safe enough to leave their doors unlocked at night, as well as this area…
There were several things that should have had changes brought against both John and Patsy Ramsey. There were several open windows and at least one open door in the house on the night of the murder, which would make it easier for an intruder to gain entry to the home. The fact that it was later determined that Patsy Ramsey constructed and staged the ransom note with the exact amount of her husband’s bonus that was left at the scene by the Colorado Bureau of Investigations and that John Ramsey contaminated the evidence of the immediate area of the body and evidence on the body by moving it should have at least had them brought up on some type charges. Even though both of the Ramsey’s were cleared by DNA evidence, the police seriously botched…
The homicide of John Hossack will always be a mysterious cold case. The person who truly killed John will never be known from the very little evidence left in the bedroom. Though with very little evidence all fingers pointed to Margaret Hossack and Mrs. Wright for the killings of their husbands. Therefore, Margaret and Mrs. Wright story didn’t add up to how their husbands were killed and were incarcerated for life. There are two sides to every story, but only John, Margaret and Mrs. Wright knew what happened that very night.…
The video we watched was about the sixtieth anniversary of Emmett Till being murdered in Mississippi. A fourteen year old boy named Emmett Till from Chicago was murdered when he went to Mississippi to visit his cousins. During the time of his murder there was at least 500 lynches know to have occurred in Mississippi. During one of his days of his visit him and his cousins went to a general store. Emmett whistled at a white women not knowing how dangerous it was going to be for his life.…
‘I was little Miss Colorado. This Christmas I would be 26, but to everyone I’ll always be 6.’ Is a pretty powerful quote from ‘JonBenet’ out of the trailer for an upcoming movie about her case. This movie is one of many movies and documentaries that are released due to the 20th anniversary of the case. There is a very interesting documentary called “The Case of: JonBenet Ramsey” which has been released very recently.…
The Greenlease Kidnapping An Institute for small children in Kansas City, Missouri called Sister Morad of the French of Notre Dame De Sion was having school on September 28, 1953. As the children were having school, there was a knock at the door and as one of the teachers opened the door to a woman who said she was the Aunt of Bobby Greenlease. Robert Cosgrove Greenlease Jr., refer to as Bobby, was the six-year-old son of Robert C Greenlease Sr. Robert Sr. was a weathly automobile dealer who resided in Mission Hill, Kansas City, Missouri. Bobby’s Aunt informed the teacher that Bobby’s mother had suffered a heart attack and taken to St. Mary’s Hospital.…
It is important to contrast the Ramsey ransom demand alongside other genuine threat texts, and one of the most notable is the Lindbergh kidnapping in 1932. This is one of the most infamous cases regarding threat texts and a note was left demanding $50,000 initially in return of their infant son, however, this increased to $75,000 . The case concerned the abduction of a couple’s son who was later found dead just over two months after the initial kidnapping. It is important to contrast the Ramsey ransom demand alongside other genuine threat texts, and one of the most notable is the Lindbergh kidnapping in 1932. This is one of the most infamous cases regarding threat texts and a note was left demanding $50,000 initially in return of their infant…
It is clear now that the whole house was a crime scene. The morning of the investigation police, victim advocates, and JonBenet’s family roamed around, what should have been a crime scene, cleaning up evidence (Glick et al.). Mark Beckner, the former Boulder Police Chief, feels that the scene could have been secured much better and he considers this a mistake. Mark Beckner also believes that the police not interviewing John and Patsy Ramsey right after the discovery of…
We may never know but we have a pretty good guess. It is obvious that Jon Benet’s brother Burke Ramsey killed his sister due to behavioral problems, jealousy, and his parents’ interference in the case. Burke Ramsey nine year-old brother to a six year-old beauty princess, you see him as a little boy, he is also a murderer. For example, Burke Ramsey had many social graces that made him an abominable child towards his family and others around him.…
Paul Child met Julia while they were both stationed in Ceylon during WW II. They were members of the Office of Strategic Service. They got married in 1946 after they returned to the U.S. As amazing as it might seem, if you know how popular Julia Child became with her cooking, is that at that time Paul realized that she didn’t really know how to cook. She had grown up in a household that had a chef. Once Julia started cooking she discovered that she really enjoyed it.…
The Black Dahlia Murder is one of the top 10 most famous unsolved crimes in the United States. Also one of the most famous in LA based on the awfulness of what happened. Elizabeth Short was an aspiring actress from Boston and she moved to Los Angeles to make sure her dreams came true, but ironically, it wasn’t until her death when she really became famous. Her body was found January 15th, 1947 in a lot near present day Leimert park. Her body was cut clean in half at the waistline with extensive mutilation with multiple other cuts all over the body.…