The police arrived to the crime scene after multiple phone calls saying there is a unresponsive person lying on the side of the road. They initially preserved it to be a car crash, until they were at the scene: "Initially, they were told a woman was lying outside a car; they thought they were being sent to a crash. Police at first speculated it might have been a crank call, but the officers headed back north. But when they arrived, Bidou realized it was no crank call and no car accident. Instead, it was a sinister crime scene" (Lake Herman). The police came across the scene to find that David Faraday was still faintly breathing, however, he died on the way to the hospital. “Their body were found approximately at 11:20 pm, just a few minutes after the murder occurred. David Faraday was found with a bullet hole on the left side of his head and Betty Lou Jensen was found 28 feet away from the car and was shot a few times” (Nobody In …show more content…
The police clearly knew that there was another person involved from the way the crime scene laid out. The investigators were confused because they could not find a motive for a person to gun down the innocent couple, “On the face of it there was no reason for the crime. There was no theft. There was no sexual molestation. There was no murder weapon. Somebody else had been involved. But the gravel was too frozen to show footprints or even fresh tire tracks” (Lake Herman). Sadly, December 20th, 1968 a record for the coldest day was broken and this resulted in the ground being hard, so no footprints or tire tracks were shown. The crime scene led the police and investigators nowhere because nothing was left behind to point them in the right direction in
Now I am going to give you some background on this subject. The police officers had a lot of suspects and a lot of evidence and the evidence pointed to a lot of people, but then there was evidence that pointed to someone else. The crime scene was not sealed off like it should have been to preserve the evidence. The room in the basement that John found JonBenet in was checked twice by police
When others found the scene, it wa clear that there were fingerprints all over the car and the trauma to their bodies was not that related to a car accident. One of the murderers, Ciriaco de la Rosa recalled that fateful
He was found lying on the couch with blood on his shirt. In this case, his wife was murdered as well. She was murdered in the bedroom by several hits in the back of the head. The back of her head was hit nineteen times. In conclusion, the bodies were so damaged that they were at first unrecognizable.
In the year 2010, 26-year-old Kenzie Houk was found murdered in her bed. Kenzie was shot in her head. Kenzie was also eight months pregnant when she was murdered (nydailynews.com). The person who found the body was her 4-year-old daughter. When the police officers arrived at the scene, they searched to see if anybody broke into the house. The police officers were unable to find any force entry. The police officers even thought it was a possibility that Kenzie ex-boyfriend could of committed the murder, but they were unable to connect him to the murder. Eventually, the police officers found out that the murderer was none other then the 11-year-old Jordan Anthony Brown.
Burglary was the first thought for a motive, but that theory was quickly abandoned. Nothing had been taken from the house. Also, once police had a chance to sniff around and question friends and neighbors, they zeroed in on a strong candidate for the killer.
What was believed to be a kidnapping of 6-year-old, JonBenet Ramsey, ended up to be the discovery of her dead body by her father in the basement, after multiple hours of searching in Ramsey's house (Saferstein, 2015.) A major issue with the case was that the house was not sealed off, and multiple people, including their pastor, were able to go to and from with no complications (Saferstein, 2015.) In defense of the police team, in the beginning, they had believed it to be a kidnapping with a note and all, and in the end, it turned out to be a murder. Of course the media's eyes immediately turned to the parents but one of the theories is, "The current theory stands that an intruder, with possible paedophilic motives, was responsible for her death, and while this has become a widely accepted working theory, there are several pieces of evidence that simply don’t add up" (Team, 2016.) The ransom note was 2 and a half pages long, her body was found in the basement of the families home, the cause of death showed strangulation and a blow to the head an hour or so before, and also pineapple that she had eaten recently with a bowl that led to her brother's fingerprints were all clues that didn't add up (Team, 2016.)
The Boulder Police Department’s investigation was not conclusive and left more questions than answers. Also, upon advice from their attorney, the Ramsey’s refused to be interviewed initially. This further let the barriers that hindered a good outcome. All of these unanswered questions led to a media frenzy and speculation that fueled public speculation.
On Thursday last week, two murders have taken place. Myrtle Wilson, wife to a small garage owner, was hit and killed instantly by a speeding car two evenings ago. She had run out into the middle of the street for unknown reasons when the ‘death car’ hit her. The car was allegedly a yellow or green color and was guessed to be traveling around 40 miles per hour when it hit Myrtle. This car was coming from New York; it swerved a little but did not stop when passing
Throughout this case, many pieces of evidence came up “missing” and many other people who should have been suspects went without being questioned at all. For example, a problem arose at a local Bojangles, the same night of the murders. The manager working at the time called the police, reporting that a black man had stumbled into the restaurant. He was bleeding and mumbling the manger said, and instead of a report being filed, the working officer found it would be much more convenient for her if she just
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?
Upon arriving on scene, I observed a body laying on the ground in the driveway of the residence, near the road. The body was laying behind a red dodge truck.
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.
The case that I will be discussing is the cold murder case of Lucille Johnson from Salt Lake City, Utah. Unfortunately, at the time of the murder the investigators didn’t take certain evidence serious in the case. The investigators thought that it was just evidence that had no meaning. None the less, it ended up convicting the murderer, John Sansing.
“The shot made a deafening blast, as the bullet entered David’s head blowing it apart” (Wark, 5). With David out of the way, the killer turned his attention back to Betty. “He pursued her through the woods, his gun drawn and shot her five times in the back from less than ten feet away”(Wark,5). David was still alive, but Betty was dead. In the ambulance David was able to give the police an account of the events that had taken place, but he died shortly after from his wounds. Upon investigation, the police came up with nothing, and ruled the murder a random homicide.
There were no solid proof on the crime scene which link the murder to Bundy, Because the room has been washed away to overcome the chances of being caught. Accuracy was a great weapon of Ted Bundy, & the detectives supposed that Lisa Levy and Martha Bowman were one of recent Bundy’s victims. Though their assumptions were not a solid indication for a