Amy Latour's Murder Case Study

Simon Gittany was a male perpetrator. In almost 4 out of 5 intimate partner homicides the perpetrator was a male (Australian Institute of Criminology 1998).

In the case of Adam Lanza’s crime I do believe there is a theory that may help explain his action. One of the theories that caught my eye in the book was social process theory. This theory states, “The view that criminality is a function of people’s interactions with various organizations, institutions, and processes in society”(Siegel). In my opinion the social institutions Adams was in played a key role in his actions. His family and school definitely had a big impact on why he decided to go kill innocent individuals. First of all Adam was not mentally stable from a young age, which should have been addressed by the parents. Adam was diagnosed with Sensory processing and Asperger autism that lead him to be very quite and shy. He was also

The murder of Leanne Tiernan was a high-profile English child abduction and murder case involving a schoolgirl who was abducted less than one mile from her home on the 26th of November 2000 in Leeds, West Yorkshire and subsequently murdered (Crime Investigation, 2015). On the evening, the 16 year old was on her way home from a Christmas shopping trip with her best friend, Sarah Whitehouse, when she disappeared (Crime Investigation, 2015). The girls had taken a bus into the suburb of Bramley but then parted company near Whitehouse’s home leaving Tiernan to continue alone towards her home (Crime Investigation, 2015). As Leanne Tiernan made her way home alone along an unlit path through an area of wooded wasteland known as Houghley Gill that she frequently used, John Taylor had been

On July 12, 2005, Liana White, wife and mother, disappeared in northern Edmonton. At 5:45 am that morning a woman called to report an abandoned car, left open with personal effects, including Mrs. White’s licence, scattered around it (Edmonton Journal, 2007, para. 2, 4). The next day her husband, Michael White, made a public plea for his wife’s return as they continued searching for her whereabouts (Harding & Shaw, 2005, Timeline of Events, para. 3). By July 14, Michael had become a suspect and the police were all too happy when he decided to lead a search party of his own, in the hopes that, if Michael was in fact the reason for Mrs. White’s disappearance, he would lead them right to her (Edmonton Journal, 2007, A Turning Point., para. 14).

Lunsford Murder Case Jessica Lunsford was a nine year old girl who was abducted from her grandmother’s house, taken right from her own bedroom on February 24, 2005. There was little sign of a struggle in the child’s room, the only things that were missing were her stuffed animals that her father won for her from a county fair. The last time that the grandmother, Ruth Lunsford, last saw her granddaughter when she put her to bed the night before and hadn’t noticed anything. The abductor and murderer of Jessica Lunsford would eventually be found and he would lead the police to the place where he had buried the child.

Justine is accused and tried for the murder of William. In the novel, Justine is found with a locket that has a picture of Caroline in it. This locket was in Williams pocket before he was murdered. She shows remorse in front of the court, and claims that she was only roaming the village on the day of the murder. Justine is faced with making a decision to confess and go to prison to be executed. She does not want to confess because she knows she did not commit the murder but as she discusses it, Justine is not afraid of death, she believes to not prang on the past. The novel expresses how by confessing that she would not face excommunication from the church and atone for her supposed disgraceful conduct.

A Nun is “a member of a religious community of women, especially a cloistered one, living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience” (Dictionary, 2016). When someone takes any oath they are supposed to live by it. Helene Jegado did the absolute opposite. She was born in Brittany, France in 1803 and at a very young age, she lost her mother. From there she worked with her aunts as a servant for wealthy families. After her mother died her father wasn’t involved in her life. Jegado never had the luxury of having her parents so she was pretty much an orphan all her life but when she reached her thirties things took a turn that when she was first suspected of poisoning people during her time as a servant. It’s not clear on why Helene starting

