Certain aspects in life are not heard of until one truly lives through another persons traumatic experiences. The podcast called “The Ugly Duckling Murderess” by a True Historian is a positive podcast considering it shows people the horrid experiences that some people have, demonstrating what can happen to them. This podcast is about a female named Sabella Nitti that murdered her husband named Frank Nitti. Frank was found dead by his 7-year-old daughter on July 29th, 1922; his body found in the catchbase around the river near his house. Evidence was found to tie Sabella into the murder after a massive investigation of the murder. Frank and his wife had two sons and a daughter. The one son named Charlie was a part of the crime; he helped drag …show more content…
This man had said to Frank’s son, Charlie, “Help me get rid of the body before I fix you too.” The man had blackmailed Charlie into being an accessory of the crime, despite the fact that his father was the victim. Circumstantial evidence was first found by a neighbour named Anna; tieing Sabella into the murder. The wife had said earlier, “Did Nitti ever tell you she wanted to get rid of her husband to marry Crudelli.” This was evidence that Sabella had full intentions of killing her husband to marry another man. Despite this, Sabella claimed that she was unaware of her husband's death; adding a charge of adultery to her sentence considering she cheated on her husband before knowing he was dead. After the court deemed her as part of this crime, they sentenced her to death by hanging. Later they revoked her charge of hanging and acquitted her from the trial she was on. A while later they decided to set another trial; however, no new evidence had turned up, meaning the trial could not take place. The old evidence was also all circumstantial evidence, which is not valid without some form of physical …show more content…
In the podcast, a female that is married to the male that was killed was the murderer. This shows the audience that even someone close to you is capable of being a murderer. In society anyone can be a killer despite gender, appearance, status or even the role they play within your life. In this podcast the female was not only a wife, but she was a mother of three children. She murdered her husband all to be with another man. The film accurately gave the audience fear considered the reality check it gave about what a person is capable of. It was found that, “The human brain is coded for compassion, for guilt, for a kind of empathic pain that causes the person inflicting harm to feel a degree of suffering that is in many ways as intense as what the victim is experiencing” (Kluger, 2015). This proves that many people that murder do so because of their own pain that they are suffering through. People should fear and not trust any other human considering even your own wife has the potential of committing murder. People that murder others are suffering through pain and feel the need to present others with the same kind of pain they are feeling. Badella, the wife of Frank, must have been feeling some sort of pain as she was in love with a different man, Peter; as a result she murdered her husband. Another fact is that every person has a brain that is wired with
This examination will look at the short story “Killings” by Andre Dubus and the main characters in the story. The story begins on a warm August day with the burial of Matt and Ruth Fowler’s youngest son Frank. Frank’s age: “twenty-one years, eight months, and four days” (Dubus 107). Attending the funeral were Matt, his wife Ruth, their adult children and spouses. Matt’s family is extremely distraught over the murder of their youngest son/brother, in their own way. There are implications of wanting to kill Richard Strout, the guy accused of being the murderer: “I should kill him” (107), as stated after the service. This comment is considered a fore-shadowing of what is to come in the thought progression of Matt and Ruth.
The night Lindbergh had killed Charlie she had seen something suspicious happening outside and had failed to report it to the rest of the household. Sharp had been close to Charlie his whole life and was feeling extreme guilt she had not stopped Lindbergh. Sharp suspected Lindbergh not of murdering the child but of pretending Charlie had been kidnaped as a joke, she suspected this because of his history of playing cold hearted jokes on the family. When she confronted him Lindbergh swore her to secrecy and threatened her that he would kill her family if she reported her suspicions. Sharp killed herself because of her guilt when the police came to question her. She never told anyone because she had depression before Charlie was kidnaped and believed Lindbergh really would kill her family if she told the police.
