After the death of her grandmother Wuornos ran away from home to live her life on the streets and turned to the prostitution skills she had learned in adolescence to survive (Jensen, 2011). The rest of Wuornos’s life would be spent roaming the highways, living the life of a prostitute in poverty, abusing drugs and alcohol. It was in 1981, Innes (2006) reports that Wuornos met Tyria Moore and it would be this lesbian relationship lasting for four and a half years that would be the most significant romantic relationship for Wuornos. Throughout their relationship Wuornos continued to work as a prostitute. It was during this time that Wuornos fatally shot Richard Mallory (51), and then stole his money, possessions and car. Throughout her trial
In this quote, “the other” Wes Moore’s mother, Mary, is telling her son and older brother of Wes, Tony, that Wes has already been arrested and taken by the police. Wes was arrested for shooting another teenaged boy named Ray after Ray beat up Wes since Alicia was at his house. This quote is true both literally and metaphorically, as Wes seems “gone” with his arrest, possible parenthood, and dealing of drugs have led him to the losing of his freedom and family. This quote fits quite well with chapter five “Lost”.
In 2001, Louis Guccione Jr. repeatedly stabbed his newly-ex girlfriend, Dana Roppo, when she requested a breakup. In her victim impact statement in the courtroom, she pleaded to the jury the first sentences that Art Barnum, a Chicago Tribune reporter copied and put into a 2003 edition of the newspaper and that I now began the presentation with.
The “other Wes’s mother, Mary, never finished college, and her older son lived with his dad (Moore 18, 26). She wasn’t as concerned with how her son did in school, but when he failed 6th grade and had to repeat it, she decided to move her family to Baltimore County (Moore 57). Just before that, Wes found her “stash” of marijuana in her closet, and after smoking it, made the decision to start selling it (Moore 59-62). Where Joy made every effort to keep her son out of the drug business, Mary was directly related to her son getting involved with drugs. She made them available to him, and was the source of his first drugs. She is the reason he chose to start selling drugs. Their mothers led by example, which in turn, directed them onto the life paths they took.
Their marriage annulled shortly after, and she returned to Florida. Because of the horrible history Wuornos had with men all her life, she tried her luck with women. At a biker bar in Daytona Beach, Florida, she met Tyria Moore, who later moved in with her and together they shared a romantic relationship. Wuornos supported them with her earnings as a prostitute, and she also stole to pawn the stolen items. The couple did not have many friends, but Wuornos claimed to be in love with Moore, so she was fine with not having any other companions. She wanted to be able to support Moore, so she did anything she had to do to be able to support them, even prostitute, which Moore disapproved of, but Wuornos never stopped. Moore was never involved in any of the murders, although she did claim to know about the murder of Richard Mallory, but she did not turn Wuornos into the police. If Moore would have known about all of the murders, she would have felt obligated to turn Wuornos in, so she decided not to ask, even if she became suspicious throughout their relationship.
Nicole LaFreniere drove drunk and killed 3 people. She was just starting off her career. She had finish cosmetology school and had just gotten a job at a salon in Livermore, California. She decided to let loose and celebrate her accomplishments. She went to the Livermore Saloon bar with a couple of friends, Kyle and Jennifer and ran into some other friends she knew at the bar. She was 20 years old with a fake ID in order to buy some drinks but the bar did not ID her. She had a couple of mixed drinks, had a shot of Jagermeister and downed some Vodka. She then started dancing to the music and just having fun. Her and her friends then walked down the street to
They did not arrest her on murder charges at that time because they had no murder weapon nor did they have Tyria Moore in custody. On January 10 Tyria was found living with her sister in Pennsylvania. She was interviewed and returned to Florida with the authorities the next day to assist in the investigation. Authorities wanted Tyria to illicit a confession from Aileen for the murders to make their case airtight. On the morning of January 16 authorities had their confession. (Chesler (1993.)
