“Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart” was an intriguing and plot-twisting documentary of the Pamela Smart case. The documentary covered every aspect of the case and explored all of the different decisions and actions that took place within the case. It was the first the first trial to be covered on national television, and the national media coverage made the case even more popular. Greggory and Pamela Smart resided in New Hampshire, and the couple had been married approximately a little over a year when Greggory was murdered. Greggory Smart had an affair in December of 1989, and it had a negative impact on Pamela. Pamela was the Director of Media Services for the New Hampshire school district. One of the many schools she covered was Winnacunnet …show more content…
Two of their other friends, Vance “JR” Lattime and Raymond Fowler were waiting to drive them away from the scene. June 1st 1990, a month after the murder Billy Flynn, Vance Lattime, and Pete Randall were brought into custody by police for their involvement in the murder. Cecelia Pierce was brought into custody soon after and was asked to wear a wire in conversations with Pamela. In August of 1990, Detective Pelletier called Pam and she answered and said “Media Center.” Pamela Smart was then arrested in the middle of the media center. The media coverage of the case gave a lot of information about the case and almost every citizen knew about it. There were many accusations on the actions of Pamela that were portrayed in the media before the trial. This allowed citizens to form their own opinion and judgement for the …show more content…
Smart does not believe she has done anything wrong or committed any type of crime, even too this day. She carries the traits of a psychopath which are: (8) poor judgement and failure to learn by experience, (9) Pathologic egocentricity and incapacity for love, and (15) sex life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated. These three traits elucidate her actions and thought processes that were depicted in the documentary. Smarts poor judgement was showcased when she had sexual relations with a minor. To add to her poor judgement, Smart had sex with Billy Flynn for over a month; thus showcasing that she does not learn from her mistakes. Pamela Smart also has a incapacity for love because, she has an affair and claims to not love or care for Billy Flynn. If Pamela Smart loved her husband Greggory Smart, she would not have had an affair multiple times. Smart also showcases her incapacity for love by claiming to not love or care for Billy Flynn. To augment Smart’s incapacity to love, her sex life was impersonal with Billy Flynn. Smart did not care or have feelings for Billy Flynn and it is depicted throughout the
However, there were many others who were involved in the trial against Casey Anthony. For example, there was the bounty hunter Leonard Padilla, he tried to get a lead on Caylee from Casey after she was released from jail. Meter reader Roy Kronk had found a plastic bag of human remains in a wooded area near the Anthonys' home, the remains were confirmed to be those of Caylee Marie Anthony. After the trial has been started, there have been many more people involved in this criminal case. Casey’s defense, Jose Baez shocked the media when he accused Casey’s father of covering up the death of Caylee in the family pool and for sexually abusing her. Involved with George, was his mistress Krystal Holloway, who had little relations to the case. This led Casey to revealing about her brother, Lee Anthony who she had claimed had made sexual advances towards her. However Lee Anthony does not turn out to be the father of Caylee, so he shows no real importance to the case.
To begin, I will provide a summary of what happened prior-to and throughout the duration of the trial. Caylee Marie Anthony was a two-year-old American girl who lived in Orlando, Florida with her mother, Casey Marie Anthony, and her maternal grandparents, George and Cindy Anthony. On July 15, 2008, she was reported missing to 9-1-1 by Cindy, who said she h...
Stevenson took McMillian’s case after reading his case file and found his case was full of vary questionable facts, circumstances and evidence against his client. The cases involved the murder of a local girl in Monroe County where McMillian resided. Stevenson (2014) “In the late morning of November, 1, 1986, Ronda Morrison… was found dead on the floor of Monroe Cleaners…” (p, 30). Due to testimony by people who never knew or met McMillian, McMillian was charged and sentenced to the death penalty for Morrison’s
Michael Kirk and Peter J. Boyer. (2000, January 18). The killer at Thurston High. May 5, 2010, by FrontLine: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/kinkel/etc/script.html
On April 17, he pleaded not guilty to the charges and the trial was set for April 27. Three days before the trial, a group of people kidnapped Parker from his jail cell. J.P. Walker and Jewell Alford were two of the kidnappers. The men had two cars waiting on them for their escape. They later drove to Louisianan to make sure the traffic was clear. Once they saw the coast was clear, they drove Parker to a bridge, beat him, shot him in the chest twice from approximately six inches away, and then threw his body into Pearl River. Parkers' beaten, decomposing body was found floating in the river ten days
In an interview with Diane Sawyer, Jaycee said that her first words to the man that had taken her away from her mother were, “My parents are too poor, they won’t be able to afford the ransom,” but Phillip Garrido wasn’t looking for ransom. Garrido was already a registered sexefender at the time of the kidnapping, and had just been released from prison in 1988 after kidnapping and raping 25-year-old, Katie Callaway in 1977. Although his sentence was set to fifty years in federal prison and five years in a state prison, he was let out after serving just eleven years of his sentence. Garrido also had a drug and alcohol problem, which had already gotten him into trouble in the past, and was the start of his sex addiction. Phillip Garrido wasn’t the only bad guy in the kidnapping of Dugard, his wife, Nancy, was actually the cause of the entire crime. (Sawyer,2011)
