Case Study Of Filicide

The case I chose to write on is based on a DVD that we watched in class called ‘Beaten by a hair’. In this case, a woman was reported missing after she went to work and never returned home. After the police discovered a bloody pillow case in the woods, near her house, they linked it to the missing pillow case in the woman’s room, and then realized that they had a murder case on their hands. A mystery in the case was that one of the local neighbors had mentioned seeing the woman leave through the front door of her house but the evidence says different, so investigators had to find out who left the house that morning. I am interested in this case because it was very intriguing how the forensic officers put all the pieces

Forensic science has come a long way from where it was less than 100 years ago. It has only been relatively recently that the advancement of technology we use, has occurred. The Body Farm, an institute in Knoxville, Tennessee, is a place where dead corpses are left to rot and then studied on how the body decays in different circumstances. Death’s Acre: Inside the Legendary Body Farm tells about the farm from Dr. Bill Bass’ point of view, from the establishment of the farm, to the impact in the world of forensic science the farm has caused. David Pitt and Alynda Wheat offers their insight into the book in their reviews. The Body Farm has been a monumental stepping stone to the advancement of modern day forensic sciences. Dr. Bill Bass, is making

This caught my attention right away and hooked me in. Along with being a topic I was quite interested in (reference to last nonfiction book report), the first two sentences got me wondering. What could be told from a murdered person’s body? I already had a lot of background information from research and watching shows on mystery and homicide but this question led to a million answers. Some answers were cause of death, manner of death. time of death, weapon used, etc, all of which were related because this was sparked from the thought of a dead person and my ideas. From this, I read on to determine what could be told from an expert’s point of view.

It was the midst of day, June 30, 20--; an ill-pleasuring mess had been proposed to the police of Detroit. The corpse of an old, clumsy, joke of a gentlemen, found covered in newspaper dumped into a dumpster. The corpse was dismantled, mangled, and at the same time of many other killings. The detective, Ms. Liu, immediately concluded the cause of death and the murder weapon.

Forensic anthropologist examine skeletal remains for elements of a skeleton that can give clues to the person it belongs to. The Kennewick man’s skeleton was found in surprisingly good condition meaning the damage to the skeleton was done in his life, not due to deterioration. The skeleton showed a projectile point lodged in his hip, five broken ribs that did not properly heal, two small dents in his skull, and a bum shoulder. These wounds show an insight to the lifestyle

This is an attempt to unravel the tangle by an objective and empirical examination of information from crime scene and post mortem examination of the victims. Pre-digested information such as speculative newspaper reports, and statements from witnesses other than those called in a professional capacity have been avoided since theirs is largely subjective testimony that confounds more than it informs.

Early the next morning of December 8th, the lifeless body of Debbie Carter was found strangled in her small apartment. The murder of Debbie Carter flipped this small, rural, bible-belt, town on its head. People were outraged, overwhelmed, and stunned that such a thing could happen in this town to a young, beautiful girl whom everyone had known. This gruesome act put enormous pressure on local law enforcement to find the atrocious criminal. Finger prints, hair, and blood spatter was carefully collected from the scene.

This essay will critically consider the differences between acts of male and female filicide and the difference in the response of the Criminal Justice System towards each gender. Filicide is the heinous act of killings one’s son or daughter and there are several different types of filicide as classified by Ania Wilczynski (1997) through analysing the motives within each case. These categories included; retaliation killings such as those motivated by jealousy of victim or rejection of the offender by the victim, altruistic killings or killings due the fact the child was unwanted, psychosis within the parent, killings secondary to sexual abuse or death caused to victim due to acts of discipline whether there was an intent to kill or not.

A parent who has killed his or her child could be considered not mentally ill due to overwhelming bodies of research and evidence that separate parents who commit infanticide and filicide versus those who commit neonaticide. This controversy is extremely relevant to American society given that starting in the late 1970s, 61% of children under the age of five years old were killed by their parents, with a breakdown of 30% that were killed by their mothers and 31% that were killed by their fathers. This statistic placed homicide as the third leading cause of death of children in the United States, positioning America at the top of the list of child homicide rates out of all other developed nations. Another layer of this controversy is that little is known about the factors that could aid in predicting filicide and neonaticide, showing that there are gaps in the awareness of connections between these crimes and histories of mental health (Friedman, Horwitz, and Resnick). For one to come to the conclusion that if a parent who kills their children is considered mentally ill or not, one has to consider the factors and motives that contribute as to why parents commit filicide versus parents who commit neonaticide.

The book gives a general overview of the field of forensic science. The sections of the book include “The Scene of the Crime; Working the Scene--The Evidence; Working the Scene of the Body Human;

     The storyteller goes to great lengths to conceal the murder. First, he dismembers the body, collecting the blood in the bathtub so that there would be no blood stains anywhere. He then buries the body parts under the planks on the floorboards in such a way that "no human eye--not even his--could have detected anything wrong." The storyteller says this

Society is daily faced with the inexcusable uncivilized crime of abandoning children. This is one of those felonies committed against the human the race which is fueled by contributing socio-economic factors which includes poverty, the breakdown of traditional kinship support systems, HIV/Aids, urbanization, rape and statutory rape as well as the political influence as

In this paper, I will be discussing Filicide, which is defined as the killing of one’s child, in the case maternal filicide, it would be the killing of a child by his or her mother. I will be covering the nature of this type of crime and how it directly relates to the experiences of women. As well as what aspects limits our understanding and why we, society as whole need to be devoid attention to this matter due to the how severe and morally wrong it is in nature. In addition, I will be also covering the responses to this issue by government through legislation and the practices or programs our criminal justice system utilizes in response to this crime. As well as efforts made by advocacy organization in order to find ways to address and bring

The Webster’s dictionary defines a parent as a person who brings up and cares for another. Since a parent is defined as such, what would push a child to murder their parents? A child who murders their parents can also be called a Parricide. The dreadful behavior of killing one’s parents is most commonly seen as a legal or clinical problem but not both. Legal explanations are frequently based on reports from forensic settings (i.e. ballistics, and evidence). Clinical descriptions are based on similar case studies on the same demographics, psychotic diagnosis, and bio-psychosocial analysis. One thing that can be identified between almost all parricides, is that there was a parent child conflict(s) that

Fourteen year old Stefan Pakreeah was lured to a local park by one of his friends where he was beaten with a hammer and stabbed repeatedly. Pakreeah’s parents claim the murderer was