Susan Leigh Vaughan Smith was born September 26, 1971 in Union, South Carolina to Linda and Harry Vaughan. She was born the third child in the Vaughan family, with two older brothers. Linda Vaughan divorced Harry when Susan turned 7, and five weeks later Harry committed suicide at 37 (Montaldo). Within weeks of Linda and Harry’s divorce, Linda got remarried to Beverly (Bev) Russell, a local successful businessman. Linda and the children moved from their home into Bev’s, a larger house located in an exclusive subdivision in Union, South Carolina. Susan grew to be a well-liked teenager, and even became president of her Junior Civitan Club and Friendliest Female in her senior year (Montaldo). Everyone liked her, and she put on a great show at school. But after the last bell rang, she had to look forward to seeing Bev at home, something she feared above anything else. Bev had taken to molesting Susan when she turned sixteen, and it was not long afterward that she sought help with the local Department of Social Services (Wiki). The Department of Social services did little to help Susan, only making Bev attend a few counseling sessions (Wiki). When he returned home, he chastised Susan heavily for “airing their dirty laundry in public” and continued with the molestation (Montaldo). I believe thi...
Jack the Ripper, John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, the Boston Strangler, Jeffrey Dahmer. Despite the years of history that separate these names, they remain indelibly preserved within our collective societal consciousness because of the massively violent and calculated nature of their crimes. Serial killers, both men and women, represent social monstrosities of the most terrifying variety. They are human predators, cannibals in a figurative and, often, literal sense, and are therefore uniquely subversive to society's carefully constructed behavioral tenets. They frighten because they are human in form but without the social conscience that, for many, defines humanity. They capture the public eye because they terrify, but also because they elicit a sort of gruesome curiosity about the human potential for evil; as Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde alleges, wickedness lies within each heart, waiting only for the proper time and impetus to break free.
On November 29, 2004 Nancy Seaman, an award winning elementary school teacher, was put on trial for the murder of her husband Robert “Bob” Seaman. On May 10th of that year, Nancy hit her husband sixteen times with a hatchet and then preceded to stab him twenty-one times with a kitchen knife. She then cleaned herself up and then went to work as usual. After she returned from her job, Nancy bleached, painted, and scrubbed to clean the garage where she had killed her husband. Then, she wrapped up Bob’s body in a tarp and put it in the trunk of her car. The interesting point of the case is not finding out who killed Robert Seaman, but what the circumstances were for committing the crime.
It was 1875 it was another day at lidtke mill as Mr Barton and his dog mark went to work Mr Barton liked his job and his Co workers butt one person didn’t like him his name was Jeff and today was a perfect day for Jeff because it was a thunderstorm that they see every year only in this storm Mr Barton would die. As the day was ending mark and Mr Barton came to the edge of the mills roof both wearing their cotton coats. As Mr Barton was talking to mark . Mr Barton was obsessed with trying to bring back his dead wife who froze to death in the upper Iowa river a year ago by accidentally falling in the river only she was murdered and m Barton knew that she was murdered butt he didn’t know who it was but he also didn’t know that the killer was stagnating
Death and violence is not something experienced everyday, but is seen on a daily basis. Not always witnessed by someone near the accident, but it is usually watched on their computer or on their television. Violence seems to be one of the most common issues in many of today’s society. Acts of murder are feared and are avoided by anyone in their right mind. With this in mind, how can people watch murders on the TV screen, but will do anything at their power to avoid death. No one wants to die, but they find entertainment in other people’s deaths. Don Delillo’s Videotape reveals how humans have a tendency to watch terror and death due to a desire to numb one’s own fear of death and for personal entertainment.
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.
She was a great mother of five children and wife to a husband until after here fourth child, that lead to the attempt of suicide because she suffered from postpartum depression the doctor prescribed Haldol to help battle the depression. Andrea continued to live a near normal life until her psychiatrist stopped her prescription it then created a spiral of unfortunate events (Roche., 2002, p. 1-3). One day she was home alone watching the kids, she said “the devil told me to kill my kids or if not killed they would be tormented by demons,” she then begun to drown each child in the bathtub to “save” them from being tormented (Roche., 2002, p. 1-3). Yates then placed all five children in a bed side by side to hide the bodies because she knew that people would question the whereabouts of the children, but by doing this she truly thought she was saving her children (Roche., 2002, p. 1-3). Andrea Yates was emotionally unstable, and couldn’t differentiate imagination from reality. In the end, she knew exactly what she did would be seen unfit which makes her seem sane because she started to become depressed after she killed her children and was sentenced with life in prison (Roche., 2002, p.
