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Community crime prevention strategies
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She was just a teenager, when she committed a murder, and now sentenced to life. Was it because of her mental illness, or was she totally in her right mind and is just a psychopath? Cheyenne Fink murdered an 80 year old man on December 3, 2012 in Mena Arkansas while out on a walk, also leaving him stabbed 30 times. Fink should be held accountable for her actions, and go to jail. There are many reasons why Fink should go to jail, and hiding the evidence on purpose is one of them. First of all, Fink knew to hide the murder weapon and to go home and immediately wash her bloody clothes. After stabbing and murdering an innocent 80 year old man, she knew in her right mind that in order to not be caught, she had to hide the evidence. Fink knew who
Sean didn’t commit his first murder until 1994. His first victim was an 81 year old woman, Ann Bryan in March 1994. Ann was living at St. James Place which was an assisted-living facility located across the street from the convenience store where Gillis worked. As she often would do, Ann left the door to her apartment unlocked before retiring to bed so that she did not have to get up to let the nurse in the next morning. The warrant says Gillis told detectives he entered Ann Bryan's home at 3a.m. to rape the 81 year old, but she started screaming when he touched her. Gillis then told detectives he cut her throat to stop her screaming and began stabbing her a total of 47 times. The warrant says Gillis gave them details about this elderly woman's death only the killer could know. He seemed fixated on stabbing at her face, genitals and breasts.
In a study conducted by Hickey, he discovered that out of thirty-four female serial killers, almost one in two had a male accomplice committing murders with them (Holmes et al., 1991). He also revealed that 97% were white and the average age the women started committing murders was thirty-three (Holmes et al., 1991). Women serial killers differ from men in that most women kill for material gain, such as money or insurance benefits, and they usually commit murder with pills or poison. Stephen Holmes, Ronald Holmes, and Eric Hickey developed a typology for female serial killers similar to the one developed by Holmes and Holmes, discussed earlier. They begin with visionary serial killers, who are compelled by some force, such as God, or spirits, to commit murders. The second type is the comfort killer, who usually kills acquaintances and does so for a material gain, money or real estate (Holmes et al., 1991). The third category is hedonistic female serial killers, which is similar to the earlier typology in that the offender connects murder with sexual gratification. This is the least represented category for female offenders, but evidence for this type of killer can be seen in the case of Carol Bundy (Holmes et al., 1991). Bundy allegedly helped her husband kidnap, murder, and decapitate the
Raymond Reid: her boyfriend. Died in 1986, the doctors thought he has Guillain-Barré syndrome. His body exhumed in 1989, they found he has high level of arsenic. In 1990, Blanche convicted and sentenced to death for the first-degree murder of Reid.
In the JonBenet Ramsey case didn’t know she had blunt force injury until her autopsy shows where she suffered a linear fracture to the right skull leaving a long crack in her skull. She even suffered from being strangle to death by rope being tied around her throat and being pulled really tight around her neck making it hard for her to breath her neck had red blood stains from like the inside of the skin reflecting on the outside also showing nail scratch marks on her neck describing her trying to get the rope from around her neck. Lindsay armstrong was torn to pieces by the defence lawyer and made to hold up a g-string underwear she wore during the time of the attack. She said it was like being raped all over again the 14 year old accuser
Saito was originally sentenced to life in the mental facility after her stabbed and shot an innocent woman. Allegedly, he randomly targeted her while she was out shopping. Her lifeless body was discovered in her vehicle and evidence leading to Saito was discovered. Instead of receiving life in prison for the crime, he plead guilty by reason of insanity and was sentenced to life in the psychiatric hospital. Though he has made several attempts over the years to appeal his sentence, authorities believe that he is still highly disturbed and dangerous.
Justice is something that we all as human being want to see fulfill, especially when we are the one that need it for us or our love ones. The family members of those who were killed by Susan Atkins and her companion will agree with it. The damage cause to their dears and the endless pain and suffering in effect from their death will support the decision take by the parole board in September 2, 2009 in the denial of a compassionate release due to Atkins’ health.
Jonathan Nobles was convicted for killing 2 girls. On the September, 13th 1986 he stabbed to death two girls and tried to kill one of their boyfriends by stabbing him 19 times. Luckily he survived but unfortunately he lost his eye. At that time he was a big time drug addict. 12 years later, 1998 he was executed by lethal injection. Now the question is, was he rehabilitated? Throughout the many years a lot of people asked them self that question. After reading the story “A Death in Texas” I came to the conclusion that he was rehabilitated.
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.
How would you feel if your child was raped by someone that later had no charges filed
A University of San Diego professor whose daughter’s disappearance become a recurring factor in his life, has finally gotten the peace he deserves. After approximately five years of three unsolved murders, assailant David Allen Lucas, was convicted and sentenced to death. Lucas was a carpet cleaner from Spring Valley, CA and was 23 when he first committed a murder, but this was not his first time being convicted. In 1973, at the age of 18 Lucas was incarcerated after being convicted of raping a 21-year-old maid who had worked for a family friend.
When she was falsely accused in her case, the FBI thought she was the one who started it all. The FBI didn’t look at all of the evidence that was found at the crime or what she had said. They falsely accused her of the crime because they thought she was the one that robbed the bank and did extortion. There were gaps in her statement, and she couldn’t think straight. She was saying random words because she was so terrified of what happened to her. The SLA brainwashed her, and she didn’t know anything after they were done with her. She didn’t even know what day it was, so she does not know what happened in her case.
Myra Hindley is still petitioning for her release On October the seventh, 1998 Hindley concluded a hearing at the Court of Appeal trying to overrule her "whole-life tariff." In her new attempt at overturning her life sentence and win the right to a parole hearing, Hindley claimed that she can prove that she took part in the Moors murders only because Brady abused her, and threatened to kill her mother, grandmother and younger sister if she did not comply with his wishes.
In my conclusion, I think the boyfriend should not get 25 years to life in prison, but a death penalty, I can understand that a person killing another person that is also an adult like yourself, but this is a child, a three years old little girl that knows nothing, unable to live her full life. The boyfriend did not show any remorse, the mother cried, but also considering of her neglecting her own daughter too. Krueger and the boyfriend went too far for what they had committed, there shouldn’t be any pity, so in conclusion by what the mother and boyfriend had done, to have a voluntary manslaughter, neglect homicide, and without shown any remorse for this crime, death penalty.
While reading the case about Mr.Hossack 's murder i saw the wife, Mrs.Hossack, as innocent at first. The children all claimed that the two did not argue for over a year, so why would she kill him now verses a year ago? When the youngest child, Ivan Hossack, came to the stand and "told his story in a straight, unhesitating manner" it made it easier for me to believe in Mrs. Hossack 's innocence. The child even said that he saw his mother aiding his father when he called out for help. If she had been the one to swing the axe, why would she help him and risk getting in trouble? Most importantly, if he was conscious and talking, why wouldn 't he say who to murderer was? He could have easily identified his wife in the dark after being married for over twenty years, and yet he didn 't identify who had tried to kill him. Dr. Dean first stated that the axe did not hit the speech portion of the brain, so he could have been conscious and yelling out for his wife. Dean later stated that the fatal blow from the axe would have left Mr.Hossack unconscious. The murder weapon had blood on in and apparent hairs stuck to one side; "Prof. John L. Tilton of Simpson college... was unable to say definitely that the hair had been
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