What is murder? What would it feel like to kill someone? Americans today would consider murdering your parents unethical. In the world today murder is generally held to be brutally atrocious. Many think you would not be able to commit such an unscrupulous crime. People also do not consider the other factors that are put into play to push people to commit these horrible crimes. But, what would it actually take to push someone to this point? This may be a question that you might be able to ask the Mendez brother’s. Joseph Lyle Mendez or Lyle, was born on January 10, 1968 (Lyle, 2016). Erik Mendez was born on November 27, 1970 (Erik, 2016). They grew up under a wealthy roof. Most people described Lyle as aloof and witty (Lyle, 2016). Erik on …show more content…
Diane came to stay with the Mendez brothers family for the summer holiday (Menendez, 2016). It was said that one night the brothers began to take off her clothes (Menendez, 2016). “They got me down to my bra,” said Diane, “but it stopped there” after she demanded an end to it (Menendez, 2016). Another night, she said she and Lyle Mendez were watching TV (Menendez, 2016). All of the sudden, “without any words spoken, Lyle claimed on top of me and began fondling my breast (Menendez, 2016). I froze,” she said, and “it stopped” (Menendez, …show more content…
They killed them in fear (Video, 2016). The brothers said that they believed they were going to die, due to the fact Lyle confronted his dad about the things he was doing to them (Video, 2016). Lyle told Jose that he would tell the police and everyone would know about it. Erik and Lyle told the court they were convinced their father would kill them to keep them quite (Video, 2016). Lyle then reported two days later their mother Kitty, said that he has ruined the family (Video, 2016). Lyle thought they were going head with their plan to kill them (Video, 2016). The boys then loaded their guns and went in the room and began firing (Video, 2016). When the shooting ended Erik said that he had heard a sound from his mom so they scrambled around to try and find a shell (Video, 2016). He then handed the shell the Lyle and he shot Kitty again this time in close range in the right cheek (Video, 2016). They then planned what they were going to say. Lyle then called the police and repeated historically “someone killed my parents” (Video, 2016). Four days after the killing of Jose and Kitty Menendez, Lyle Menendez bought a Rolex watch (Video, 2016). Years later they judge finally ruled they could play the tape of Dr. Oziel. The tape revealed they brothers admitting to killing their parents (Video, 2016). Dr. Oziel later stated neither of the brothers confessed to killing
On the 28th August 1993, Stephen and Helen Gilham became the victims of murder in their own home, located in Woronora, which they shared with their two sons, Christopher (25) and Jeffrey (23). At the hands of Jeffrey Gilham, Stephen, Helen and Christopher Gilham were murdered brutally by means of stabbing, although Jeffrey only admitted to the murder of his brother Christopher. Jeffrey maintained the series of events that it was in fact Christopher that murdered Stephen and Helen, and that he had discovered Christopher holding the murder weapon, a knife, and in a blind fit of rage stabbed Christopher a total of 17 times. Gilham’s uncle believed otherwise, stating that it was Jeffrey who committed the initial murder and not Christopher.
Carlos Deluna was born on March 15th 1962. Carlos DeLuna, who was arrested for murder, was developmentally disabled and had a low IQ. He dropped out of junior high and took a series of manual jobs. He had a history of petty nonviolent crime, including robbery and car theft. DeLuna also developed a taste for huffing spray paint. He was arrested multiple times holding a can of spray paint with his hands and mouth “smeared with the stuff.” DeLuna was convicted of murder and sentenced to death by the state of Texas. On the night of February 4th,1983 a 24 year old gas station attendant named Wanda Lopez was murdered.Reporters said the young woman had been stabbed multiple time with a buckle knife. At his 1983 trial, Carlos DeLuna told the jury that on the day of the murder he had ran into Hernandez, who he'd known for the previous five years. The two men, who both lived in the southern Texas town of Corpus Christi, stopped off at a bar. Hernandez went over to a gas station, the Shamrock, to buy something, and when he didn't return DeLuna went over to see what was going on.Mrs.Lopez was killed while on the phone with the police, having just called 911 reporting a suspicious person. Police found DeLuna hiding in a truck a few blocks away. DeLuna told the jury that he saw Hernandez inside the Shamrock wrestling with a woman behind the counter. DeLuna said he was afraid and started to run. He had his own police record for sexual assault. "I just kept running because I was scared, you know." When he heard the sirens of police cars screeching towards the gas station he panicked and hid under a pickup truck where, 40 minutes after the killing, he was arrested.(Pilkington) DeLuna always maintained that he didn't do it, but waited until his tr...
