Murder

On March 8th, 1985, Kirk Bloodsworth was arrested based off of an anonymous call telling police that he was seen with the victim of a murder that occurred on June 25th, 1984. The victim was a 9 year old girl that had been found dead in an excluded wooded area. She had been beaten with a rock, strangled, and sexually assaulted. The anonymous call stated that the killer was 6 feet, 5 inches, and that he had curly blonde hair, a mustache, a tan, and was skinny. Bloodsworth was 6 feet, had red hair,…

Short Story Analysis: The Murders in the Rue Morgue “The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis” (475). This quote from The Murders in the Rue Morgue perfectly explains Poe’s position on crime solving and the hero of his story. The art of observing and following along with the narrator is essentially introduced by Poe in this story, as few authors before his time…

States, but no one knows they are behind these murders. Elise leads a pretty hectic double life, with her father breathing behind her neck to kill the next suspect, and a growing political career on the other side. Elise is still in the dark about her mother’s passing, just knowing basic characteristics of who she is trying to find. Every time she tries to back out, her father threatens to turn…

This story begins in Cedar Rapids Iowa in the autumn. The CRPD has taken in a suspect in the murder of Jacob Fulton. Jake Guckenberger is the suspect, the two officers that picked him up were officers Lindsay and Adam picked him up two blocks from the murder he was winded from running but wasn't wearing running clothes or shoes, he was wearing a pair of boots similar to to boot prints found at the crime seen. When they finally took Jake to the police station where he was taken into an…

Anatomy of a Murder Legal Analysis - Aakriti Gera Anatomy of a Murder is a 1959 American court drama directed by Otto Preminger. The plot follows a lawyer who takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who is accused of murdering the local innkeeper after his wife claimed that the innkeeper had raped her. The movie is extremely complex and in certain ways is a social documentation of the time the movie was made and released in. The movie deals with a few legal and ethical issues from start to end.…

in the back, before a neighbour scared him away by shouting, “Let that girl alone.” Still, no one intervened and her killer returned 10 minutes later and raped and stabbed her. In the aftermath of her murder, a neighbour admitted to the police that he “didn’t want to get involved.” Genovese’s murder is one of the most famous examples of the bystander effect due to the apathy displayed by the reported 38 bystanders. The facts surrounding the case have been vague, with some pointing out that there…

it may be hard for one to reach a verdict. To decide whether one is innocent or not, one must evaluate all given evidence and testimonies. As a juror on the case of Maria Santiago, I was given the opportunity to find if Santiago was guilty in the murder of Allison Santiago, her six month old daughter. After evaluating all the evidence given, I have come to the conclusion that I have formed no reasonable doubt towards this case, therefore my conviction is that Maria Santiago was guilty her the…

Justifiable Murder n after by sentencing over 72,000 to death in his reign. ()By the 1700’s English established that over 200 different crimes that would seem nearly insignificant today were punishable by death. For example, execution was a reasonable punishment for cutting down a neighbor 's tree. ( ) In the days of monarchy few doubted the morality of executions. Most believed that king had the divine right to do so from God himself. Going further in a christian perspective, Paul writes in…

The Cryptic Murder of The Bordens Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks, when she had saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one. In the children´s song that is quite dark and morbid, there is an actual story behind it. In the 1800´s, the Borden family was known as one of the families of the town to be of higher class with lots of land and money. Well, that name soon turned from a name that was respected, to one that was feared and full of questions. The mystery…

Murder Vs Mustache Pets can be a symbol of our childhood or our safety zone, but what if they were taken from us? Although this can be horrific, it is just one situation this kind-hearted man had to face. The Old Man in “The Story of the Old Man Who Made Withered Trees to Flower” had the more difficult conflict to face than Mike in “The Moustache.” The kind-hearted Old Man was taken advantage of again and again by his murdering, thieving neighbor, whereas Mike only had to deal with his…