Dorothy Simmons Murder

On January 16, 1991, respondent litigant, Jose Trinidad Loza, shot four individuals from the group of his better half, Dorothy Jackson. The casualties were shot in the head at short proximity while they dozed in their home in Middletown, Ohio. Loza shot Jackson's mom, Georgia Davis; her brother, Gary Mullins; and her two sisters, Cheryl (Mullins) Senteno and Jerri Luanna Jackson. Mullins passed on very quickly from his injury; Davis and Senteno survived a few hours before kicking the bucket. Jerri Jackson, six months pregnant at the season of the shooting, kicked the bucket on January 31, 1991.

	Furthermore, the prosecution never proved the weapon was an axe. When Officer Mullaly asked if there were hatchets in the house, Lizzie replied with, "Yes, they are everywhere." Bridget and Mullaly went down to the basement and found four hatchets: one rusty claw-headed hatchet, two that

His family’s confidence never dwindled; time after time, they joined a crusade to save Richard’s soul. Tensions began to increase when Aunt Addie enrolled Richard in the religious school where she taught. Labeled as a black sheep, Richard continued to defy the iron fist of his family. The conflict between Aunt Addie and Richard exploded when he was accused of eating walnuts in class. Richard knew the boy in front of him was guilty, but he abided by the “street code” and said nothing. Despite Richard’s denial, Aunt Addie did not conduct an investigation and immediately beat Richard in front of the class. After submitting to his aunt, he finally confessed the guilty suspect. Rather than to commend Richard for the truth, Aunt Addie attempted to beat him again after school. However, brandishing a knife, Richard defended himself. He had stood up for his dignity and pride, something that was worth more to him than anything.

Susie Salmon who died December 6, 1973 was raped and killed by a very sick and twisted man when she was just fourteen. After school one day Susie decided to take a shortcut through a field of corn to her house. Her sick neighbor known as Mr. Harvey had dug out an underground shelter. This shelter is where he would very soon take Susie to rape and kill. As she was going through the field she noticed Mr. Harvey but didn’t know but she had recognized got her into the hole and kills her. She then ends up in even where she finds out she has her own self contained heaven all to her-self.

On Saturday, December 1, 1900, a man named John Hossack was killed in his sleep with a hatchet by his wife, Margaret Hossack. The story told by Margaret was that she had heard what sounded like two boards banging together and by that time the attacker had fled and she didn’t catch a glimpse of him. The next thing she saw was her extremely wounded husband, John, who had a five-inch cut into his head and a fractured skull. A doctor, who came and examined John, and said there was no hope and John died the next morning. As an investigation started, a burglary was thought of as the first motive but the idea flawed because nothing was stolen so the idea was quickly abandoned. In the 4 days between the murder and the funeral, the police talked to

In The Murder of Helen Jewett, Patricia Cohen uses one of the most trivial murders during the 1800's to illustrate the sexiest society accommodations to the privileged, hypocritical tunneled views toward sexual behavior, and the exploitation of legal codes, use of tabloid journalism, and politics. Taking the fact that woman was made from taking a rib from man was more than biblical knowledge, but incorporated into the male belief that a woman's place is determined by the man. Helen had the proper rearing a maid servant, but how did she fall so far from grace. Judge Weston properly takes credit for rearing her with the proper strictness and education. Was Helen seduced at an early age and introduced to sexual perversions that were more

I encountered a peculiar individual on the sidewalks this evening. I can recall that “ The girl stopped and looked as if she might pull back in surprise (Page 4)”. Nervousness shook my body as this mysterious girl applied a sense of mystery to herself. She asked me a variety of questions that i firmly responded too as I soon realized that she was our new neighbor. She was an odd one, she even described herself as crazy, the young ones these days.

