Numerous murders have taken place throughout history and sadly, plenty of these murders go unsolved. One of these unsolved murders is the murders of Barbara and Patricia Grimes in 1957. There have been plenty of suspects, but nobody was ever convicted of the murders of the sisters. However, after reviewing possible suspects for the murders of the Grimes sisters, the true identity of the killer has been revealed as Max Fleig. Barbara and Patricia Grimes’ lives were tragically cut short when they were mysteriously murdered. On the night of December 28, 1956, Barbara and Patricia Grimes left their home to see the newly released Elvis Presley movie, “Love Me Tender” (Johnson). Tamara Shaffer explains when their mother Loretta Grimes knew something …show more content…
The first suspect is Edward “Bennie” Bedwell. Bedwell was a local dishwasher who was questioned at a local motel for three days (Sigona). What supported Bedwell as a suspect is that he actually confessed to the murder (Sigona). There were multiple problems with Bedwell’s confession, however. The first problem with his confession is, “Bedwell couldn’t read or write, so it would be nearly impossible for him to understand what he was confessing to” (Sigona). The second problem with his confession is “After a time, everyone realized Bedwell’s story didn’t add up. There were inconsistencies, including the fact that Bedwell said he was with the girls for a month before they died” (Sigona). Finally, the main problem with his confession is that the girls were dead within four hours of leaving home (Sigona). The other suspect in the case of the murder of Barbara and Patricia Grimes is Max Fleig. Max Fleig was a young man in his teens when the Grimes sisters were murdered (MacGowan). Max offered to take a lie detector test, which he failed (MacGowan). The reason Fleig was released even after failing the test is “The police began to focus on him as a prime suspect until they were told that it was illegal to polygraph someone underage. The police released him, many of the authorities thinking he was their man” (MacGowan). Another example that supports Fleig as a suspect is that he was imprisoned later in his life …show more content…
However, Fleig was not going to see a movie, he was looking to do something horrible and he did not care who the victim was. Once the film ended, Fleig sat in his car and scoped out who would be his easiest targets and he spotted Barbara and Patricia Grimes walking home by themselves. Fleig started his car and followed the girls until he saw the perfect opportunity to commit his crime. Now Max Fleig was a smart man, he did not want to kill the girls on the street and leave a noticeable cause of death. For this reason, he grabbed his gun and got out of the car and pointed it at the girls. He was not going to shoot them, he just did not want them to move. With a gun pointed at them, Barbara and Patricia Grimes listened to Fleig when he told them to get into his vehicle. Fleig did not beat them or anything he was actually fairly nice to them other than the fact he kidnapped them. Fleig knew what he was about to do and he was smart. He knew that there are poisons that are untraceable and the slightest chance of them being traced is gone if the bodies are hidden long enough. So Fleig took some arsenic, mixed it with sugar, and put it in the girls coffee when he offered them some. This is what killed Barbara and Patricia Grimes. They suffered from being poisoned for roughly 24 hours. Max Fleig knew of
On June 19th of 1990, Robert Baltovich’s girlfriend Elizabeth Bain went missing. Elizabeth told her family that she was going to check the tennis schedules at her school, the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus. She never returned, but her car was eventually recovered. It was found with blood on the backseat, with forensic tests showing that it was Elizabeth’s. With no clear evidence, the “solving” of the case was completely based on eyewitness testimonies, which eventually had Robert arrested for the murder of his girlfriend.
After reading ‘The Murder of Helen Jewett” it gave me insight on how crime in New York City was in the 1830’s and another view on how life for men and women differed. The book starts off talking about Dorcas Doyen famously known as Helen Jewett and how she was highly thought of but then the news comes out of nowhere with several stories about her past some twisted to make her seem as bad as a prostitute who has bounced around a few times could be seen. But her actual story was that she was born in 1814 in Temple, Maine to a regular working family. She lost both of her parents at a young age her mother died when she was at the early ages of her life and he father who was an alcoholic died shortly after her mother. She was put in a home, orphaned
On 1997 four men were convicted of the rape and murder of Michelle Basko. The four men were Joe Dick, Daniel Williams, Eric Wilson, and Derek Tice. Detective Robert Ford believed that the four U.S. navy men were all guilty of the crime. One of the victim’s friend claimed that Daniel Williams, was Michelle Basko’s murderer. Based on the information provided by Basko’s friend, Ford suspected that William was guilty. With that, the series of harsh interrogations led by detective Robert Ford began. Detective Ford began his interrogatories with a label that Williams is the suspect. The psychological abuse he used, led Williams to make a false confession. After closing the case, the DNA results did not match the one in the crime scene. Instead of releasing Williams, it was believed that Joe
The book Murder in the Bayou: Who Killed the Women Known as the Jeff Davis 8?, written by independent journalist and private investigator Ethan Brown, tells the horrific true story of the bayou town of Jennings, Louisiana located in the heart of the Jefferson Davis parish. During the four year duration between 2005 and 2009, the town of Jennings was on edge after the discovery of the bodies of eight murdered women were found in the filthy canals and swamps. The victims became known as the “Jeff Davis 8.” For years, local law enforcement suspected a serial killer, and solely investigated the murders based on that theory alone. The victims were murdered in varying manors, but when alive they all shared many commonalities and were connected to
The murder of JonBenet Ramsey has become one of the nation's notorious unsolved murder mysteries. A wide range of crime scene investigators and police officials have searched for clues for JonBenet's killer, but countless authorities have already considered this murder to be one of the most inexplicable cold-cases in America. As the world marks the twenty first year anniversary of the tragic event with still no standing suspects, an abundance of evidence proven through research points to one suspect in particular.