The behavior of juveniles is very drastically affected by the families in crisis. Psychologist Eric Berman gives describes a family in crisis and the subsequent effect on a child through an article from his book, Scapegoat where Berman tells how an eight-year-old boy’s personal problems and subsequent behavior resulted from an effort to repress the family’s basic problem: “During the year, Roscoe’s father had been sick with a heart condition and now was on the brink of death. Open heart surgery was his only hope, and the doctors Gave him a few months to live. Despite the tragic implications of these circumstances and the fact that the child’s father could die at any time, the family never talked about his condition or their own future.” Children
Sarah Koenig, the narrator of Serial spent a year trying to disentangle a seem to be, simple puzzle. However, to some, it may seem more problematic with the minimum evidence provided. In 1999, a high school student was found dead and Sarah Koenig, along with many others spent over a year investigating this case. What day, time, area, and who connects to this case that makes it so difficult to solve? The gist of this case was that Hae Min Lee went missing one day after school and her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed must have been at fault. He was charged because he seems to be the most equitable person to blame, due to their recent breakup. The young women, Hae Min Lee was recorded dead on January 13th and on February 25, 2000, Adnan Syed was convicted
Sue Grafton once stated: “Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right.” This is clearly the thought the Boulder Colorado police conceived in the case of little beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey. As many have observed from the onslaught of media coverage, the day after Christmas 1996, six year old Jon Benet Ramsey was found buried under a white blanket, bound, beaten, and strangled to death in the wine cellar of their Boulder home. With such a strikingly rare and glamorous story of a six year old beauty queen dead, who was a part of a “perfect American upper-middle class family”, combined with a lack of a lead and ever mounting suspicion piling up against the parents it was no surprise to find that it was fuel to the media and soon stories sold and became a matter of competition between the press. So, like wildfire, this heart-breaking story spread, stretching across the nation, shattering the souls of the world. News broadcasts, magazine and newspaper articles, and television specials all shaped and molded peoples perceptions of this beautiful child’s murder, especially her parents, John and Pasty Ramsey’s involvement or lack there of. The police and FBI’s merciless quest to connect Jon Benet’s murder to her parents, seemed to cause the them to overlook important evidence, or at the very least dismiss suspicious findings that would otherwise send red flags to investigators. There are many contributors as to why this case remains unsolved including lack of investigative expertise, failure to protect valuable evidence, and focusing too much on the parents as suspects but, ultimately, the over involvement of...
John and Janet Doe brought their 16 year-old daughter, Jane Doe, into my office for evaluation. They are concerned about her regression in academic function. To gather more information for my evaluation, I interviewed Jane, her mother, and one of her teachers, and gathered Jane’s educational and medical records. I obtained further data from behavioral observation and standardized psychological testing. After collecting all of the information I needed, I have concluded that Jane has developed Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD).
Charles Smith attacked easy targets; many of those he helped convict shared parenting similarities. James Lockyer represented Marquardt and several others in which Smith played a part in the conviction. He asserts that being an “easy, easy mark” was the common denominator among those he helped exonerate from Smith’s wrongdoing and “Tammy was a good example of an easy mark [being] a young, single mother who was impoverished and on welfare” (Shapiro, 2011). It becomes very clear that Charles Smith targeted his victims regardless of the evidence found (or fabricated) to support their guilt or innocence. He speculated on issues that were so far from his line of duty as a medical expert, raising legitimate concern of his intention to fulfill his assigned role, or if his desire be a hero for the prosecution and secure convictions of ‘failed parents’. Tammy Marquardt easily fit into this category of poor parent being a “teen mother with a history of substance abuse and troubled relationships with men” (Shapiro, 2011). Her lifestyle and choices were classified as deviant, leaving her stigmatized. Her youth and heavy drug use raised questions about her ability to parent responsibly and were consequently used to convict her. The cold, hard facts of the case meant less to the Crown than the social status of the accused, as is often seen in cases of wrongful
On January 27, 1964, the court released her upon recommendation of two doctors appointed by the probate court to examine her. She filed law suits for false imprisonment, assault and battery and malpractice against Wolodzko, Anthony Smyk and Ardmore Acres. The court dismissed case on Smyk and Ardmore (115, 497, & 924, 1969) and (Swainson, n.d.).
"Know the Cases." Innocence Project. Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, n.d. Web. 1 Mar 2011. .
In Mindblind by Jennifer Roy we learn about a boy named Nathaniel Clark who struggles socializing with other people because of his Asperger's syndrome. Nathaniel lives with Aspergers and is genius! His parents are divorced. He has a stepmother and a half brother named Josh. He struggles communicating with other people and therefore he doesn’t have a numerous amount of friends. He also doesn’t know how to react to certain things. One example of how Nathaniel struggles with Asperger's is when he can’t socialize with other kids. In one of his files it says that he has problems communicating with other people so it is hard for him to make friends. Another example of how Nathaniel struggles with Asperger's is how he is not able to react like other
... Works Cited: Bardsley, Marilyn, Bellamy Patrick. The “Murder of JonBenet Ramsey.” Crime Library. Turner Entertainment Networks, (2010).