Investigators decided they would focus their efforts on finding evidence that would point to Echols as a suspect so they could arrest him. They offered a reward for anyone who knew any information about Echols and the murders. A young man Aaron Hutcheson and his mother Vicki came forward and said Aaron may have been a witness to the crime. Aaron said he had seen the suspects at a playhouse near the location of where the boys bodies were found. They took Aaron to the crime scene and they appeared to be no playhouse found there. Aaron later retracted his statement and said he had seen three men...
About a year later, Diane had to rush her youngest daughter to the emergency room. Speculations are being made that this is too much of a coincidence. The pastor at Diane’s church is suspicious and calls in an anonymous tip to the police that Diane is possibly involved. At this point, they bring her in and question her. After two hours in the interrogation room, Diane finally admits to poisoning them with antifreeze, saying, “I regret doing it.
July 15, 1999, was an ordinary night for Kristopher Lohrmeyer as he left work at the Colorado City Creamer, a popular ice cream parlor. Kristopher had no idea that his life was about to end. When Michael Brown, 17, Derrick Miller and Andrew (Andy) Medina, 15, approached Kristopher and demanded his money and his car keys. Before the boys knew it shots had been fired and Kristopher was dead. About an hour after the fatal shooting of Kristopher Lohrmeyer, all three men were in custody and telling their version of the night’s events. Michael and Derrick who had run away after the shooting confessed to police and named Andy as the shooter. According to the three boy’s testimony, they had only recently met and needed away to get some quick cash, so they developed a carjacking scheme and headed to Andy’s house to pick up 2 stolen handguns. The three boys were uneducated and had spent most of their time on the streets in search of drugs. The judge ruled that they would be held without bail and there was probable cause to charge them all with first-degree murder (Thrown Away, 2005).
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In this case, there were multiple motives take in into deliberation, however the most interesting and promising motives for the crime belonged to John Byers. Byer has a criminal past with a history of domestic violence against his ex-wife Sandra Slone stated in the book Devil’s Knot “Byers came to the her house around 6 A.M, demanding to take the children, he then “began to threaten her, telling her he wanted full custody of the kids, that he was going to kill her” (pg 20)”. She also says “her ex-husband had threatened to kill her or have someone else kill her several times in the past; that she sought a restraining order against him (pg 21).” Not only was he violent to her, but to his own children. She told Lax the private investigator for the defense team that “he used to beat her and the children but did so in a way which left to visible marks or bruises when dressed” (pg 205). It is not only his blood related children he bea...