While Williams Heirens is known for many crimes, his most famous ones are the murders of 3 females. On June 5, 1945, 43-year-old Josephine Ross was found dead in her apartment. She was found with multiple stab wounds across her torso and neck. Her head was wrapped in one of her dresses (Blanco). On December 11, 1945, 31-year-old Frances Brown was found naked in the bathtub of her apartment. Her head was wrapped in her nightclothes, with a knife jammed into her neck, and a bullet in her head. Her neck was slit when she discovered a 17-year-old in her apartment robbing her. After he cut her throat, he shot her in the head to make sure that she was dead. He then proceeded to wash the blood off of her body and wrap her head in her pajamas. After he killed her, he took her lipstick and scrawled on the wall, “Catch me before I kill more I cannot control myself.” On January 7, 1946, 6-year-old Suzanne Degnan was reported missing from her home. Police later found dismembered parts of her body scattered throughout Chicago’s sewage drains. When sewage workers first found her head, they thought it ...
Two detectives were assigned to the case: Harry Hanson and Finis Brown. [2] When they and the police arrived at the crime scene, it was already swarming with people, gawkers and reporters. The entire situation was out of hand and crowded, everyone trampling all over any hopes for good evidence. [2] One thing they did report finding was a nearby cement block with watery blood on it, tire tracks and a heel print on the ground. There was dew under the body so they knew it had been set there just after 2 a.m. when temperatures dropped to 38 degrees.
Based on document B, it has been proven that the main gender group of accusers were women. Also, these documents say the main age group was from 16-20 years of age. Most people in this town got very little attention. I am confident that these young women were
we do not know who the murderer is and what motive they have to murder
An aspiring actress, young, beautiful, ready to enter the world of fame with open eyes and open hands; Elizabeth Short’s case has remained one of Hollywood’s most notorious unsolved cases in the US history. However, this case has been passed down from detectives all over searching for any clues or answers to help put the case to rest.
Sherene H. Razack’s article The Murder of Pamela George introduces the idea of colonial violence within a spatialized justice system by exploring the trial of a murder of a native woman who worked as a prostitute.
This morning October 8th 1965 at about 5:13 am the body of Bob Sheldon was found lying next to the park fountain he was seen to be in a pool of blood. His body had a single stab wound in his back which had pierced his heart, killing him instantly. Supposed eye witnesses say that a small boy who was a member of the "Greaser Gang" attacked and killed Bob and intended to kill the rest of them. Cherry Valance claims that she was walking with Johnny and Ponyboy after the movies when Bob approached them in his car and threatened the two them. Be on the lookout for the two boys with the description of one that has long light-brown hair, green eyes, and is about five feet tall and another has long jet-black hair, large black eyes, and is about four feet six inches. The first one is considered to be Ponyboy and the second one is considered to be Johnny. The two are now on the run they were last seen at a party with Dally. Investigators report that Dally says he has no idea where these two are but he thinks that they are going to Mexico. A woman was taking a walk through the park and discovered the bloody corpse she said “I was hesitant at first because I thought they were watching me, but I gained some courage and called 911” the friends that were their helping Bob bully the 2 said they were there during the homicide, but decided not to call the police because they were drunk and they were scared after seeing him dead. They said, the murderer was a 16 year old boy named Johnny Cade.
Mary Bell was a murderer, sadistic torturer of her victims, and a victim, more importantly she was a child. At the age of 10 Bell had killed two boys before the age of eleven. Growing up in the financially depressed town of Newcastle in England, in which Bell lived an impoverished life. Bell was born to her Betty Bell, a prostitute who suffered with mental illness and her father, presumed to be Billy Bell, a lifelong criminal who had a history of violence and was frequently unemployed. At the time of Mary’s birth, her parents were not married, and only married a few years after her birth.
On the morning of August 23, 1973, an escaped convict entered a busy bank in Stockholm, Sweden. The criminal pulled a gun out that he had hidden under his jacket and began to fire at the ceiling. These gunshots alerted everyone in the bank that their was a threat to their safety. A police officer was also alerted, by a silent alarm, and was wounded by the criminal while attempting to stop the robbery. The criminals intent was only to rob the bank but he found himself in a predicament and took four bank employees as hostages. These four hostages were strapped with dynamite and held in the bank’s vault. The criminal began negotiating with police. He asked for $700,000 in Swedish and foreign currency, a getaway car and the release of a
The Murders in the Rue Morgue begins with “propositions” (Poe 2) to help the reader follow the reading through the use of critical thinking like that of a chess or card player. The chess player must wait and contemplate each move of another player, while the card player is more prone to memory perception. Poe then introduces his acquaintance Dupin and expounds on his abilities. Then “Extraordinary Murders” (5) begins the sequence of the detective like story. The murders were written about in the local paper and giving no clue, leaving the mystery unanswered. The next day many testimonial references were given in the paper and their account of the murders exposed, still without any evidential clues. The evening paper reveal the police have no way of solving the crime, but arrest Le Bon simply because he was the last individual to see the murdered alive. Dupin’s “peculiar analytical ability” (3) begins to kick in and he begins to belittle the ability of the investigators and plans an “examination” (9). After receiving permission, Dupin and Poe (or the narrator as such) went to the Rue Morgue. They carefully scoured the neighborhood and the outdoor area before entering the house and room where the murders took place. Dupin was very intense and refrained from speaking for several hours contemplating on all he had seen. Then Dupin spoke and completely expounded his analysis of the murders, the means of entrance and exit, and the ability that it would take to complete what had been done. When he centered in on the agility, strength, ferocity and lack of motive (14), Dupin revealed the hair he found revealing the intruder and murderer. To draw the orangutan’s owner to him, Dupin posted an announcement in the news paper. ...