Sleeping Murder

really believe there’s something different about the eyes of murderers?”-Bill James. Murderers and psychopaths look just like everyday people. No one wants to think of their neighbor as capably of committing such a feat but it is always possible. Murders happen every day and those men and woman accused of being guilty have to go through a trial. That trial could go either way depending on the evidence presented and the way it is presented. Nowadays if someone attends a trial in court they…

Hamlet is a play that was written by Shakespeare where the plot of the story is where Hamlet seeks revenge for his father’s murder. Hamlet uses grief and acts mad to where no one suspects him of being a danger to anyone. There are a few important themes in this play, which include lies and deceit and also revenge. Hamlet is one of the main characters in the story where he finds out who killed his father and plots revenge hamlet. Hamlet has many interesting characteristics and traits that help…

morals. This causes his feelings to drift so far away that it is as if he had no remorse or feeling toward death, including the death which involved his own mother. It caused him to be okay helping Raymond Sintes beat up his mistress for apparently sleeping around. It didn't affect him because he doesn't respond to injustice. It…

Macbeth is in her sights she shows no emotion of fear, guilt or pity. Instead, she had an intention of making Macbeth seem weak compared to her. “The sleeping and the dea are but as pictures; ‘tis the eye of childhood that fears a panting devil.” (II.ii.57-59). In my own opinion, Lady Macbeth can be considered more guilty than Macbeth for Duncan's murder; she is willing to go above and beyond to get the job done, she placed more innocent lives at risk, she pushed her husband to do things he is…

psychopathic tendencies - tries to pave his path to glory and wealth through marriage and murder. Claudius’ gluttonous nature results in his portrayal as the villain of Hamlet because of his double murder of regicide and fratricide, his marriage to his former sister-in-law,…

police force is investigating multiple deaths. In the beginning of Stiletto, the police are called scene, in which one man’s throat is cut, and the other man has been gutted. The latter of the two survives. The police then follow up on a string of murders, which we know to have been committed by Raina, on her journey for justice. Detective Hanover in Stiletto doesn’t believe that the murderer is a woman, because of the amount of strength she would have had to exert in order to slice the man’s…

killer whose main target was homosexual young men. From 1962 to 1977, he (with the help of a partner) committed more than forty acts of murder and was sentenced to life in prison. These flagrant acts led to speculation about his motives and past, prompting investigations even after Kearney was behind bars. Although almost nobody wants to think about gruesome murders, it is still interesting to see what caused Kearney to do what he did. Patrick Kearney came to be an infamous murderer of the…

two hundred in Chicago by luring his victims to his “hotel” while keeping everyone 's suspicion low by telling very convincing lies. He killed these people in a building he advertised as the World’s Fair Hotel. It was not a hotel but an intricate murder castle filled with different ways to kill his victims. Holmes was always interested in medicine and implicated that later in life. He was eventually arrested while trying to scam a life insurance policy out of thousands of dollars. Holmes grew up…

portray the life of Delbert Ward and his take in a court case revolving around his brother’s death. On one side, there are the New York State Police and a handful of locals who believe the Delbert is the one who murdered his brother while they were sleeping. However, the Ward family itself and most of the local town people who through the trial fight alongside the Wards to prove Delbert is innocent. Throughout the film we can see the filmmakers, Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, argue their…

Macbeth is a complicated story, full of betrayal, witchcraft and murder. In Shakespeare’s famous play, Macbeth, Macbeth is a loyal subject, who fights bravely for his king, until three witches approach him and bring him the news that he himself will be king. The story then takes a turn for the worse, as Macbeth becomes greedy for power and will do anything to take and secure it. Macbeth commits terrible crimes but then realizes what he has done. Macbeth has a theme of guilt and conscience. This…