Black Dahlia Murders

Bennett another reporter took a different approach to covering the murder. He was looking at the murder and wondering how a young respectable man could be accused of such a heinous crime. He refused to believe that this crime could be committed by a man with such a promising life ahead of him.

The subject of the book “The Midnight Assassin” by Skip Hollandsworth is focused on uncovering the truth behind who is truly at fault for the murders of Mollie Smith and, several other victims. The murders occurred in Austin, Texas during the 19th century. Based on the first three chapters, three prominent characters have been introduced. All three characters are currently prime suspects. At the time, Austin was a prestigious town, equipped with the finest law enforcement made first hand by god himself, the Texas Rangers. When the young yellow skinned slave Mollie Smith was murdered, terror truly struck Austin. News reporters from all over Texas came to cover the story, thus creating conspiracies about each suspect. Evaluation of each suspect and their motives to perpetrate such a gruesome murder-Walter Spencer, a hardworking slave, who had never done any harm; Tom Chalmers, the brother of the land owner where the murder took place; Lastly, Dr. Ralph Steiner, the esteemed doctor.

Emmett Till was a fourteen year old boy who was beaten and murdered for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Emmett Till was visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi and went into a small store, but no one really knows what happened. His friends said that they heard him whistle at the white woman but he had a stutter as a young boy and his family taught him to whistle before he was about to say a hard word, some may say that he was whistling because of his stutter but others do not think that he was whistling because of his stutter. Emmett Till was then brutally beaten and murdered. They would not have been able to identify his body but he had a ring on that had given to him just a while before. Emmett Till may have been punished for a

The body of this paper will examine the case of Pamela Foddrill and compare what happened in that real criminal investigation to the theory of criminal investigation discussed in our course textbook, Criminal Investigation: The Art and the Science. I will first examine the forensics evidence and

The investigative details of the Pamela Foddrill case remained very similar to criminal theory in most ways, but not all. In Lyman’s Criminal Investigations, there are eight steps detailed

The 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short has remained one of Hollywood’s most notorious unsolved cases in Los Angeles history. The cold case has been passed down from detective to detective searching answers or any clues to help put the case to rest. The Black Dahlia was actually Elizabeth Short: a young, aspiring actress from a small town in Massachusetts.

On September 30, 1888 the murders of the third and fourth victims were committed. Elizabeth Stride was murder on Berners' Street. Her throat cut, but there was no mutilation. She was found around 1:00 am by Louis Diemschutz. Ten minutes later and three quarter of a mile away, Catherine Eddowes, the fourth victim, was found at Mitre Sqaure. Her throat had been cut, her face mutilated beyond recognition, her right ear lobe nearly severed, a portion of her nose had been cut off, her face slashed, and one kidney had been removed. On October 15th, George Lusk received a horrific package which included a letter addressed to him and a portion of a kidney. The letter stated it was half of the kidney he took from one of the women.

SAN DIEGO- John Osborne, a nurse at Sharp Hospital, died in a car crash on I-15 March 14, 2016, at UCSD Hospital.

Crime and glimpses into the heads of criminal masterminds has always been something that fascinates people. Although crime is a terrible thing, the complexity and intricacy of it is something that people love to hear about. One can turn on the news at any given time and almost certainly hear an account of some form of a crime within ten minutes. In the novel In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, an account to a perplexing crime is taken to a whole new level. The Clutter family was a charming family of four that lived in the little town of Holcomb, Kansas. They were brutally murdered with no apparent motive by Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, two men that had

After speaking with Mr. and Mrs. James, they informed us that they strongly believe their son has been murdered. We have begun to think that George was murdered by an unknown person, but with no remains

The Atlanta murders of 1979–1981, sometimes called the Atlanta Child Murders (although several of the purported victims were adults), were a series of murders committed in the American city of Atlanta, Georgia, from the middle of 1979 until May 1981. Over the two-year period, at least 28 African-American children, adolescents and adults were killed. Wayne Williams, an Atlanta native who was 23 years old at the time of the last murder, was arrested for and convicted of two of the adult murders, and sentenced to two consecutive life terms. Police subsequently have attributed a number of the child murders to Williams and closed the cases, although he has not been tried or convicted in any of those cases.

On January 1, 1923, In a very small black neighborhood called Rosewood. A rumor started that Fannie Taylor, a white female, had been sexually harassed by a black man in her house. She claimed that a black man had gotten into her house and assaulted her, but she had no obvious injuries other than her word that she was unconscious for a long time.

In The Red Parts: An Autobiography of a Trial, Maggie Nelson, the author tells the story about her aunt who was murdered in 1969 and how her family suffers through the reopening of the case. Maggie’s aunt, Jane Mixer, was found dead, shot in the back of the head twice, strangled, and then was left unceremoniously, abandoned in a cemetery. Because of the way Jane’s murder was presented, she was thought to be part of a killing spree. During the initial investigation, the police arrested a suspect in 1970 and he was sentenced to life in prison. In 2005 however, Maggie’s family got a call from a detective explaining that he might have a new lead in Jane’s murder and that the man that they originally arrested for it, was innocent after all. He had “every reason to believe [that] this case [was] moving swiftly towards a successful conclusion” (Nelson 1).

A murder of a black teen on November 23, 2012 at a local gas station in Florida was a tragic event, Michael Dunn a white middle-aged male opened fire on a car containing four unarmed black teens his reasoning for firing openly on the teens was he claimed he felt threatened because the teenagers choice of music which was rap and the loud volume they were playing it. He openly fired on these innocent teens because they were doing something he did not care for, along with him stereotyping the teens because they were black and had fatefully chosen to play rap music rather loudly he felt threatened by their freedom of speech to play whatever music they so choose without having to be in fear. As generations evolve cases such as these should not be a present thing in our country, these cases are less and less but still one case is too many cases this issue of racial profiling and harm because of it should be extinct in today’s society.

In 1947, a beautiful actress named Elizabeth Short was brutally murdered by someone but they still don’t know who killed her. Over the past years, police departments in all states are still in search for the killer of her. For the moment, her case is one of the most unsolved cases in the world.