Natural Born Killers

Cartilaginous fishes provide a notable example of successful evolutionary perseverance with a fossil record extending to at least the Lower Devonian over 400 million years ago (8). Carcharodon carcharias, also known as White Pointer, White Death, or more commonly, White Shark, is one of the greatest predators in the world among marine life. They are usually found in tropical areas but research has been conducted on these sharks from the Northwest Atlantic to Southern Africa to North East near…

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, chairman and adjudicator. The topic for our debate tonight is that we should adopt a productive shark culling policy and we, as the affirmative team believe that we benefit from such a policy. We define this topic as the Australian government should adopt a productive and beneficial shark culling program, which is the capture, monitor and occasionally the killing of sharks within vicinity of the beaches that place humans in risk and as the affirmative team we…

Humanity has lost many beloved celebrities in the past year. David Bowie…Prince…Carrie Fisher… and, of course, Tilikum, the killer whale who stared in Blackfish. The thirty-five-year-old SeaWorld Orlando “employee” mysteriously died on January 6. Naturally, the death has sparked debate, as Blackfish portrayed the whale as a misunderstood and mistreated prisoner who murdered three people out of anger towards his captors. However, the sensationalist media has made a tragedy out of something…

Victims, Cecilia Shephard age 22 and Bryan Hartnell age 20 were the Zodiac’s next center of attention. He approached them and claimed that he had killed a guard and stole a car because he was an escaped convict from the Montana prison. He explained that he then wanted their money and car to go to Mexico. Even though the couple agree to the plan Zodiac made Bartnell “hog tie” Shephard with precut pieces of clothes line he provided. He then tied Bartnell up too and said “I'm going to have to stab…

From 1924 to 1930 the city of Chicago had a widespread of violence and brutal murders. This was all stared by crime leader Al “Scar face” Capone who took over after his boss Johnny after had been badly injured after assassination. This led him to retirement. Bootlegging soon became a problem and Gangsters were getting involved all over the country as well as gambling and prostitution. Capone’s income was estimated around 60 million a year. Over the years Capone had been wanted for ruthlessly…

Audience Response - Assignment 2 Task 1 A Media Product that has had a strong impact on its audience is the film ‘Jaws’. This film uses the hypodermic needle technique as it emphasises a negative opinion on sharks and how they are dangerous man-killers which is what gave them such fearsome reputations. The film spawned an international panic about sharks and this created a mass audience effect as the attraction to go to destinations with beaches declined as people were afraid to go into the…

On August 18, 1983, Officer Patrick Anderson was off-duty when he was approached by a man named Francis Connelly in Denver, Colorado. Connelly admitted to Anderson, without any prompting, that he had murdered someone and he needed to talk about it. Anderson read Connelly the Miranda rights and asked him if he understood theses rights. Connelly understood the rights, but he still wanted to talk about the murder. Anderson was surprised that Connelly was still willing to confess to the crime, so he…

Case Study Type of Homicide The following is a case study of Simon Gittany and the intended murder of Lisa Harnum. First it must be understood that murder is a reckless act with intent to kill or grievously injure another (NSW Criminal Code Act 1900). It is known that Ms Harnum was the fiancée of Gittany (R v Gittany, 2013) and, as mentioned by Carcach & James (1998), this is an example of Intimate partner homicide, a murder between two people in an intimate relationship. On the 30th of July,…

In Volume 3 of my Serial Killers series, The Serial Killers Butchers and Lunatics, you will be introduced to some of the most vicious and disturbed Serial Killers. In Butchers in Lunatics we are going to explore the crimes and lives of men such as Ted Bundy, killer of at least 36 woman and perhaps more than 60. Randy Kraft convicted of 16 counts of murder and rape of young men. Herbert Mullin an almost forgotten serial killer from the 1970's who committed 13 murders. This lunatic believed…

Who was Otzi? Why was he murdered? How was he murdered? What happened? Those are all questions trying to be answered. Many people are writing down simple answers he was stabbed, he was shot with an arrow, it was an accident and etc. Ceman also known as Otzi the iceman, which is a Radiocarbon-Dated neolithic human being going back to 3300 B.C. He was found 1991 by hikers in the Italian-Austrian border. First thought to be a hiker who had bad luck. So Osteologists were called to the scene. They…