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    Frozen Blooded Murder Insanity is defined as being in the state of mental illness, madness, or lacking the ability to fully understand right from wrong. When used in the courtroom, many defendants and criminals plead not guilty by reason of insanity, which is often misused, making it hard to differentiate the truly innocent ones, and the real criminals. Roald Dahl’s short story, “Lamb to the Slaughter” is a great representation of the insanity plea. The main character Mary Maloney kills her…

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    Anna Garcia Case Analysis

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    Anna Garcia had an autopsy performed by Dr. King on August 15, 2012 at 11:00 AM. She was a 38 year-old female Hispanic who weighed 165 pounds and was 64 inches tall at the time of the autopsy. Anna Garcia’s autopsy is due to her sudden and unexpected death. Suspects for her death are Alex Garcia, Doug Greene, Erica Piedmont, and Lucy Leffingwell. The evidence at the crime scene has been analyzed and the findings were reported. Fingerprints found at the crime scene were found to be Alex’s. A…

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    The novel In Cold Blood by Truman Capote details the investigation of the seemingly motiveless murders of a small farming town family, the Clutters. In the book, the tone of the writing creates a feeling of emotionless fatalism, emphasizing overall the unfairness of life, as can be seen throughout the novel, especially after the murder of the Clutter family. A fatalistic tone is expressed mainly in the dialogue of the murderous characters Dick and Perry. The unfairness of life is shown through…

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    In Cold Blood

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    Holcomb,” approaching the Clutter property, the chapter ends and the next time Dick and Perry are mentioned they are “Far off, in the town of Olathe,”(57, 72). Capote completely skips over the murder of the Clutters and fills it with other character’s and their reactions to the murder. Now Capote has the actual murder as fuel to keep the reader wondering and engaged. The structure of In Cold Blood allows Capote to paint over details with other anecdotes he has gathered and leave the reader none…

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    tragic murder of a teen girl in Regina, Saskatchewan. In January of 2015, Skylar Prockner murdered Hannah Leflar by stabbing her multiple times. 16 at the time, the teen had become furious when he learned that his former girlfriend had started dating someone new (Soloducha, 2017). Typically in a case involving a young offender, the name of the convicted criminal would not be released, as per the Youth Criminal Justice Act. Unfortunately for Prockner, he received an adult sentence for the murder.…

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    In the book, In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote the two killers, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, should have both been sentenced to death. Even though Dick never pulled the trigger or assisted anyway in the killing of the Clutter family he never told Perry not to stop. Dick brought the shotgun and had intended on using it but never did. Perry was the one that killed all four if the Clutter’s so his sentencing was more clear cut than Dick’s. They killed them left and on their way back…

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    Cntoia Brown Case Study

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    Cyntoia Brown is a young woman who was sentenced to life in prison in 2004. Cyntoia shot and killed a man named Johnny Allen, and was found guilty and tried as an adult. Cyntoia started having sexual intercourse at the age of 7. She slept with at least 36 boys and men’s that she could remember. Cyntoia was born into confusion, her mother Georgina was a drug attic and abused alcohol. Georgina was abused as a child, and young adult. She experienced getting rape by men, she was a prostitute, and…

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    dynamic to the story, but for the living Clutter family this made the killers relatable which sickened them greatly. By understanding all sides of the story, Capote told a complete story that gives the readers the complete story behind the quadruple murder. Truman Capote explores the theme of nature vs nurture and investigates what makes a killer by giving an in-depth background on Dick and Perry. Dick had a rather normal childhood with both parents in a stable environment which elicits the…

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    In Saw 2 Jigsaw Essay

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    In Saw 1 an anxiety disorder was present which is obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). One of the main detectives he was so obsessed with trying to figure out the case to the point it drives him crazy and strives to be Jigsaw’s assistant on basically killing people. Before his Saw killing spree, the only family he had was his sister and someone murdered her and that what dove him to start killing. He became a master mind in Jigsaw’s games and started taking over them. He was persistent and good…

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    In the book Of Mice & Men, written by John Steinbeck, the novel concludes by one of the main characters, George, killing his best friend and counterpart, Lennie, after Lennie accidentally kills a young woman. I believe that George was justified in his decision to kill Lennie. Lennie was a character who caused harm and destruction throughout the book, despite not meaning to. He also prevented George from living his life because of the way George had to take care of him and nurture him, much like…

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