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Good Friday, 1973, Kemper planned on waiting for his mother to come home from a party, but accidently fell asleep. He was awakened by the sound of his mother in another room. He then entered her room to find her sitting in bed reading a paperback book. She saw him walk in and said, “I suppose you’re going to want to sit up all night and talk now,” to which he replied, “No, good night,” and beat her to death with a claw hammer. He decapitated her then used her head for sex and a dart board. Once he was done with her, he called her friend, Sally Hallett, over to the house. Upon arrival Kemper strangled her and left the scene and evidence behind. The entire time Kemper was planning and performing the murder of his mom, the memories of the abuse, humiliation, and unfairness that his mother had left him were stuck in his head. His mother had left a permanent scar on young Kemper’s ego which led to his horrific murders.

In the early morning of August 4th, 1892 Andrew and Abby Borden were found murdered and mutilated in there home in Fall River, Massachusetts.

	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

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

Though Lizzie had plenty of motive to kill her parents, she was not the only person suspected of killing Mr. and Mrs. Borden. Possibly the two were killed by a token mystery novel cliche, the maid. Bridget “Maggie” Sullivan was the Borden housemaid at the time of the murders. Other than Lizzie, Ms. Sullivan was the only other person in the residence while the crimes took place. Surprisingly, not much time was spent in investigating Ms. Sullivan as a suspect in the “Borden Axe Murder” case so she was quickly dismissed as the murderer, possibly giving her the chance to pin the blame on Lizzie ( ). Ms. Sullivan’s testimony was critical in the prosecution of Lizzie Borden since she was the only other person at the residence while the murders were taking place ( ). Many authors and historians believe that Bridget Sullivan was the guilty party. At the time both murders were thought to have occurred, Ms. Sullivan was supposed to working around the house, cleaning windows ( ). According to Lizzie’s testimony, Lizzie was downstairs in the parlor room during the time her mother was being murdered upstairs ( ). The theory that Bridget snuck to the top floor then silently attacked and murdered Mrs. Borden could have been possible. Also, If Lizzie’s testimony is to be trusted even further, Lizzie was supposed to be outside in the estate’s barn for twenty to thirty minutes during the time her

Many people have obsessions, but most do not take it to the extremes that they kill because of it. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” represents the blindness that happens when someone takes an obsession to the extreme and ignores the consequences of inept actions that result in deadly consequences. Aylmer, the husband, becomes obsessed with a “crimson birthmark” shaped like a small hand that is on the cheek of Georgiana, the wife. Alymer view the birthmark as a stain to his sensibilities and views on what is a “perfect” form based on his egotistic view of his wife. Unfortunately, his decent into madness sucks up even his wife into a mucky pool full of fear and self-loathing. She does this all just to please her husband, which ultimately results in her death. More then once I have heard that obsessed people are evil. Obsession by itself does not make a person evil. Obsession to the point that safety and life are put at risk is

Between 7:15 and 7:30 last night a person, by the name of Paul Dudden, in this residence, took his last breath behind the screen in the library as he was being brutally murdered. One thing’s for sure the murderer knew what they wanted. They wanted Paul Dudden gone. When Paul Dudden took his last look at this cruel world, the murderer looked down and smiled at their accomplishment. Unfortunately for the murderer, it is clear who this malevolent person is. He was no other that Mr. Parsons himself. After interviewing Mrs. Parsons, one of the Ellis’ car went into the driveway drove by the one and only Amy Ellis at 8:00. Now here’s the thing, why didn’t Mr. Parson see the car as well? As the car drove in, Mr. Parsons wasn’t in his house at all.

The reader’s introduction to the main character is that of a violent act, where he defaces a car that is implied to have been stolen in front of a car park worker. There is no explanation for why he acted in such fashion, or why the attendant “ducked his head away” and ignored him when he first caught eyes with the narrator. The reader at this point can assume that the narrator has a history of violence in this society, but it is unclear why he has gone unpunished for such acts, and more so it is unclear what his motivation behind his

The murders showed no sign of struggle and no sign of a break in. Andrew Borden was found dead on his couch. According to Stephen Christianson of Encyclopedia.com “When a policeman, followed

The final nail in the coffin for Lizzie Borden was that she was seen burning a blue dress the days following the murder. Alice Russell, a family friend who stayed at the Borden house after the murder occurred, stated in court that she saw Lizzie Borden burning a blue dress after the murder occurred. Lizzie claimed that it had old paint on it and that's why she burned it. A statement that backed up Alice Russell's statement was that Maggie Sullivan claimed that Lizzie was wearing a blue dress the morning of the murders. If she murdered her parents in that blue dress that would explain why she was burning the dress and why the police couldn’t find any blood on

being the envious person that he was. Even though Cory didn’t want to be the antagonist,

Aylmer’s craving to make his wife Georgiana perfect is destined to fail because perfection cannot be found on earth and only found in heaven. Aylmer obsesses about the birthmark that is on his wife for an extensive time that it actually starts to inconvenience him. For Aylmer, it symbolizes mortality and sin and comes to mast over Georgiana’s beauty in his cluttered mind. Consequently, her tiny imperfection, which is only a birth-mark, is all he can see and is so prominent to him. The desire for perfection not only kills Georgiana inside and out, but it also ruins her husband. Aylmer starts to break down because his desire to create the ideal woman becomes such a fixation that it prevents him from seeing all the good his wife has to over him and the world. Nevertheless, Georgiana says that she will risk her life for him and have the birthmark erased. Aylmer is very confident about it but ends up killing her in the process, emotionally and

The unconventional wording implies that Jennet’s father has become obsessed with the process

Portrayed as spiritual and intellectual in contrast with his crude laboratory assistant Aminadab, Aylmer becomes disturbingly obsessed with a birthmark on his wife’s countenance. The plot of the short story revolves around the man’s attempt in removing the mark, which results in the death of Georgiana. In the very beginning of the story, the audience discovers through the narration that Aylmer views his wife’s birthmark as more than a congenital, benign irregularity on the skin. In reality, the primary reason why he becomes severely obsessed with the birthmark is because in his eyes, the mark symbolizes something. Aylmer proceeds to further clarify his inner thoughts by replying to his wife, “This slightest possible defect, which we hesitate whether to term a defect or a beauty, shocks me, as being the visible mark of earthly imperfection” (Mays 340). Although Georgiana is initially mortified and even goes as far to question the existence of the marriage between them, the narration later sheds light and explains that the precise reason why Aylmer is excessively bothered with the birthmark is because he regards Georgiana as virtually the embodiment of perfection. As a consequence, perceiving a flaw on his wife’s image that clashes with the concept of her beauty inevitably leads him to feel aggrieved and begin to judge the birthmark as a dangerous blemish residing on her skin.

Rather it is the old man’s that is so unsettling. Any time the eye looked upon him his. It is that eye by which he is consumed and that eye that sends him into madness. It pushes him to wish to never have to look upon, or be looked upon by, that eye again. His solution, in what seems a rational choice to him, is to kill the old man. With a similar precision as the Montresor took in “The Cask of Amontillado”, the man in “The Tell-Tale Heart” has devoted himself to the perfect method to dispatch the old man.