Story of Andrea Yates Composition I: Effective Writing for Criminal Justice Majors Story of Andrea Yates On June 20, 2001 a woman by the name of Andrea Yates, stunned the whole country with one of the most bizarre acts of violence that a parents could ever do to their own children. She called her husband at work and told him “I did it” confused by what was going on, he rush home only to find his house filled with officers of the law. The husband asked, “What is going on?”, and only to found out that his wife had drowned all five of their children. Andrea Yates was a will educated women by all means, “she was the class valedictorian, captain of the swim team and an officer in the National Honor Society. She completed a two-year pre-nursing program at the University of Houston and then graduated in 1986 from the University Of Texas School Of Nursing in Houston. She worked as a registered nurse at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center from 1986 until 1994.” (Montaldo, n/a) Andrea met her husband, Rusty Yates at the apartment complex that she lived in. Andrea and Rusty after little time to together decided to get married in April of 1993. They seemed to be the perfect couple and started to have a family saying that, “they planned on having as many children as nature provided.” (Montaldo, n/a) In total the Yates had five wonderful children together, five boys and one girl ranging in ages from seven years old to seven months old. Andrea Yates was a woman that did the unthinkable, killed all five of her children. She suffered from a state of depression, using religion as an excuse and had many signs before this happened. Unit 9: Final Project 3 “Andrea began to have violent visions: she saw someone being st... ... middle of paper ... ...w.atheists.org/flash.line/ayates1.htm Farflex. (2008, n/a n/a). The Free Dictionary. Retrieved June 16, 2008, from The Free Dictionary: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/austerity Montaldo, C. (n/a, n/a n/a). Profile of Andrea Yates. Retrieved june 15, 2008, from About.Com: Crime/Punshiment: http://crime.about.com/od/current/p/andreayates.htm Ramsland, K. (2008, n/a n/a). The Bottom Falls Out. Retrieved june 15, 2008, from www.crimelibrary.com: http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/andrea_yates/index.html Sweetingham, L. (2006, 26 June). Defense: Andrea Yates killed kids to save them. Retrieved June 16, 2008, from ReligionNewsBlog.com: http://www.religionnewsblog.com/15056 WARREN, A. (2001, June 28). Andrea Yates' siblings: Depression runs in family. Retrieved June 15, 2008, from HoustonChronicle.Com : http://www.fact.on.ca/news/news0106/hh010628.htm
Billy Joel once sang, “Only the good die young”. In life, it is true, the young and innocent seem to touch more lives around us than anyone else. In the Casey Anthony trial, Anthony was a suspect in the murder of her daughter Caylee. Caylee’s life shouldn’t be counted in years, it should be counted by how many lives she affected, the love she has gained, and the support the country has given her to find out what really happened. In the play, Twelve Angry Men, a boy killed his father; however, both cases were challenged by the obvious and the abstruse evidence. Large cities towards the east coast, in 1982, Twelve Angry Men, and 2008, Casey Anthony Trial, affiliated with two major trials able to modify the lives of the living and the dead. For that reason, during the Casey Anthony case, jurors were conflicted throughout the trial.
L.E. Orr “Fitting Justice for Susan Smith?” http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1995-08-02/news/9508020382_1_susan-smith-rough-life-carjacking Orlando Sentinel , August 2, 1995. Web. February 9,2012
When horrific crimes occur in large cities, many of them can be chalked up to gang violence or to the larger population of that specific city. But when horrific crimes happen in small cities like Lincoln, Nebraska, people begin to ask questions like who did this and why. In 1958, a nineteen year old man named Charles Starkweather put the entire state of Nebraska and possibly the entire nation in a state of terror. With his murder spree taking only three days, Starkweather had collected a body count of ten bodies, including two teenagers and a young child. Understanding Starkweather’s past and state of mind begins to answer the second question of why.
WOIO. (2003). Developments in the case of accused serial killer Derrick Todd Lee. Retrieved February 20, 2012, from http://www.woio.com/story/1847852/developments-in-the-cases-of-accused-serial-killer-derrick-todd-lee?clienttype=printable
The eighth law that can cause a crime to be viewed as a capital crime is “the person murders an individual under six years of age.” (Pilgrim 06) Prolonged media attention reflecting cases on capital crimes committed by women, causes cases to have extreme bias, and causes the judge or jury to neglect the actual case. This is mirrored by the circumstances of the case involving the 2008 disappearance and murder of Caylee Anthony the suspected killer which was the child’s own mother, Casey Marie Anthony. Casey Anthony, the mother of then three-year old daughter Caylee Anthony, was believed to have murdered her daughter in order to avoid parental responsibilities. Although an overwhelming amount of evidence backing up claims and beliefs that Casey Anthony was in fact the perpetrator of the murder, including forensic data connecting decomposition remains of the child to Anthony’s car during the time of the child’s disappearance, and FBI attained data comprising of Google search terms including methods involved in the murder of Caylee from a comp...