Mariano Escobedo was a healthy man he was my Grandparents great great grandparent. He was a Mexican General from Mexico. He wanted to govern Mexico, he fought against dynasty and he won. Escobedo fought against the French Invasion in Mexico to govern Mexico. He became a great general who fought against Napoleon III (French.) In Mexico City airport and in Monterey his name is printed and also in some streets of difference parts of Mexico. Mexico had borrowed money from England, France and Spain. In 1861 representatives from this countries got together in London to find a way to get Mexico to pay this countries. Troops from this three countries went to Veracruz in 1862. They were welcomed from representative from Mexico. The general Juan Prim, from Spain accepted the way Mexico was going to pay little by little so as England. The representative from France is not accepted he wanted the money and ordered his troops to prepare to fight. The government of Benito Juarez organize the defense. He made in charge the general Ignazio Zaragoza to get to Puebla and fight with the French. They attacked each other in the " Fuertes de Loreto y Guadalupe. The troops of Zaragoza, helped from the Indians Zacapoaxtla. In 1862of Mat 5 they won against the French. The emperor from France, Luis Napoleon Bonaparte, wanted to extend his powers in America and in Asia. He dreamed to form a great empire. Mexico took advantage of that situation to peek an European emperor to govern Mexico and to stop the politic anarchy. Luis Napoleon made them recommend Fernando Maximiliano de Habsurgo, brother of the emperor Francisco Jose. Maximiliano accepted his embarkation to Mexico but with her wife, the princess Carlota Amalia de Belgica. Luis Napoleon send his army to wish napoleon luck. Austria and Belgica also send troops. The emperors arrived to Mexico at the end of 1864. In Veracruz, Puebla were great big welcomes. To confront the invaders, to the president Juarez formed a government itinerante, who traveled from the capital to the north border. From this places it continue the position of the millitar action from the armies from the North, West, command from
In this paper I will argue for the moral permissibility of the death penalty and I am fairly confident that when the case for capital punishment is made properly, its appeal to logic and morality is compelling. The practice of the death penalty is no longer as wide-spread as it used to be throughout the world; in fact, though the death penalty was nearly universal in past societies, only 71 countries world-wide still officially permit the death penalty (www.infoplease.com); the U.S. being among them. Since colonial times, executions have taken place in America, making them a part of its history and tradition. Given the pervasiveness of the death penalty in the past, why do so few countries use the death penalty, and why are there American states that no longer sanction its use? Is there a moral wrong involved in the taking of a criminal’s life? Of course the usual arguments will be brought up, but beyond the primary discourse most people do not go deeper than their “gut feeling” or personal convictions. When you hear about how a family was ruthlessly slaughtered by a psychopathic serial killer most minds instantly feel that this man should be punished, but to what extent? Would it be just to put this person to death?
brother, did the actually killing, but his mother in father aided in the coverup of the crime.
Even though murder is not legal, others can respect a justified murder. When Marcelo was a teenager “…Valdez accused [his] father of stealing cattle, [so he] gathered his sons… [and gave] them each a gun…[with] the first one to see…Valdez was to shoot him” (57). When Marcelo’s brother shot Valdez nobody really took a second thought about it, with the exception of the law. The town all knew that Valdez was not giving Marcelo’s father the respect he deserved and he had something to do something about it. The whole incident could have been avoided if Valdez would have just had a talk with Marcelo’s father rather than automatically accusing him of
I do not believe someone else killed the kids. He probably thinks as long as they have no bodies, then he won’t get the death penalty. Works Cited Davis, J., & Saenz, S. (2014, February 26). Documents: Luis Toledo met with Yessenia's dad after his arrest. Retrieved from News 13: http://www.mynews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2014/2/25/luis_toledo_document.html#timeline Fernandez, F. (2014, February 17).
Logan Gutierrez-Mock’s “F2MESTIZO” takes on the subject matter of intersectionality between race, gender, and class similarly to bell hooks’ theory on drag balls within the film, Paris is Burning. Because the ideas of passing between two races and defining gender identity are interdependent, we see characters enter and exit worlds of powerlessness and privilege, imitate white status to gain privilege, establish a two-fold world of us against them; this reveals much about the internalized racism that arises from the power complexities between races and genders.
If someone ever met Andrew Urdiales he would be the type that one would forget. He is not very outgoing and would keep to himself, during his childhood he did not have many friends and was an average student. Urdiales was a marine stationed in Southern California when he committed his first murder killing Robbin Brandley a twenty-three year old college student. From July 1988 to August 1996 Urdiales would go on to kill seven more women. Most serial killers kill each victim similar to all the other victims, Urdiales was different though his first murder he stabbed the victim to death while his last he shot in the head.
On August 20, 1989, 15 shotgun blasts echoed through the neighborhood of Beverly Hills. Approximately 90 minutes later, a frantic 911 call was made by Lyle Menendez shouting “they shot and killed my parents!” Upon arrival, the police discovered Erik and Lyle Menendez hysterical