Winston Peacock's death was indeed a suicide. The evidence for this lies within the type of gun that was used, the placement of the gun and the wound, and the fact that the room's door was bolted shut from the inside. The first piece of evidence is the lone gun hanging diagonally on the wall to the left of the door. There are two hooks on either side of the gun, indicating that there was another identical gun that previously hung there so that the two guns decoratively crisscrossed. However, the gun missing from the wall is found in Peacock's hand, suggesting that he used his own gun to shoot himself in the head and commit suicide. Some may say that a murderer could have used Peacock's gun from the wall and used it to shoot him, but this is …show more content…
The final piece of evidence was the bolt on the door, which was locked from the inside. Because the windows of the house were intact when the police entered the room, the door was the only entrance and exit point to the house. If a room’s only entrance is a door, and it is locked, then it is not conceivable that anyone can enter that room. Yet if someone had managed to enter and kill Peacock before the door was locked, they could not have exited the room while locking the door behind them from the inside. In either scenario, it is impossible for anyone to have killed Peacock and then have exited the room. Some may argue that the murderer never actually left the room, but the police would definitely have found a person hiding inside the room, and the chances of the murderer slipping past the police are incredibly slim. In conclusion, Winston Peacock's death was undoubtedly a suicide because of three overwhelming pieces of evidence posed by the type of gun used to shoot Peacock, the placement of the gun and the location of the bullet wound, and the locked bolt on the
The Jonbenet Ramsey case has remained unsolved for twenty years now, and I realize, it might not ever be solved, but I do have a theory. My theory involves three different things, the build up, the murder and the cover-up. In the end, I do not think that there was an intruder that broke in the house, the evidence just doesn’t add up to that. I feel as if somebody in the family killed her, and the Ramseys covered it up. If you go even deeper, John Ramsey could have compensated John Mark Karr to take the blame, and to get some of all of the post-murder weight off of his chest. In order to find who killed J.B.R., we have to look into the Ramseys’ lives first. We know that the Ramseys had money, a lot of it. And the odd amount of money in the ransom note just doesn’t make any
In the Forensic case #356228, the skeletal remains found in January 2009 in a deer hunting area were those of a black male greater than the age of 45. The jury felt based upon the evidence provided that the skeletal remains found were that of Robert Rutherford and the accused, John O’Hara was guilty as charged. The incidence was speculated to have happened around four years ago, when the defendant and the victim were in a quarrel over the hunting area. Due to the fact that John O’Hara went to confession more in February 2009, indicated that he had a guilty conscience. John O’Hara was known for hunting in the area and based on the evidence provided the jury speculated that he shot Robert Rutherford possibly from his deer stand, resulting in his death.
To put it briefly, Winston Peacock killed himself with a gun that came from his own collection because he was very depressed and no one could get in or out of the house. There are details that brought the police to this conclusion such as the commodities & your stars newspapers that show he was depressed, the gun in his right hand, and windows & door locked from the inside. The police should inform any family Winston has and Mr. Peacock should be put to
Now we will look into more of what the evidence shows and look at more of an analysis. With no fingerprints, reliable eyewitnesses, or authentic leads, it is hard to frame someone for the murders of the axeman, but some evidence exists that led police to a particular suspect. According to the New Orleans article, “Jake woke his brother Andrew, then they went outside and around to Joseph’s kitchen where they saw a panel removed from the door. The brothers walked into Joseph’s bedroom, where they found him lying on his bed, with Catherine’s body draped over him.
Suicide is an unfortunate end of the life of a person who is undergoing great suffering. This person usually can no longer deal with his or her problems and falls back on what seems like the only way out: death. This is never the right choice as there are always other options. Although many options are drastic, they are better than death. In the novel Fifth Business, Leola falls into a deep depression as all the things that are keeping her together, in her not overly successful life seem to suddenly disappear. She finds out that her husband, which is very demanding of her and who she tries to impress constantly, was in fact cheating on her. On page 183, her husband’s deeds are revealed: “He was explicit about his sexual needs... there where two or three women in Montreal whom he visited.”. Leola could not take this news and because she saw no other way decided to resort to suicide as is described on page 188. “Leola had cut her wrists and laid herself down to die in high Roman fashion, in a warm bath... she had made a gory but not fatal job of it.”. Leola could have had many other wa...
