Twenty-year-veteran Prosecuting Attorney, Ray Gricar, suddenly disappeared on April 15, 2005, without a trace (“RAY FRANK GRICAR”). Currently presumed dead, Mr.Gricar, left behind his daughter and girlfriend. Many wonder whether his disappearance was a murder, kidnapping, suicide, or his own want to escape. After being gone for over ten years, combined with the limited involvement of The State Department and lack of viable evidence, we may never know what happened to Ray Gricar.
Despite the local police department’s efforts to pursue every lead possible, the case went cold. While the local police were in charge of Ray’s disappearance, they also had other cases to investigate as well (Ganim). After nine years, The State Department finally took
Authors Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld founded the innocence project at a law school in New York City, which has assisted in the exoneration of an astonishing number of innocent individuals. As legal aid lawyers, they blithely engaged in conflicts that implicated
On June 12th, 1994, Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman’s bodies were found Nicole’s condominium; the victims had been stabbed to death. The identity of the murderer was unknown up until O.J was suspected to be a suspect. When accused, he was in another state, and was forced to fly back. (Aaseng 1996)
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.
Amber Hagerman was a nine year old child who was born on November 25, 1986. She loved to draw, her favorite animal was horses and loved to ride her bicycle daily with her younger brother Ricky. Sadly, one of her favorite hobbies would turn into a horrible memory for her family. She was abducted on January 13th 1998 and murdered on January 17th 1998. She is survived by her parents Donna Norris and Richard Hagerman, her grandparents Jimmie and Glenda Whitson and her younger brother Richard “Ricky” Hagerman. She’s the little girl who died a horrendous unexpected death, but not in vain. Because of her death hundreds of children have been saved. Amber Hagerman’s case will always be an inspiration now and forever.
As Darrow and Ruby returned to the U.S., they were greeted with the news of the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr. This would have been a case a few years before would have been offered to Clarence Darrow. But it wasn’t; his time had passed.
A) The condemnation of James Earl Ray has been a cover up has deceived the public for over 30 years, James Earl Ray is an innocent man who was caught in the web of a government conspiracy.
...ta Bank, the disappeared, and the relatives of the disappeared are still being found and identified presently.
crime and how the events unfolded. The only reason why there was never a trail was due
The second victim was David Spears, age forty-three. On June 1, 1990 Spears’s body was found on the side of a highway in Citrus County, Florida. He was found with no clothes on except a baseball cap and had died of six bullet wounds to the torso. The third victim was Charles Carskaddon, age forty. His body was found on June 6, 1990 in Pasco County, Florida. He was shot several times in the chest which lead to his death. The fourth victim was Troy Burress, age fifty. He was reported missing on July 31, 1990 and on August 4, 1990 police officers found his body in a wooded area along a road in Marion County, Florida. Cause of death was being shot twice. The fifth victim was Charles ‘Dick’ Humphreys, age fifty-six. His car was found in Suwannee
In November of 1980 A young girl, 12 years old, named Christine Weller went missing. She would later prove to be one of Olson's first murder victims. Christine was abducted from her home in Surrey, BC. Her mutilated body ...
Mueller, John. "Dead and deader - Los Angeles Times." Los Angeles Times 20 Jan 2008, n. pag. Print.
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.
On June 9th 1959 near Clinton, Ontario 14-year-old Steven Truscott gave his classmate 12-year-old Lynne Harper a ride on his bike from their school down to Highway 8 (Ontario Justice Education Network Timeline of Events for the Steven Truscott Case). This sole event would be the one to change his life forever. The next day Lynne’s body was discovered near Lawson’s bush (close to the area in which he dropped her off) where she had been strangled, sexually assaulted and subsequently killed. That day Constable Hobbs conducted lengthy seven-hour interview on young Steven Truscott in which he asked him a number
One October night one of the liberal Judges, A. Rosenberg, is shot in the head while sleeping in his Georgetown home. Two hours later G. Jensen, the Court's youngest and most conservative judge, is strangled, possibly by the same assassin. America is in shock, the F.B.I. has no clues.
The mystery of whoever killed the martyr has remained unsolved for almost three decades. This scenario has proven that the justice system here in the Philippines has not improved ever since. One can see in newspapers, tabloids, and even in social media countless cases of unsolved