Folklore is a collection of stories passed down from generation to generation that include Legends, Myths, and Fairy Tales. Legends have some historical facts but are mostly exaggerated. Myths has to do with religion, such as Gods, demi-gods, and supernatural creatures. Fairy Tales have fantastic elements and magic has good vs. evil.American folklore refers to the traditional beliefs, myths, tales, and practices of a people's found from America. American lore values such consist of freedom, equality democracy, independence, strength, family, and wealth. All of these values come together to create a strong nation.
The murder of JonBenet Ramsey was very shocking and caused a huge investigation that is yet unsolved. Family was one of the things that contributed to JonBenet’s murder. JonBenet Ramsey is a very special six-year-old girl with a successful family. She was a little pageant girl with blond curly hair and blue eyes; she was a very well known competitor since she had won many pageants (SV;SV) (Schneider). Her mother, Patsy Ramsey, was a former beauty queen; her father, John Ramsey, was a millionaire businessman (SV; SV) (Bardsley, and Bellamy).
In every story, she instigated the fighting and the death of her husband. In the beginning, the wife told the bandit that either he or the husband had to die because she could not live knowing she had been with two different men. In her story, she acted as if she passed out when the husband got murdered and she didn’t recall anything about what had happened. She grieves a lot in the movie for her husband but I believe this is to take the eyes off of her. I believe that she wanted her husband dead so that she could be with the bandit. The wife makes herself out to be a good person, as she goes on saying that she would rather die than living with knowing what she has
John and his roller skates were headed upstairs and the Mr.Pignati went right after him. When they were halfway up the stairs the Mr.Pignati started to have a heart attack. John didn’t notice because he was having too much fun. They called the ambulance and they took him to the hospital. A couple days later John decided to have a little party. They had Hors d’oeuvres at the party to serve. The party got out of hand and things happened. When Lorraine head a car door shut, she tried to tell John but he wasn’t paying attention because he was trying to get to norton. Norton had smashed most of the pigs and then that’s when the Mr.Pignati came in and everyone was out. He was so sad because his Avocation was collecting the pigs that him and his wife did their whole life until she died. When he came home it was a Predicament because they did it behind his back. When they threw the party they were Ingrate. The cops were called and John and Lorraine were brought to their houses. When Lorraine’s mother saw her she slapped her. The way Lorraine’s mother treats her is
Killers are the biggest threats to humans in society today because it could be the most original and kindest person ever who turns out to be the killer. The huge amount of monsters in our society are the killers and greedy people. A lot of people’s lives are at risk everyday just from being around these people and don't even know it. Nobody can trust a stranger,a friend, or even a family member. T.V. shows, and movies, show the killer as a psychotic person in a typical way. When it really could be anybody people come in contact with, they are just more experienced on how to deceive a common person.(The Making of a Monster Pg 2)
It can also be stated that sexual murderers “also have diverse criminal history with an average of 1.7 convictions” (Beauregard and Martineau, 2012) which can be found true with Peters, because we understand that he had previously been convicted for forcible confinement and pointing a firearm. Sandie and Charlene both White females, fit the statistical fact that 89. 7% of victims were female and 62.8% of them were also white (Beauregard and Martineau, 2012). Although Mr. Philips’ murder was non-sexual, we will continue to classify Peters as a sexual murderer because his sexual murders overpower his non-sexual murders therefore the following statistics fit under that of sexual murderers, but will be compared with the murder of Mr. Philips. Beauregard and Martineau (2012) state that 47.1% of sexual murderers beat their victims. This statistic fits with this murder, because Peters beat Mr. Philips to death. In 43.6% of the cases, the weapon used was found at the scene (Beauregard and Martineau, 2012), much like Peters in this situation because he found the metal bar used to bludgeon Mr. Philips, at the