Furman, a black, killed a householder while seeking to enter the home at night. Furman shot the deceased through a closed door. He was 26 years old and had finished the sixth grade in school. Pending trial, he was committed to the Georgia Central State Hospital for a psychiatric examination on his plea of insanity tendered by court appointed counsel. The superintendent reported that a unanimous staff diagnostic conference had concluded "that this patient should retain his present diagnosis of Mental Deficiency, Mild to Moderate, with Psychotic Episodes associated with Convulsive Disorder." The physicians agreed that "at present the patient is not psychotic, but he is not capable of cooperating with his counsel in the preparation of his defense"; and the staff believed "that he is in need of further psychiatric hospitalization and treatment."
The broken bird cage was a vital clue for whoever killed Mr. Wright. In the text, the author says how, “Mrs. Peters was examining the bird-cage. “Look at this door,” she said slowly. “It’s broke. Someone pulled apart the cage hinge.” Bird cages are pretty easy
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...
The Army CID sent a new, inexperienced investigator named William Ivory to investigate the scene. Ivory decided after looking around the house that MacDonald made up the story of the killers. He also persuaded everyone that he was the culprit. This meant that everyone in Ivory’s chain...
Another interesting fact came out in this case regarding Johnson. During the investigation it was found out that Johnson had nickname called murder man. He did not deny these allegations that was his name on the street. Officers ask Johnson if he ever enter the premises of where the murder occur. Johnson confirm that he had enter the location of where the murder occurred. There was also men clothing located at the property implying further that Johnson may have murder the victims Heather Camp and Nicole Sartell. Ardentric Johnson did admit as well during the integration with officers that he had seen the victim Heather Camp previously before she was murder. Evidence also points out that Johnson may have locked up the second victim Nicole Sartell for 46 hours and force her to smoke crack cocaine. Sartell body was found in the closet few days after the first victim, Heather Camp body had appeared. With this accumulating evidence against the accuser Ardentric Johnson, he has been charged with the two murders of Heather Camp and Nicole Sarell. END OF
Only Graham Stafford and Melissa Holland had keys to the boot of his car. There was enough evidence to support that Melissa had nothing to do with the deceased
When the first responder got to the scene he adimatately meet the 911 caller, who lead him to a car in an apartment parking lot. The car doors were closed and all of the windows were fogged. The police officer used his flashlight to see inside of the car before opening the door. He found a young African American woman who had been shot several times. The officers quickly called for backup, investigators and medical personnel. While awaiting for their arrival he secured the crime scene with caution tape, creating an initial perimeter setup as discussed in lecture two. Once everyone arrived he left it to them to search the car while he talked to the 911 caller, witnesses and others who had information on who had been present in the car. The investigators were able to collect physical evidence of bullets and cartage casings that were found outside the vehicle and inside the vehicle on the floorboard of the driver’s side. The team determined the bullets came from a 40 caliber. Other types of physical evidence that were found on the scene were the bloody clothing on the victim, the victim’s cell phone and fibers in the car from the driver’s side. personnel at the scene crime took several photographs, powered test for finger prints and did a blood spatter analysis. Stewart’s autopsy revealed that she had been shot at close range in the left hand once and in the
...lice or lawyers used their integrity. The police skirted around the law and use evidence that the witnesses said was not correct. They had a description of the suspect that did not match Bloodsworth but, they went after him as well. They also used eyewitness testimony that could have been contaminated.
Mrs. Wright, however, justified killing her husband due to Mr. Wright trapping her inside the house and how Mrs. Wright job is only to be domestic wife. When Mrs. Hale (farmer’s wife) and Mrs. Peters (sheriff’s wife) discovered a dead bird with her neck bruised all over, they start to put the pieces to the puzzle together and ...
It seems as though the intruder did not bring a weapon and instead used the vase right beside the resident. Since he did not bring a weapon, I do not think the intruder planned on killing anybody. Once the resident is killed, the intruder goes after what he came for: the hard drive. He looks through the papers on the desk with his bloody hands, and finally finds the hard drive case. He takes it out and puts it away. He then exits the same way he came, leaving the body. Since he did not think he would kill anybody, the murderer doesn’t think to move the body. So, he leaves the body and the rest of the evidence behind. Finally, since he did not want the blood to get in the hallways, the murderer broke through the window. The window was broken with a heavy object. It could be broken with a big rock or just an elbow. However, there is no rock left behind in the room, so we know he didn’t throw the rock into the room. We do not know if the room was on the ground floor, or if the resident had a second floor and slept up there. If it was just a one level home,it would be easy for the intruder to get a rock and hit it against the window, or to just use his