The article I read this week was “MS-13 gang member narrated video of teen’s killing, FBI agent testifies” by Justin Jouvenal. Jouvenal discusses the murder of 15-year-old Damaris Reyes Rivas in Virginia. Shortly before her death, Damaris left her home in Gaithersburg, MD and became involved with the gang MS-13. The gang order Rivas death because she had lured an MS-13 leader, Sosa Rivas, to his death. First, Damaris was lured to Lake Accotink Park and was interrogated and beaten by MS-13 members. MS-13 members murdered her with a knife and large wooden stake, while Jose Cerrato captured this scene on video. The video was taken to send it to MS-13 leaders. 17 year-old Jose Cerrato captured the video so he could demonstrate his willingness to
On the late evening of June 12th, 1994, a fellow Brentwood neighbor went to investigate why a nearby dog was constantly howling when they discovered the grisly murder scene(Geis & Bienen, 2016). The victims, 35-year-old Nicole Brown Simpson and 25-year-old Ronald Goldman, were violently stabbed to death with a knife in the walkway of Nicole’s home(Geis & Bienen, 2016). Nicole Brown Simpson was the
soon mysteriously killed after she had spoken out to him. She had been labeled at her
" On July 29, 1994, seven year old Megan Kanka, from Hamilton Township, New Jersey, was walking home after playing at a friends house. She had almost reached her front door when Jesse Timmendequas, 33, a landscaper who had lived across the street for a year invited her over to pet his new puppy ( Richard 1 )." " When Megan followed him inside, he led her to an upstairs bedroom, strangled her unconscious with his belt, raped her and then asphyxiated her to death with a plastic bag. Timmendequas then placed Megan’s body in a tool box, drove it in his pick-up truck to a near-by soccer field and dumped her body in some bushes ( Jerome 1 )." This, and the tragic murder of Amanda Wengert, was how the name was developed. But in my paper I did not discuss the murder and raping of Amanda Wengert.
Charles Maddox was born November 12, 1934 in Cincinnati, Ohio. His mother was Kathleen Maddox, she was a prostitute and an alcoholic, and only 16 years old when she had him. She later married William Manson, who adopted Charles giving him the Manson last name. It was said that his mother once traded him for a pitcher of beer to a woman that couldn’t have children. His uncle had to go track down the women to get him back. Charles spent time in a boy’s school then on the streets doing petty crimes to survive. By 1952 Manson had spent more time in prison than he had out of prison. In Charles Manson probation reports it described him as, “suffering from a marked degree of rejection, instability, psychic trauma, and constantly striving for status and securing some kind of love. Other descriptions included dangerous, unpredictable, and safe only under supervision.”(Biography Channel 2013.) In August of 1969 Manson gathered his group of most loyal family members to do the massacres. The first murder took place August 9, 1969 on Ceilo Drive in Beverly Hills at the home of Roman Polanski’s, and his wife Sharon Tate. The victims of this crime were Sharon Tate, Wojciech Frykowshi his partner Abigail Folger, Jay Sebring. There was also an 18 year old boy a friend of the gardeners who was walking down the driveway when he saw the
“Rick Rossetti murdered in his Miami Penthouse!” the Daily Times headline read three weeks later. The other newspapers carried similar headlines. Businessman Rick Rossetti had been found murdered in his well guarded penthouse while on a holiday in Miami. None of his men knew
Being the subject his stepfather’s violent physical abuse, Richard had acquired a violent nature early on in his life. He carried this violence from his childhood to his marriage with Shirley. Richard would abuse both his wife and her mother. The abuse his wife endured was both physical and mental, which would often include being raped at knife point up to several times in a day. Richard was also fond of kissing and fondling other women in front of Shirley, forcing her to watch. Their marriage was short lived and the two separated. Under his mother’s recommendation, Richard became a live-in babysitter for a 29-year-old woman, who was a bartender at his favorite local bar, Ginny’s. One month later, his wife filed for divorce. In January of 1966, the same month of the divorce, Richard stabbed another man at Ginny’s. The fight was brought about by his anger at the discovery of his ex-wife’s remarriage after only 2 days of the granted divorce. These events were just the beginning of his violent streaks and became the foundation to his ultimate crime that made him infamous.
In addition, having previously been kicked out of her home at the age of fourteen, Wuornos was forced to “hitchhike and engage in sex work to survive” (Biography.com 3). In order to obtain her unfulfilled love from her parents, Aileen attempted on being appreciated through being a prostitute. This, especially, is the part where her criminal behavior is due to nurture. Because she did not have any normal, nonalcoholic parents, Aileen did poorly in school, causing her to drop out after she was kicked out of her home. Without education, she was left ignorant and given little to no jobs. The career of a prostitute was the only future she had; however, due to her grandfather, this career even left Aileen afraid. Her hapless childhood experiences,
However, I do not believe the early age behavior was causation for murder. I believe murder was an end to getting what she wanted. She was growing older, had no skills for a decent job, her looks and appeal as a prostitute was going down, and supporting