Yates and Loughner are two very different people but ended up doing very brutal murders in this two page essay I will talk about how Yates and Loughner are similar and different. First I will talk about how they are similar when they were growing up and raised as children.There isn't much to say about how they were similar as kids they were raised very different. Yates was a amazing high school student who never missed a day and graduated first of her class while Loughner was a kid who was always getting in trouble and looking back on it now he showed all the signs that he was going to do something bad when he grow up, they were very different in this sense. The reason they both commuted these brutal acts is they were both wronged in a sense
Scott Peterson was an educated man from California Polytechnic State University where he graduated with a B.A. in Agricultural Business. He was married to his wife Laci Peterson who was also pregnant with their unborn son. In December of 2002 Laci Peterson went missing in the Modesto, California area where she shared a home with Scott. Once the investigation of Scott’s missing wife started authorities began to suspect Scott as a suspect in her disappearance. In April of 2003 a fetus and a female torso that was missing hands, feet, and a head were found on the shoreline of San Francisco Bay. The San Francisco Bay area was where Scott was boating the day of Laci’s disappearance. The body was later identified as Laci Peterson and the fetus as Laci and Scott’s unborn son. Scott was also arrested in the month of April shortly after the discovery of Laci and their son’s body and was later sentenced to the death penalty. Over the course of this paper I will cover the whole event of the disappearance of Laci Peterson, relating it to a sociological theory, the impact the event had on our society and how the media had influence over this national event.
I wanted to look at the investigative and criminal procedures following the arrest of an alleged criminal and the powerful effects via testimonies and evidence (or lack thereof) it can have on a case.There is an importance of the courts in regards to crime that can’t be over looked. The primary function of the criminal justice system is to uphold the established laws, which define what we understand as deviant in this society.
Ward, S. F. (2010). Family ties: the private and public lives of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. ABA Journal, 36.
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The sympathy of the government for mothers such as Khaila, trying to recover their parental rights has worn thin. Child abandonment is a serious offense and the children that suffer from such neglect face many psychological problems; if they are ever able to survive their circumstances. The abandonment and neglect of a child can result in serious criminal charges. One striking example is the case of seven month old Daniel Scott (Should We Take Away Their Kids?). Baby Daniel had been left for hours unattended and died of in a pool of his own blood. His mother, a crack addict left him in the care of his father to go on a six day crack binge. His father in turn, left him in his crib leaving the door of their Bronx tenement unlocked for any danger to afflict his unprotected son (Should We Take Away Their Kids?). The parents were later charged with manslaughter by negligence.
The Andrea Yates murder trial was one of the most highly publicized cases of 2001. Perplexing and complicated, it appealed to the public audience for various reasons. A mother methodically, drowns her five children in the family bathtub after her husband leaves for work. Was this an act of a cold calculating killer, or was this the act of a woman who lost touch with reality. Is this a case of medical neglect, and psychological dysfunctions, or is this a battle of ethics and deviant behavior exploiting medical and legal loop holes?
On August 20th, 1989 Lyle and Erik Menendez killed their parents inside their Beverly Hills home with fifteen shot gun blasts after years of alleged “sexual, psychological, and corporal abuse” (Berns 25). According to the author of “Murder as Therapy”, “The defense has done a marvelous job of assisting the brothers in playing up their victim roles” (Goldman 1). Because there was so much evidence piled up against the brothers, the defense team was forced to play to the jurors’ emotions if they wanted a chance at an acquittal. Prosecutor Pamela Bozanich was forced to concede that “Jose and Kitty obviously had terrific flaws-most people do in the course of reminding jurors that the case was about murder, not child abuse” (Adler 103). Bozanich “cast the details of abuse as cool, calculated lies” (Smolowe 48)...
In August of 2011, Anthony Edward Sowell, also known as “The Cleveland Strangler,” was sentenced to death in the State of Ohio. Sowell’s killings began in 2007 and continued until his arrest in 2009. Sowell’s conviction include eleven counts of aggravated murder, eleven counts of abuse of corpse, three counts of attempted murder, four counts of rape, one count of attempted rape, two counts of kidnapping, and eleven counts of tampering with evidence. Sowell is currently being held at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution located in Chillicothe, Ohio. Prior to these murders, Sowell already had a criminal history of sex crimes and in 2008, one year after Sowell had begun his killing spree, law enforcement officials missed an opportunity to arrest him and stop the killings. All of Sowell’s victims were women ranging in age from twenty-five to fifty-three and there is currently an ongoing civil suit filed by victim’s families.
Pollock, J. M. (2012). Crime & justice in America: An introduction to criminal justice (2nd ed.). Waltham, MA, USA: Anderson Publishing (Elsevier).