The murder of charley chew was a difficult case, but I believe I have found the perpetrator; Ginger Snapzs. LeCore Ritche is clear, he did admit to having an argument with Mr. chew(as Marsh Mallow claimed) but a text message was discovered of Mr. chew and LeCore apologizing, for there arguing therefor leaving no motive for the murder. In the same way as LeCore Ritche, Marsh mallow is innocent because he was in the break room with LeCore Ritche from 11:15 to 11:35 when the crime was reported at 11:30, which means he was in the break room during the crime.as a result of marsh mallow and lecore ritch are not guilty that leaves only Ginger Snapz to be gulty of the crime.for one she was at the scene of the crime first and reported it to officials,

The murder of a little girl has haunted Boulder, Colorado. Many people have heard of the famous case of the murder of JonBenet Ramsey. However nobody knows what truly happened the night of her murder. There have been an abundance of conspiracies to what really happened the night of december 25th. 1996. Finding out there was a significant amount of evidence was great news to the DA of Boulder county, and also the many cops of Boulder; but the question still lingers nearly twenty years later who killed JonBenet Ramsey?

On November 16, 2015 the agency received a report stating Savannah went to school with a black eye, bruise on her jaw, and other marks and bruises. Savannah stated her father, Jason Chapman, hit her with the door 3 times. Savannah wrote a note about how to perform oral sex to a friend. The report states her father was coming to get the note from school and “he said he is going to beat me again.” Savannah later reported she was lying behind the door when Mr. Chapman opened the door. Savannah’s therapist, Amy Flowers, recommend for her parents to place her back in the hospital for suicidal ideations. Ms. Chapman reported Savannah has been diagnosed with depression and ADHD, which she feels is a misdiagnosis. Ms. Chapman thinks Savannah is bipolar.

The purpose of this paper is to discuss and analyze the practices conducted by law enforcement during the investigation of the murder of Ashley Smith. The following pages will discuss the crime scene investigation, the evidence collection, the investigative steps following the initial crime scene investigation, the interviews of witnesses and suspects, and other strategies performed by the acting case investigators. Constitutional challenges have surfaced regarding specific pieces of critical evidence and a section of this paper will analyze the admissibility of this evidence. Lastly this case’s law enforcement processes will be contrasted with textbook processes in an effort to determine the validity of the case’s outcome.

That was certainly a mystery for everyone reading. Was it suicide? Or was it murder? Then there’s the tape that played during dinner too. Everyone was accused of murdering at least one person. The shock was huge, as everyone looked around the room at the people they were eating with. Who would be willing to murder someone? But in this case, everyone is guilty.

This article is about the youngest convicted killers who were relased this week from prison. In 1999 at age 12 and 13, Curtis Fairchild and Catherine Jones murdered their father's fiance. Now more than 16 years later, they are set free. They had also planned to kill their father and a relative. The article also states that there was evidence of abuse on the children and that they claimed they were being sexually abused by the relative they had planned on killing. Even after evidence of abuse was discovered by investigators, none of it was used in their trial when being convicted. The article brings up points which show the implications of what is being read. "There was no trial, there was no testimony.There was no opportunity to present the

In response to the infidelity, Amy meticulously stages her own disappearance and creates a devious scheme to frame Nick of her murder. She goes to extreme lengths to and displays psychopathic behaviors throughout the film to assure that her “lazy, lying, cheating, oblivious husband will go to prison” for her murder and be put on death row. Amy inflicts intense emotional, mental and physical pain on Nick, and sustained self-inflicted

The homicide featured in the case of Lisa Harnum and Simon Gittany is intimate-partner homicide (IPH). According to the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC), IPH are those involving “spouses, ex-spouses, those in current or former de facto relationships, boyfriends, girlfriends, or partners of same-sex relationships”, which occur in the privacy of the home where external social control is extremely restricted (Carcach & James, 1998). On the morning of the 30th July 2011, Harnum was unloaded from the balcony of the couple’s Sydney apartment located in Hyde Park, Sydney, by her partner Simon Gittany (R v. Gittany, 2013). 69 seconds prior to the homicide, security footage captured the moment Gittany grabbed Harnum by the face as she attempted