Serial port

The murders of Betty Boyd, Verline Boyd, and Evangela Boyd in 1993 were tragic and heartbreaking. The man accused of the murders, Sherwood Brown, caused the police to chase him and ending up making himself seem even more guilty (Sherwood, 1997). He was convicted of the murders and sentenced to two life sentences and the death penalty. After many attempts made by Brown for DNA testing during his time in prison, the Mississippi Supreme Court granted the testing in 2012 and found he may not be the…

The documentary, ‘The Diary of Jack the Ripper Beyond Reasonable Doubt (1993)’ is a documentary about a diary/journal that was discovered in 1992 by Michael Barrett. It is mentioned at the beginning of this documentary that although the author was not named, the evidence clearly suggests the writer of this journal was the‘Liverpudlian cotton merchant’ James Maybrick. At the time when this journal emerged, many questions arose; surrounding the new identity of Jack the Ripper who some historians…

Herman Webster Mudgett, better known by his alias Dr. Henry Howard “H.H.” Holmes, was one of the first publicized serial killers in American history. Called a “blood-thirsty demon” in an 1896 New York Times article, Holmes was convicted and hanged for the murder of Benjamin F. Pietzel, but he confessed to 27 murders and his body count has been estimated to be nearer 200. Holmes, who started out his life of crime with insurance fraud when he was just out of college, eventually confessed “I was…

Think of the words “serial killer.” Who comes to mind? Many have left an undesirable impression on the world, but some tend to stand out from the rest. One in particular seems to be especially unique against the others: Richard Kuklinski. Standing at six and a half inches at three hundred pounds and nicknamed “The Iceman,” Richard Kuklinski was a brutal and cruel man known for killing more than one hundred men in his lifetime. Most people who knew of Kuklinski’s background would not be surprised…

Lewis Fogle was Convicted February 26, 1982 for second degree murder and rape at the age of 24. On July 31, 1976, a man found the body of a 15-year-old girl named Deann Long. The man was picking blackberries when the body was found. When the autopsy was performed, it revealed that Deann Long had been raped, then shot in the back of the head. Deann was last seen the previous day walking home when a blue car pulled up beside her and stopped. The driver had told Deann that her brother had gotten…

their sleep, or he would use chloroform soaked rags and suffocated them to death. After he murdered his guests, he would then burn their bodies at the bottom of the hotel’s basement. From these crimes, Holmes is said to be one of America’s first known serial killers (Larson, 2003). Furthermore, building the fair was a long and brutal process since it had to be completed in a short about of time. Daniel H. Burnham, one of Chicago’s talented architects, was the exposition’s director of works. Him…

Many theories seem to surround the case of Hae Lee and Adnan Syed. The question that everyone is asking themselves is, who did it, was it Adnan, was it Jay, or was it a hitman that Jay knew hired by Adnan? What makes it more difficult are the changing stories, witnesses foggy memory and inconsistencies on what happened that day. Also the evidence that was gathered and presented can make one think Jay and Adnan definitely had something to do with her death however neither murdered Hae. After…

New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and Harper’s. Clearly, Erik Larson is a highly decorated and accomplished writer. The Devil in the White City simultaneously tells the stories of the architects who designed the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago, and a serial killer who took advantage of the World Fair to kill several unsuspecting tourists. Larson contrasts the brilliance of the fair’s…

In American Psycho, the main character, Patrick Bateman, exhibits reoccurring gruesome murders and executions. His tendencies are closely associated with psychopaths, but Patrick Bateman has the antisocial personality disorder. Repeated law offenses, recurring violations of other’s rights, manipulation by charm, hostility, impulsive activity, and lack of remorse characterizes the antisocial personality disorder (“Antisocial personality disorder”). Those with this disorder ordinarily disregard…

The Collection—Biographical Connections 1. Zora Neale Hurston was born in Notasulga, Alabama on January 7th 1891 ("Zora Neale Hurston Biography”). 2. Hurston was three years old when her family moved to Eatonville, Florida, the first all-African American town in the US ("Zora Neale Hurston”). 3. Farther along in Hurston’s life, her father became the mayor of Eatonville ("Zora Neale Hurston”). 4. In 1939 Hurston married Albert Price, a man 25 years her junior. Their marriage ended seven months…