Based on Sui-Tas testimony we are told that he took the axe. However when the investigation had started and they went to search for the missing items everything was there except the axe. The axe was not recovered on the first searching of Tom’s house, yet when they were told to go look for more evidence they found the axe in with no problems. This is odd, how when you first searched the house not find a very particular axe in a small house, yet when you go back there the second time you find it? This has me wonder if someone within the investigation had planted the axe to frame Tom. Furthermore, looking at the testimonies of multiple people no one was able to clearly identify the axe. Many people had thought that they had seen William with it before but there were too many different stories of the axe to be sure the one that was found in Tom’s house was the one that was stolen. Therefore the axe in terms of opposing interpretations should not have been used as evidence against Tom. Another point that was added by William Smithe who was observing the trial also makes a convincing case that the axe shown in court was not the same as the one everyone was talking about. William Smithe had written in to the British Colonist expaingin why the axe was not Tom’s. He explained his case as shown “For instance, the murdered man was proved to have been a left handed person; his knife, with which he was eating his food when he was shot, was in his left hand, and an axe was shown in Court, and a certain spring in the handle pointed out to the jury as indicating the axe to have been used by a left handed man. Now, it is well known to choppers and men accustomed to see an axe used, that a left-handed person will almost invariably swing his axe from the right side; and an axe that had been swung from the right side would have had a spring the reverse of that

About a block from the house Ralph saw the two foot patrol cops step out of Alvord’s Market. They waited for him to pass then flowed behind him. Ralph was worried but talked himself down. He had packaged the gin to look like bread and the house was just around the corner, besides he didn’t recognize them and they likely didn’t recognize him. He got to the house and went through the gate and around to the side door and knocked; no answer. He knocked again and stepped back to make sure the cops had passed. They were standing just

They brought her down to the station to be questioned. There were two people in this tight, dark, eerie room. The police and Miss strangeworth stared intensely at each other for what felt like hours. It was silence but you could hear Miss Strangeworth crying of fear. The officer began to ask simple questions. He started with the ‘who’ of this investigation. “I am the only one writing these letters” she confesses “But I have a letter on almost everyone in this small town.” The officer asks for how long she has been writing these letters

After calling the police, I dug up the rest of the bones and made sure I got all of them. When I was done finding all of the bones, I looked around the crime scene to see if there were any clues as to what happened to the victim. I found a rusty knife under a pile of leafs. I told the police that there was a rusty knife in a pile of leafs and that it could be the cause of death.

John Tyler, age 28, was shot and killed with a handgun, fired by Jeff “Ace” Johnson, on July 16th. The shooting occurred after an argument between Jeff (age 20 and a member of the Cobras street gang) and Jerry Knight (age 22, member of the Jukers street gang and cousin of the deceased). The accused may be convicted of either murder (the crime of unlawfully killing a person especially with malice aforethought) or voluntary manslaughter (the unlawful killing of a human being without malice). After reviewing all the facts of the case, I have come to the conclusion that Jeff “Ace” Johnson is guilty of voluntary manslaughter.

“She stretches her gentle hand out to him in agonized entreaty, crying piteously, “Oh, Louis, Louis, Louis!” He raises the axe and brings it down on her bright head with one tremendous blow and she sinks without a sound and lies in a heap.” In a variety of their literary pieces, Mark Twain, Celia Thaxter, and Dorothy Kilgallen, all explore the notion of the male murderer. Why is it specifically a male murderer and what is it that was leading all these men to choose to sacrifice the people around them? One of the murders, which is discussed by Celia Thaxter, is that of a man by the name of Louis Wagner and the only indication of him being a dangerous man is when Thaxter writes that “there were vague rumors that his past life had not been without difficulties.” In this tale, he attempted to murder three gentlewomen when they were without their husband’s protection for seemingly no reason other than to enjoy the pleasure of the kill. This is an

As I drove downtown to visit Carol and Lee, I looked for a back way back in which would mean that I wouldn’t be seen. I wandered around for a while, eventually finding their house situated a few hundred yards from a McDonald on Bragg Boulevard and saw an alleyway behind the restaurant. I went to McDonald, where I waited a while before exiting into the back alley to see if I was followed. When I was convinced that it was all clear, I leaped over the fence into Carol’s backyard and up to the door.

No immediate suspects were apparent and a tip line with a $8,000.00 reward was initiated. The murder weapon would later be recovered and turned over to authorities by a citizen that had picked it up from the side of the road; a folding lock blade knife with the appearance of blood on the blade.