Ted Stevens

The Effects of Gender on Serial Murder The car slowly makes its way to the side of the nearly empty road. The middle-aged man rolls down his window, knowing exactly why a woman would be on the side of the highway dressed in barely anything in the middle of the night; however, the man does not know what will become of this encounter, but he is anxious at the prospect of her services. The woman gets into the vehicle, and together they go to a hotel with a sign that only partially lights up.…

There have been limited studies in those pertaining to female serial killers. This article Lethal Ladies: What We Know About Female Serial Killers explores the lives of 10 women who are serial murderers. This study was constructed to have the opportunity to compare and contrast against a past study done by Kelleher and Kelleher. Because female serial murderers are very rare, this leaves little resources to be utilized for the researchers. This study explores the nature and statistics of 10…

Elizabeth Howlett's Story Elizabeth Howlett was born in Southampton, MA, but her roots are also in Amherst. When she was younger she had the nickname of Betsi, and the reason for is that her parents didn’t have a nickname and so they wanted all their sons to have one. She moved to Vermont when she was eight because her father wanted more land than the one he had in MA, therefore great part of her childhood was spent in VT. Here is her story: Life in the farm: Elizabeth or Betsi comes from a…

Serial killers have seen a rise in popularity as of late. With several television shows and novels based in these crimes, analyzing serial killers has been a popular pastime. With all of the recent attention given to serial murder, there is a growing interest in the psychology behind their behavior. When analyzing them, certain factors appear to be present. These factors are what lead them to become a serial killer and these seem to be shared with multiple killers. Serial killers are both born…

Criminal profiling is a method used to predict who is committing crimes and plays a role in catching many serial killers. Profiling begins with vague generalizations, which is probably why it is often attacked. In the instance of serial killers, they are commonly a white male who is somewhere in his twenties to forties. While this clearly is not always the case, it is often correct, although this could be attributed to a large part of the population fitting this demographic. However, profilers…

The murder case of Hae Min Lee is full of many holes and facts that don’t match up. That’s what makes the case intriguing, a person could take either side. Who is the real killer though? Adnan is rightfully innocent due to Jay’s testimony, the lack of evidence in Jay’s account, and contamination of evidence by the police in the investigation. Hae’s body was linked to the back of her car with no supporting physical evidence to Adnan, yet he was still accused. On January 13, 1999 Hae Min Lee was…

“Frankie and Johnny” is a commonly known murder ballad written by numerous musicians that is about a woman named Frankie who kills her lover whose name is Johnny. [It] is a traditional American murder ballad, but you might not know it was based on a true story (Cellania, “The Story Behind”). Many well-known singers have covered this famous murder ballad such as Louis Armstrong, Lead Belly, and Johnny Cash. Their versions of the ballad are very popular but follow very loosely for entertainment…

drienne Rich (1929-2012) was by many regarded as the voice of her generation. Her work was often political, and her poetry explored themes such as change, feminism and sex. In the earlier years, having a family, she often wrote her poems in between chores. Perhaps it was her traditional lifestyle gave her work a “neat and orderly” (Rich, as cited in Mays 912) tint. “Aunt Jennifer's tigers” was published at the mere age of 21. As times changed, so did her poetry, growing more social and political…

Her career began with her first book of Poems in 1953 when she was in her twenties three years before the appearance of Robert Conquest’s anthology of modern poetry, New Lines. In the Introduction to the anthology, Conquest discussed intellectual clarity and directness of expression as the distinguishing qualities of the new poetry, as opposed to what he described as the “vague romanticism” of poets like Dylan Thomas, George Barker, Edith Sitwell and others. In this collection she reveals a…

David Videcette is a British detective mystery writer best known for writing the DI Jake Flannagan series of novels. He is a former Scotland Yard Detective with the London Metropolitan Police who specialized in organized crime and terrorism. During a career spanning more than two decades he has tracked down many dangerous criminals, interviewed numerous witnesses, and searched hundreds of properties. Today he puts that knowledge into use in writing the DI Jake Flannagan series of novels. The…